One of the accusations made against GNU/Linux is that there is no established "native" look-and-feel on it - GTK programs look different from Qt programs, JUCE programs look different from Qt programs, Tk programs and FLTK programs look different from everything else and so on. This claim isn't false, it's just that most of us simply don't care about it and often (unjustly) accuse those people of being superficial. But as the recent thread about blind users on libreplanet-discuss showed us, the widget toolkit used for a program can make a huge functional difference to some people. wxGtk gave me an idea: what if (optional) GTK3 backends were written for all other GUI toolkits (Tk, FLTK, JUCE, Qt, Fox, Swt, Swing)? Why GTK3? Because: 1) It's written in C, so there should be no problem calling it from any language 2) It has a consistent (some would say "native") look already used by many applications 3) It is popular and stable 4) It works well with the Orca screen reader This way, all people with GTK3 installed would see the same look-and-feel for all programs, regardless of the widget toolkit that those program use (of course, there should way a way to opt out from it, maybe in a config file). This would also help many apps suffering from ugly UIs become more popular. All FLTK and Tk apps, for starters, and there are some very good ones (Rakarrack and ZynAddSubFX/Yoshimi for FLTK, or PureData, Gitk and all Tkinter-based programs for Tk, to name some). This would require a very committed community effort, of course, but I think the reward would be huge. Any opinions? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
