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0 pointsnicholassmith11y ago0 comments

Little bit of a, little bit of b. They use some native controls on X11, and I think they hook into the Windows C++ APIs in places as well, but with the shift to QML I think it's back to being heavily custom control based again.

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ori_b11y ago

> They use some native controls on X11

They are native controls on X11. Or, more accurately, X11 has no native controls. The closest is probably XAW, which is so awful it was dropped decades ago. There are QT themes that will use GTK for rendering, though.

(For reference, a screenshot of XAW: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/halama/_13595_figure4289.gif The box with 'Athena Simple Widgets' is what is provided by X11.)

bryanlarsen11y ago

Usually when people talk about native controls on Linux, they're talking about the controls used by whatever window manager they're using. By that measure, QT is not native on any of the gnome window managers, but is native on a KDE based distribution.

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ori_b11y ago

> They use some native controls on X11

(For reference, a screenshot of XAW: http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/halama/_13595_figure4289.gif The box with 'Athena Simple Widgets' is what is provided by X11.)

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