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Qt is strongly associated to the KDE project, which takes it's heritage from CDE et Al., which predates Windows a fair amount. They didn't really copy Windows,

Qt is strongly associated to the KDE project, which takes it's heritage from CDE et Al., which predates Windows a fair amount. They didn't really copy Windows, and actually did a lot before Windows and still do many things Windows can't. Also Qt is fairly independent of X11. It can operate fully independently from X and nowadays is basically agnostic to X. I suspect GTK is similar.

SeanLuke 5y ago
> CDE et Al., which predates Windows a fair amount Windows came out in 1985. CDE came out in 1993. > Also Qt is fairly independent of X11. You seem to be missing my complaint. By supporting multiple platforms, Qt is forced to support the lowest common denominator of all of them. Which means it's mediocre on all of them. Being cross-platform is fine: but no cross-platform systems can be held up as paragons of UI design excellence, not by a long shot.