On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:21:10 -0500 Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote: > most people who work with GTK don't do much work with Qt and vice > versa, so its a bit hard to answer "is it on par". OK. Not owning Mac, I also cannot discern how native are either Qt or GTK+. > this application is written in GTK and runs on Linux, BSD, OS X and > Windows: http://ardour.org/ Kudos to you and all devs working on such gorgeous app! > there are very few problems with GTK on OS X at this time. the ones > that exist are relatively minor, though for specific apps they might > be important. Good. > native appearance is not something that is important to my application > (pro-audio apps, even the ones from Apple, don't look like "apple" > apps). Good point. > support for native appearance is not particularly strong, > though there is a theme engine that will provide appearance close to > native Quartz. How easy is to deploy it? > recent versions of GTK now support platform-centric > modifier key behaviour for modifier+key bindings that are built into > GTK (so, for example, it will use Command-foo on OS X rather than > Ctrl-foo). That's nice to hear. > there is no particularly viable way to access "native" file selection > browsing, but given the way that apple has changed the way these > dialogs work several times themselves (some versions of OS X even come > with 2 different implementations with very different appearance), i > don't see this as a huge obstacle. Thank you very much for your input. Sincerely, Gour -- But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord. http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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