Adrian Hey
Native "Look and Feel" ---------------------- Others will disagree, personally I don't care much about this. Having a "quality look and feel" is important I think, but whether or not it looks like every other App on a particular platform seems unimportant to me.
That's what (almost) all X11 users and most Windows users think. They may be right, but on the Mac, the User Interface Laws are considered holy... If I want to write a GUI program for my Mac, native look-and-feel is essentially a precondition. If a toolkit doesn't support a native Mac look and feel, it simply solves the wrong problem for me. Duplicating the Mac look and feel exactly has never worked with cross-platform toolkits. Yes, I maintain that Java Swing is still a failure for Mac OS, although it looks and feels much better than it used to. I happily use Java-based programs on Linux or on Windows, but when I have to use them on the Mac, they just feel out-of-place (even if they already look _almost_ right). It's just no joy using them. Sorry for being negative, I just had to provide a MacOS-centric point of view here. Cheers, Wolfgang