Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
by thomasahle on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:56PM
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I think the point is that many "professional" tools have their own aesthetics independent of the rest of the OS. Things like lightroom or movie editing software. For these programs OS skins are not needed.
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Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
by criddell on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @08:08PM
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That's a very good point. That tool, however, should at the very least be internally consistent and pleasant to use.
I don't think that's what the person was saying that I responded to or he wouldn't have made the condescending remark about people using a pro machine to use Outlook and Facebook.
Re:Darling – MacOS translation layer for Linux
by danudey on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:30AM
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Not 'skins' per se, but even when themed, most (good) professional apps will still use native or native-behaving controls and similar design language to the host OS.
In comparison, Mac apps will look and feel different from Linux or Windows apps, and QT and GTK+ apps will look and feel different from one another or the other two.
Switching between apps, even with heavily customized UI/UX, is consistent on a given platform, and that's what's important. Taking that away will just frustrate users and complicate things overmuch.