2014-06-30 17:12 GMT+02:00 Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabr...@kde.org>: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Davide DB <dbdav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> Could I ask some info on the GUI? >> >> I felt in love with Subsurface and its functionalities. >> Nevertheless opening the app at first glance you immediately notice >> that it has something weird. The look & feel has something different. >> It looks naive. I'm using it under Windows. > > What version of subsurface are you using and what are the naive > differences? we are trying hard to make it look consistent on the > platform, but since I'm 100% of the time in linux, it's hard to be > 100% precise.
4.1.379 >> I'm a seasoned Java programmer and I know nothing of QT libraries but >> it remember me the first Java UI at the beginning of year 2000. Today >> it's impossible to see differences from a Java UI and a Native UI. > > I Completely disagree here. "java" means nothing, you need to specify > what widget library you are using: AWT is completely different from > the system as Swing is also completely different from the system. QWT > however is more similar to the system because it uses the system > libraries. Sorry I was referring to Eclipse SWT that uses native calls but I've seen a lot of Swing apps with a good approximation. I read that QT uses native library on each platform. Anyway I'm not criticizing your work. I'm just telling that I spread this app among my dive buddies and all of them immediately told me that it doesn't seem a real Windows application. They asked me: "is it Java?" :) I'm using the Segoe UI font but it still doesn't look good. Maybe it's just the way in which the UI is designed and how widgets are layout. Really I don't know. >> One of the strange things is the UI font. Why I'm permitted to use a >> different font for the entire UI? > > Because the default windows font doesn't have all UTF8 characters that > we are using, and thus, we need to choose a font that has it. > >> I find useful having the opportunity to change font on tables and >> planner but menu and other widgets should standard Windows default >> fonts. Segoe UI since Vista and Tahoma for XP. > > They don't have ², ½ and other symbols, we can't use that. > How this problem is managed in a Windows native application? I have to ask to install Subsurface to a diver friend of mine who is Apple centric. Thanks -- Davide _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@hohndel.org http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
