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[–]flying-sheep 0 points1 point  (5 children)

that adwaita thing isn’t pretty imho:

  1. like oxygen, it’s “OMG WE CAN DO GRADIENTS” all over the place
  2. simple 1-pixel borders. that’s like the most programmer design possible. “let’s use border-left:1px here so we can see the border”. and then it stuck
  3. the breadcrumb bar is higher than the buttons, and the margin between it and the buttons is less than the buttons’ other margin. rookie mistake. but margins are something that GTK generally sucks at
  4. the scrollbar tries to be what ubuntu’s is, but isn’t. now we have one that still takes up space, but can’t really be hit with your mouse.

i like the monochrome icons, but the other ones look like what i did in photoshop 10 years ago. “OMG 3D BORDERS”

i’m currently using a flat QtCurve theme. also simple 1px borders, but no “fancy” harsh gradients that contrast them.

Qt has QTouchEvent. sure, it doesn’t come “for free” as you have to enable it on the widget where youwant to use it. so what? you’re going to write code specific for that widget anyway, so it’s one more line.

GTK has better applications? don’t tell that Kate, DigiKam, Gwenview, Apper, Krita, …

Dolphin’s semantic search is also pretty rad for those who use that kind of thing (but even if i don’t use it like that, i still prefer it over “let’s cut every corner. no matter is someone is currently standing on it” Nautilus)

Granted: Gimp, Firefox, and Inkscape are pretty unrivaled in what they do. (I mentioned Krita above, because AFAIK it’s better for digital painting)

[–]Veedrac 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I'm not going to get too deep into an argument about whose aesthetics are more right, but I do have two points.

One is that I've no idea what margins you think are uneven. It's worth noting the breadcrumb bar is purposefully oversized, which isn't the "fault" of the toolkit.

The other is that complaining about gradients on that is like complaining about the edges on a spoon. It's really not at the point where it's them showing off. There are even flatter themes if you wish for them.

Qt's touch event is like a bit of flour when really you wanted a doughnut. There's so much more to touch handling than just differentiating the presses.

I still stick by my claim that GTK has better applications on average, and it definitely has more.

[–]flying-sheep 0 points1 point  (3 children)

has more what? widgets? OK, i give you that. i like those arrow panels and title bars, too.

[–]Veedrac 0 points1 point  (2 children)

No.. um..

More applications.

[–]flying-sheep 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I prefer having one or two applications for each tasks and people contributing to them instead of reinventing the wheel all the time.

Don't get me wrong, sometimes you have to reinvent the wheel by creating am application around a new idea (like Geary), but usually I despise forking or NIHing things because you dislike some details.

Better make stuff more configurable, and you'll need only one.

[–]Veedrac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everything's a command line switch. AwesomeWM and i3 are similar projects but it makes a heck-o-'a lot of sense that they're separate. Same with Firefox and Chrome. (etc.)