My 2 cents: Our company develops a 400+ KLOC software, and ERP-like package. We have customers running it under Windows and Linux, sometimes both in the same environment side-by-side. We used Kylix at first, but some of our customers with mixed environments complained about the visual differences. They demanded a standard, consistent look and feel, regardless of the OS. A few of them are using the Windows version under Wine.
Back in 2005 we started to port from CLX to VCL in order to port to Lazarus. We wrote a blog on this effort: http://port2laz.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html The OPF is ported to Lazarus (with IFDEF's). We removed most of the 3rd-party components, the only remaining are Colrcal (TMonthCalendar does not work under Wine), AlignEdit (a simple TEdit with Alignment property) and Rave Reports. We still plan to migrate to a binary-native solution and Lazarus is a top candidate -- however, the current LCL approach of using multiple widget sets may bring us back the same visual differences. 2008/1/22, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > On 22/01/2008, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Well in all that time I've never met a single customer requiring a > > > "native look". On the contrary what I've always been asked for is a > > > "specific" look, and "specific" behavior. > > > > > > Amazingly, I have had the exact same experience. They want their > > product to stand out and not blend in and be unnoticed. Corporate > > colors in the application is also a big hit (and where LCL fell over). > > Well, I develop major database projects (in Delphi), and none of our > customers has ever asked for a specific look. So I would be the last > to ask this from lazarus. The thing I am looking for is portability. > > Most of our users hardly understand windows, let alone that they would > require a specific (and hence more confusing) look for our application. > > By keeping it close to the windows standards, we make the application > less frightful for them. And we have many thousands of such users. > > As in all things, it is dangerous to generalize your own experience. > > Michael. > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925
