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Re: My two cents ... again and again
by Jonas on Friday 28/Mar/2008, @17:38

Well, I will only respond to two points here.

First, I've seen (and used) Qt apps run under Windows and they certainly feel native to me.

However, even if they were slightly different in an aspect here and there...well, they're in good company then. Not even Microsoft's own software maintain a consistent look and feel to them. Vista looks and behave in one way. Internet Explorer is slightly different and not consistent with Vista as a whole. Office 2007 deviates even more, and so does Windows Media Player. Windows users don't seem to mind, so if Kontact (for example) doesn't blend in completely is unlikely to be a major showstopper. It may or may not be suitable for other reasons but it's un-nativeness is essentially a non-issue.

And as far as your beloved KDE3 apps go...what's stopping you from using them in KDE 4? Those I've tried run just fine in KDE 4 with no recompiling necessary. True, they don't take advantage of the new features but a Windows app made for XP won't take advantage of Vista's new features either (but there's no guarantee that they will run. API breakage is not exactly unheard of in Windows or MacOS X either).

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