On Thursday, 28 November 2013 at 13:30:53 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
Whatever API / bindings you use, please don't expose non-native
UIs to users (drawn from scratch, either mimicking the native
UI or not). They never completely integrate with the OS, subtly
deviating from the native behaviour in ways that range from
awkward to infuriating, and are always playing catch-up to the
latest OS changes.
This is pure Mac talk.
In Windows the "native" UI elements are so scarce and primitive,
that most apps with decent UI end up making their own. For
example, one would assume that UI elements that can be found in
MS Office are native and can be used in other apps. But they are
not, Office used its own UI library and never shared it with
anyone. Ribbon implementation that comes with recent Visual
Studio is a completely different implementation made by custom
drawing, mimicking the look of Office. Actually, there are even
several different implementations, for different languages.
Relying purely on native controls leads nowhere.
And Linux notion of "native" is already discussed and destroyed
before me.
