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Every Qt application I've ever used has been ... off.

Granted, it's closer than Swing. That's a pretty low bar. We need to either start qualifying this ("it's a good GUI toolkit for a cross-platform one"), or accepting that this is a scale (10 is "actually native", 0 is "just looks like Motif everywhere"). I'd give Qt 8/10 -- it's pretty good, and the screenshots look great but after a moment using it I'll say "wait, I think I know why everything feels just a little bit off".




As a counter to that, you've only got one set of data points, the ones you noticed. Potentially there are dozens or hundreds of well-made Qt apps that you haven't noticed, and so they by definition wouldn't be a part of your dataset.


Yeah but if you use Qml you can do whatever you want. That's the magic.


> Every Qt application I've ever used has been ... off.

even Microsoft OneDrive ? even battle.net ? even your AMD drivers ? even Telegram ?


Those programs definitely do not use the same UI conventions as the rest of the platform.




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