While GTK is technically cross-platform, in practice it is perceived as Gnome's GUI library (like Qt is perceived as KDE's GUI library). GTK applications look "correct" inside Gnome. They look "off" inside other environments. Since Gnome is practically only used on UNIX-like systems, the same goes for GTK, but to a lesser degree.The Squash wrote: ↑2020-06-14, 18:30I was asking from a developer's perspective why GTK is only really used on UNIX-like systems.
Why have a build specifically for OS X? Topic is solved
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Important note:
The Mac OSX version of Pale Moon is provided by various people and is not official or in any way organized at this moment. Your assistance in bringing this build to fruition is greatly appreciated, but you can expect there to be bugs and problems as long as we don't have a maintainer or official builds!
Any specific bugs you find that don't have their own topic yet: please make a new topic; one bug per topic please to keep things organized.
Please also note that these builds are currently created by various independent Mac OS X people and not by our core team; core devs will likely not be able to provide insight or assistance due to lack of Mac hardware and OS/build knowledge for Mac. You'll have to solve the issues among yourselves.
Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
I get the point about the arrangement of toolbars and buttons, but some people have conniption fits if the colours are different. I certainly do not see any point in that.HarmonicResonance wrote: ↑2020-06-14, 18:22Dude, come on. You are speaking like you don't know about the consistency that either leads to people being wildly in love with your platform or just enduring it.
Put another why, why should shortcuts be consistent between applications?
Why should buttons be placed in the same order across applications?
Why should words be used consistently across applications?
You get the idea. Please look into UX, human factors, man-machine interfaces, and so on. There's been a lot of research done on this topic and what you are suggesting people do not want and there are many good reasons behind it.
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Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
I already said this was solved. I appreciate people responding to my question, but I'm now going to get on with my life.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
What was solved? I see no issue to resolve here.
How far are you prepared to go? How much are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice for victory?
Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is to come.
Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is to come.
Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
Off-topic:
Why are we discussing this? Don't beat the dead horse, and please quench your thirst elsewhere. This should be locked else someone will again preach about consistency and design.
Why are we discussing this? Don't beat the dead horse, and please quench your thirst elsewhere. This should be locked else someone will again preach about consistency and design.
Re: Why have a build specifically for OS X?
I'll happily preach about consistency, design ad intuitive interfaces any day. I'm not gonna lock a thread in fear of that.
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