On 04/08/2016 10:37 AM, Fabio Pesari wrote: > 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)? > Actually there is a GTK+ 2 "backend" for Swing [1]. It draws all buttons and text fields and so on like GTK+ does, but it does not always work well. For example, some text input fields that work well with the default Java Swing look are very small with the GTK+ look. It also is no more accessible to blind users than the default look. How could it be? [1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html#available
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