Go Qt, perhaps?

Posted Sep 29, 2010 6:48 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Go Qt, perhaps? by smokeing
Parent article: Michael Meeks talks about LibreOffice and the Document Foundation

even the dreariest clerks will start to laugh at the 1990-ish look of OOo. Even the most conservative toolkit, GTK+, makes passes at OpenGL-enabled widgets

OOo has usability problems, but the lack of shine and glitter in widgets is not one of them... I'm desperately hoping the "new management" will not get sidetracked with eye candy, and instead will address the more serious problems first. Eg. try to do something about the ridiculous resource usage, which is one place where using a standard toolkit could actually help, provided the same toolkit (and version!) is used by other programs running on the same machine. This would be the case with QT in a KDE environment, or GTK on Gnome.