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Thanks for the reply. Why does Transmission, for example, have a Mac app and a GTK app? They wanted a more polished Mac appaand gtk doesn't cut it?
by xwowsersx 7y ago
Thanks for the reply. Why does Transmission, for example, have a Mac app and a GTK app? They wanted a more polished Mac appaand gtk doesn't cut it?
- kn0where 7y agoYes, the Mac version of Transmission has a much more Mac-like UI that can’t entirely be replicated in something like GTK.
- solarkraft 7y agoTransmission is an interesting case, since they also have a version in Qt. Another example of an almost identical app written on a completely different platform would be the Fork git client with Cocoa and WPF.
- simion314 7y agoQt has a company behind so is more professional, better documentation, better cross platform support, less bugs. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0 is about the reasons Subsurface (a diving app started by Linus Torvalds) changed from GTK to Qt. Things might have improved from GTK I can't tell and also for simpler GUIs GTK might be enough.