Proposal to use Qocoa to support native-look widgets on different platform

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 11 March 2013 10:17, C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 March 2013 Mar, Yuë Liu wrote:
>> What's your opinion on this? At leaset we need all the application
>> maintainers' support.
>
> I don't think this is the right way to go. If we want it to look good on osx,
> we should work on the qstyle, which will benefit other projects as well. It may
> never look completely native but I'm sure it can be made to look much better.

As I said, QStyle should be available, yes. But alone it's not enough.
Existence of extra types for buttons shows this - it's up to app
developer to actually set the flags for buttons to make the look &
feel more compliant with the Mac Guidelines
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Intro/Intro.html

QStyle itself or even KStyle and friends have no APIs for these
buttons because, well, QStyle abstracts somehow common denominator of
HIG implementation.

Recently there was a thread on qt-devel list, filled with good points:
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-March/010294.html

A question that most interest me here is: how to enable developers to
find-tune the code for specific HIGs without blurring the code for
other targets.

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