On Monday 05 January 2009 21:20:04 Filip Gruszczyński wrote: > > Qt applications look as other applications on user desktop - they use > > user choosen themes and colors. On GNOME with qgtkstyle they can use > > GTK+ style and look like any other GNOME app. You should avoid forcing > > application look, as user may want to use different set of colors or > > theme :) > > I understand that well. I am just afraid that my application looks > dull and boring. It's supposed to be a tool for rpg enthusiasts, and > while I will never be able to compete with professional tools from > Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro actually), which can hire artists and > pimp their apps, I would like to try make mine a bit more appealing.
Speaking as a user (not of RPG stuff like this but other tools) I absolutely HATE it when they try and make their app "stand out" by violating all of the design guides for $PLATFORM. Usually they make the app significantly harder to use and it doesn't really look any better after you've sat and used it for a week. Worse still is when they try and emulate the look of some real world device - "oh I am making a media player, I'll ignore the fact the PC has a much better display and input device and make it look like a CD player!" If you absolutely think it's going to make a difference at least have a "normal" skin that looks like it's supposed to ;) As you can guess this is one of my pet peeves.. :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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