language_fan wrote: > > Look, this is what I get on Win32: > > http://johnbokma.com/textpad/select-a-file-dialog.png > > on Linux: > > http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/wp-content/uploads/20050710- > kdefilechooser.png > > on Java: > > http://www.dil.univ-mrs.fr/~garreta/docJava/tutorial/figures/uiswing/ > components/FileChooserOpenMetal.png > > You can probably see something that I have started to call 'consistency'. > Almost the same buttons and layouts on every platform. I immediately know > how it works. The same design has been there since Windows 95, if I > recall correctly. This is what many people have learned to live with. > > Now every time I see a gtk+/swt/dwt application I wonder where the heck > that unintuitive terrible piece of cr*p came: > > http://book.javanb.com/swt-the-standard-widget-toolkit/images/0321256638/ > graphics/14fig03.gif > > Native? It might very well use native binaries on my platform, but the > native feel ends there.
Um. It's even worse for me. Yours may not look native, but at least it doesn't look like the sh*t gtk gives me: http://post-boredom.net/filedialog/lolwut.png By comparison, my native look and feel (kde4): http://post-boredom.net/filedialog/muchbetter.png Qt gets this right.