Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- Subject: Re: Strong language about Cocoa and Qt
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:02:51 +0200
At 12:04 Uhr -0400 03.07.2003, Thanh Ly wrote:
I hear a lot of people saying that Cocoa is much better, etc. It's
all subjective. Well, no one can deny that it's better in the sense
that it's native to OSX. Same goes for UI look and feel issues.
People have different opinions on that. I rather like the way Qt
apps behave and they seem to have brought that behavior with them to
OSX.
I think this is why you're getting disagreeing answers from us Mac
folks. The main reason for the Mac's existence is its great UI, the
way everything integrates more flawlessly than on other platforms.
That was the main "selling point" the Mac had (and still has, though
to a different degree).
If you say you want to write Macintosh programs, you're expected to
give them a Mac GUI, or your users (most of whom have bought their
Macs exactly because they wanted its especially intuitive user
interface) will not enjoy using it.
Yes, you can write perfectly working applications that run on a
Macintosh, but they won't be Macintosh applications unless you get
the "look and feel" right.
But you're perfectly right that there's a conflict of interests
here: Businessmen don't like variations. Ideally, the program would
look and work the same on all platforms, because then support
wouldn't have to be platform-specific. But so far I've yet to see a
case where this was actually accepted by users, because they want a
homogenous UI across all applications on their computer.
CodeWarrior fell flat on their noses with their first Windows
release because developers there felt it was "too Mac-like".
wxWindows was blamed for being to Windows-y, MetaCard feels more like
Motif...
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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