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The truth is Mac user expect a Ui to look and feel native, otherwise you will be savaged in reviews, no matter how good your feature set. You last sentence tel
by rdsnsca 11y ago
The truth is Mac user expect a Ui to look and feel native, otherwise you will be savaged in reviews, no matter how good your feature set.
You last sentence tells me you have never used a QT app on a Mac, because it does not look and feel native.
- shaan7 11y agoThere are ones that don't (Quassel for example) and there are ones that do (VLC for one). At the end there is always some polish a developer needs to do, no matter how awesome the toolkit gets. If the developer won't do that, your app will look crap. And its not just OSX, you write your Qt app on Windows and then you run it on Linux, you will need some fine tuning to look perfect. I still prefer it over any other free IRC client for OSX simply because the feature set rocks.
- throwaway24242 11y agoBut do the users care? I do not think so. Otherwise a lot of famous websites would have native UI clients.
- yoz-y 11y agoThe iOS AppStore is exactly that. A bunch of native UIs for famous websites. E.g.: Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps... Precisely because users (at least iOS and Mac users) do care.
- throwaway24242 11y agoYeah, but mostly because these applications do not work properly on mobile devices (smaller screen size, too slow, etc.) and a native (in the sense of NOT browser-based) application makes sense. However my hypothesis is just, that the LOOK does not have to fit into the OS.
- jeffbax 11y agoAbsolutely. A QT/GTK/Java UI framework is immediately noticeable on OS X, and IMO even Windows though to a lesser extent. Doing native is without a doubt the right call.
- rhodysurf 11y agoIts not nearly as bad as you make it seem. Also you can embed objective c and native cocoa widgets in Qt apps so you cam make it as native as you want.