On 2010-10-07 00:26, Robert Clipsham wrote:
On 06/10/10 23:03, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Ok, for me GTK is native because I use Linux and a GTK based desktop.
I know that there's a native GTK port for OSX/Quartz and I thought
GTK had
themes to look native on Windows?
It does make a vague attempt to look native on Windows, and is FAR
better in
that regard than, say, Swing, Winamp, Iron/Chrome, or pretty much
anything
from Apple. But there's still rather noticable differences in both
look (the
chunkiness I mentioned, just as one example) and in feel (particulary if
you're using GIMP). It's kinda like gluing a picture of some wings
overtop
the logo on a Ferrari and saying "See, it's an Aston Martin!"
Platform wise, GTK looks appalling on OS X, acceptable, if non-native on
Windows (I think there's a GTK theme that fixes this, not sure), and,
well, you use it on linux. As for Qt, it uses the native GUI for all the
platforms it works on (and if you don't like that there's a config tool
to make it look as ugly as you like :)).
I haven't seen any native looking Qt application on Mac.
From a developers standpoint, GTK is a lot more awkward to work with
(whether you're using the C interface or the GtkD wrapper), and is
generally not as nice to work with (based on a few hundred lines of code
that did very little, I switched to Qt at that point). Qt on the other
hand I've found a pleasure to work with from day 1, everything seems to
work as expected, and typically needs far less code.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
