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What about chrome, firefox, vlc, qbittorrent, gvim, abiword, maya, sublime, sumatra pdf, obs ...

• alkonaut 8y ago
  Browsers: basically no UI, except for the browser engine. Obviously has reason to use a full browser engine (unlike a small electron app). VLC etc: looks terrible. Sublime: looks surprisingly good. Took a ton of effort though. Perhaps a more appropriate list is Fast, good looking, cross plattform, reasonable effort: pick any 3.
  • CyberDildonics 8y ago
    > VLC etc: looks terrible. I've never heard anyone say that VLC or qbittorrent or obs look terrible. Seems like a way to shift the goal posts and have some sort of ephemeral impossible standard of 'looking good'. There are plenty of GUI frameworks that are very fast and perfectly simple to use.
    • alkonaut 8y ago
      It’s obviously subjective. My bar for “not terrible” is basically native look or some cross platform web look that skips the widgets (better for design and consistency, worse for productivity and usability). The horrible ones are the custom rendered not-quite-native ones that look like 90’s apps (basically nearly all Gtk, Swing apps and similar). It’s not that they can’t be nicely laid out, productive or snappy they just look horrible in terms of design and polish.