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> It may have been able to do something in the browser, with more effort, especially given that the "native app" here is an Electron app. Zoom is a C++ / Qt ap
by jcelerier 6y ago
> It may have been able to do something in the browser, with more effort, especially given that the "native app" here is an Electron app.
Zoom is a C++ / Qt app
- tyingq 6y agoAh, thanks. I was fooled by the presence of an Electron SDK from Zoom.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoOh, really?! But then, why does it suck so much at "window management" (especially the "chat" feature) ??
- jrockway 6y agoI don't think Qt has ever pretended to look native. I remember using KDE back in the early 2000s and most Qt apps that didn't explicitly integrate with KDE didn't look "native" either. The other desktop OSes are not even internally consistent -- look at Windows's "settings" vs. "control panel". Which one is native? The answer is they both are, sort of, but there are simply two UI kits bundled with the OS. One is deprecated, the other isn't ready yet. Qt is not going to solve that problem for you. (I'll also point out that even if you have a Win32ChatWidget in the library, that doesn't many anyone is going to use it. Zoom simply did a bad job implementing chat, which is why it's so bad. The UI toolkit library is neither the problem nor the solution. Caring about making chat good is the solution.)
- BlueTemplar 6y agoFor me this was never about the look, but about the features. Zoom chat isn't even able to do scrolling properly !!
- jcelerier 6y agohuh, what do you mean by that ?
- BlueTemplar 6y agoHave you already tried to paste long(ish) text into Zoom chat ? It literally starts going (hidden) outside of the window ! I've been using software since Windows 3.11, and I don't remember that ever happening before !!
- jcelerier 6y agoI sometimes paste semi-long code snippets and don't remember having anything weird happening