Re: [Flightgear-devel] New re-arranging and styling for the QtLauncher

[Emilian H. <emi...@gm...>]

On Sunday, January 29, 2017 12:51:02 PM EET Jim Harris wrote:
> 1. Unlike Windows or the Mac, what we call "Linux" has more aspects, and
> more ways of configuring it's desktops, than a cat has hair.  Gnome, KDE,
> Cinnamon, Mate, you name it - some bizzaro distribution has it for a
> desktop manager, and (AFAIK) there is no common set of API calls for all of
> them.  So, whatever we do has to fit whatever the least common denominator
> is, unless we build our own widgets, controls, dialogs, etc. etc. etc

Fortunately Qt can [if allowed] "mimic' other toolkits when it finds itself in 
their environment, thus a Qt application will not look out of place neither on 
any of the major linux desktop managers [be they Plasma/KDE or the plethora of 
gtk or gnome based ones] nor on Windows or OSX. 

Regards,
Emilian