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Is it better to write one own's GUI in this case? I believe most toolkits have a way to add new controls, so it should be less work to add a knob to GtK, Qt or
by yoz-y 7y ago
Is it better to write one own's GUI in this case? I believe most toolkits have a way to add new controls, so it should be less work to add a knob to GtK, Qt or any other toolkit.
- fasterdom 7y agoTrue, you could write a new Qt control. Then you hit the second requirement: complete bitmap theming, many times of a skeuomorphic kind. This is extremely difficult to do in something like Gtk/Qt.
- torarnv 7y agoBehold, in all its skeuomorphic glory, the Qt styles example: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-styles-example.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-styles-example.html
- kazinator 7y agoThat looks almost exactly like Motif from 1991, but superimposed with a wood grain pattern.
- Narishma 7y agoLooks more like Windows 9x than Motif to me.
- kazinator 7y ago1. Motif came first. Among people who knew what Motif is, the look of Windows 95 was widely recognized as being very similar to Motif to the point of being a knock-off. 2. See the diamond-shaped radio buttons in the second example. :) 3. 3D embossed arrows on scroll bars.
- Narishma 7y agoOh, I didn't see the second screenshot. Yeah that one is more like what I remember Motif looking like. The first one though is definitely going for the Windows 95 look.
- jcelerier 7y agoQt has the following style that you can use, where you just have to ship the bitmaps for your controls in a predefined naming scheme : https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-imagine.html https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquickcontrols2-imagine.html