[Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

[nobodyhere]

Okay, so I actually tried out two Qt Creator sample projects on Mac OS X.  I don't know what you mean about this alleged font rendering problem...  The font looks correct to me.

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From: "nobodyhere" <pem.accounts.spam at gmail.com>
To: "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc at arcor.de>
Cc: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:44:43 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

@Nikos: You said "Java"...  Did you mean Swing?

@Nikos: I really hope Qt continues to improve Mac OS X look and feel support (font rendering / kerning, slow loading, ?) in general

@Jason: you really think Java is dead (ie, legacy like COBOL)?  That sounds kind of extremist?

@Jason: Carbon is lagacy; Cocoa (and 64-bit) is the future, Cocoa Touch is for iPhone OS

@Nikos or anyone:

> My first cross-platform GUI desktop application is just a simple specialized object based image drawing utility (you can open a png image and draw objects on it, like rectangles or polygons, and resize / move / delete / copy etc these objects).

For my specific app's description, do you think Qt will look (or feel) different than if I use Interface Builder?  Java's Swing?  Java's SWT?  REAL Studio?

What could be wrong with Qt (or Swing, SWT, etc)?  Are you talking about the font rendering thing?

Is the argument that I should write my non-UI code in (Java or C# or C++), and then write 4 different GUI's for (Windows 7, Mac OS X, KDE, GNOME)?  Or even (use Qt for Windows 7, KDE, GNOME) and (use Interface Builder for Mac OS X)?  This sounds kind of extremist?

thank you for any info / leads

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikos Chantziaras" <realnc at arcor.de>
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Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 5:39:45 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Is Qt the best choice for cross-platform desktop GUI applications? Mac OS X (Cocoa, Aqua)? KDE, GNOME, Windows 7

It's actually the first time they switch in more than 20 years :P

But anyway, right now, Qt can't visually compete with apps written 
directly in either Carbon or Cocoa, and OS X users are the world's most 
anal ones about GUI look&feel.


On 04/13/2010 01:30 AM, Jason H wrote:
> Glad I use Qt! I don't really have to care that they switch every two years!
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> On 04/13/2010 01:05 AM, Jason H wrote:
>> [...]
>> And I thought Carbon was the future of OSX or did I get that confused?
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> No, Carbon is the old, C-based API tracing back to classic, pre-X Mac
> OS.  Cocoa is the new one.
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