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Not to state the obvious, but there are very few types of desktop programs where not having a native look and feel is OK. Especially when UI looks as unique as
by huhtenberg 12y ago
Not to state the obvious, but there are very few types of desktop programs where not having a native look and feel is OK. Especially when UI looks as unique as ImgUI does. Games, demos and, perhaps larger application software, like Blender, that are meant for prolonged continuous use and that run full-screen.
ImgUI is a very nice engineering feat, but it's not terribly practical.
- Karunamon 12y agoIt's sold and presented as an engineering tool. Why does something simple that only the developers are supposed to see need UI chrome bloat on top of it? >ImGui is designed to allow programmers to create "content creation" or "debug" tools (as opposed to tools for the average end-user). It favors simplicity and thus lacks certain features normally found in more high-level libraries, such as string localisation.
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- clarry 12y agoYet there are systems on which "native look and feel" is not even a thing, because they are not wed to a particular toolkit or theme. On my laptop, xterms (with my custom colors) are the closest thing to native look, since they're what I look at 80% of the time, and they ship with the OS. I'm happy that applications which need more advanced graphical features do not attempt to look and feel like xterm.