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> no operating system has a universal style across all native apps Imo, an app that isn’t using Cocoa (or carbon for older apps) widgets on macOS isn’t “native
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
> no operating system has a universal style across all native apps
Imo, an app that isn’t using Cocoa (or carbon for older apps) widgets on macOS isn’t “native”. If you just use the default widget set on macOS, your app will have a consistent style with every other native app. If you use Qt, Swing, Electron, etc., your app will look out of place and break in ways that annoy at least some of your users.
- agos 3y agothere's more than twenty years of examples of macOS apps using Cocoa and Carbon and being inconsistent with the rest of the OS, iTunes being the most egregious