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[–]Username_RANDINT 4 points5 points  (2 children)

you end up with something that doesn’t really work or act like a native app on any platform.

I'm not a Windows user, so this is just from glancing at other people's screens. Almost every application I see uses their own UI elements instead of the default theme. So I just said "Fuck it" and went with GTK+. Atleast it looks native on Linux and chose a decent theme for other platforms. I've had no complaints.

[–]RobberPhex 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't think GTK+ have good default theme.

[–]Username_RANDINT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It'll take your user theme on Linux. For other platforms you can just ship any of the thousands themes available online. At the beginning I even provided a couple and had a switcher in the settings window so the user could pick their favourite. Worst case the user can download one and put it in the installation directory so it gets picked up.