On: Wireshark is switching to Qt

[matthewmacleod]

It's possible to build a cross-platform GUI app using Qt that looks pretty much at home on all platforms. Certainly requires a bit more work and customisation per-platform, but good Qt apps are almost indistinguishable from native ones.

[Osmium → matthewmacleod]

Honestly, I think it'd be better if they kept a non-native UI that was at least internally consistent rather than trying to replicate a Mac native UI badly. I use so many apps with bad Mac ports that look perfectly decent on Linux...

[tuananh → Osmium]

The only decent look cross-platform app I found is Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com)

[Osmium → tuananh]

That's because they build a native Mac GUI (same for certain other cross-platform apps, e.g. Handbrake).

[interpol_p → matthewmacleod]

Do you have any examples of OS X apps written with Qt that are indistinguishable from great Cocoa apps?

I'm considering using Qt for an OS X project and would love to see what it can do when used well.