On Friday, 29 November 2013 at 14:14:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-11-29 14:53, Chris wrote:
It's not about emulating. It's about innovating.
Qt tries to emulate the native toolkit, like it or not.
I don't think it's necessary to do that. You actually only need a
small set of widgets (text fields, buttons, menus, tabs etc.) The
rest is just for show (and to tie programmers to one particular
platform!). Swing is a good example. There are excellent UI apps
written in Swing that run everywhere. I use jEdit a lot (not
exclusively but again and again), and it has everything you need.
A big advantage is cross-platform consistency. I think this is an
issue that is under-estimated. This is why I like Textadept and
jEdit.
Native behavior can still be added as in
version (Windows) {
menuInWindow;
preferencesIn("Tools (or Edit?)");
}
version (OSX) {
menuNotInWindow;
preferencesIn("Preferences ...");
}
A small set of native interfaces (but no dependence on them!).
