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Yeah I agree with you. This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh. However, on Linux and Mac it's a littl

by yanks 10y ago

Yeah I agree with you. This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh. However, on Linux and Mac it's a little different. On Mac you'll see many apps compromise their branded style to look more Mac-like in style. Meanwhile on Linux most people use apps entirely fitted for their desktop environment, and then it's branded apps that look out of place. Windows attempted to make it's desktop more this way and failed with Windows 8.

spoiler 10y ago
> This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh. Yes an no. Windows is very versatile when it comes to design. However, if you just drag-n-drop elements in Visual Studio[1] or Qt, you get that "ugly" windows app. You'll notice plenty of Microsoft's own designs (as part of the OS, or as external apps) that look very well and fit in with the rest of the OS. There are also a few gems from 3rd parties. > On Mac you'll see many apps compromise their branded style to look more Mac-like in style. I agree with this, but I also believe it's an "optical illusion" in the sense that the GUI isn't very Mac itself, but it just borrows some design conventions used by the OS to make it easier for the user to understand the application. > Meanwhile on Linux most people use apps entirely fitted for their desktop environment, and then it's branded apps that look out of place. As a full-time (or at least 99%) Linux user, I tend to disagree with this. I know what you mean and you're sometimes right, but it's not really that black and white. a GTK app on Qt/Plasma won't look that nice unless you go out of your way to make it look nice (which is usually a lot of work), and open another GTK app and realise it looks broken, so you need to add more tweaks, and then you open the third app and give up. Same goes for KDE/Qt apps on Gnome.

by yanks 10y ago

spoiler 10y ago

> This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh. Yes an no. Windows is very versatile when it comes to design. However, if you just drag-n-drop elements in Visual Studio[1] or Qt, you get that "ugly" windows app. You'll notice plenty of Microsoft's own designs (as part of the OS, or as external apps) that look very well and fit in with the rest of the OS. There are also a few gems from 3rd parties. > On Mac you'll see many apps compromise their branded style to look more Mac-like in style. I agree with this, but I also believe it's an "optical illusion" in the sense that the GUI isn't very Mac itself, but it just borrows some design conventions used by the OS to make it easier for the user to understand the application. > Meanwhile on Linux most people use apps entirely fitted for their desktop environment, and then it's branded apps that look out of place. As a full-time (or at least 99%) Linux user, I tend to disagree with this. I know what you mean and you're sometimes right, but it's not really that black and white. a GTK app on Qt/Plasma won't look that nice unless you go out of your way to make it look nice (which is usually a lot of work), and open another GTK app and realise it looks broken, so you need to add more tweaks, and then you open the third app and give up. Same goes for KDE/Qt apps on Gnome.