Good Looking UI for a stand alone application

[Vincent Delporte]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:23:10 +0100, Christophe Cavalaria
<chris.cavalaria at free.fr> wrote:
>They use QT. Back to read the first part of your post.

It doesn't make much difference: 
- QT is big, so even small apps carry a lot of baggage
- by not using the native widgets, you're dependent on that layer to
keep up with changes in the look & feel of the platform (eg. XP's
widgets that look different from previous widgets).

Bottom line: GUI apps are better off extracting the maximum amount of
logic into OS-agnostic code, and then rewrite the GUI for each
platform.

Even better: Considering that Windows has a 95% market share, make
doubly-sure that it makes financial sense to provide a cross-platform
GUI application (the server can be written in text mode, and can then
be available for multiple OS's with no major problem).