> Using a cross platform toolkit often guarantees your app > will look like crap on every platform. ?For example, here's > Audacity on my system: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/~rlrevell/audacity.png > > It looks horrible compared to my Gnome apps. ?Especially > the fonts. I'm currently reading a lot about usability issues; this one is one of them. The user may expect all apps of his platform to behave the same. But how to solve this? Even as we're on Linux and we have lots of choices within one system? On Win or Mac the OS always looks the same. You demand that every cross platform application should use the toolkit of the target platforms. A good idea. But this needs to make many many bindings for an GUI application - lots of work only for the reason to make it behave as the user expects. This also means: if anyone does a Linux application, he should enable his application for all GUI toolkits currently known on Linux. We all know that this causes lots of additional work. So, any recommendation for (not only) the audacity project? Best regards ce
