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Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016) by Retra on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:42AM (#19758671)
It's probably more the behavior things. Keyboard shortcuts, focus behaviors, menu placement, file dialogs, etc. Settings panels in MacOs should take effect immediately, while in windows you have to click ok/apply... inconsistencies like this can lead to frustration.
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Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016) by Wowfunhappy on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:40PM (#19760608)
But not doing this brings about an even worse kind of context switching—between apps on the same platform.

As annoying as it is to switch form cmd+C to ctrl+C when I go from Mac to Windows, it's even worse when a Mac app uses ctrl+C.

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Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016) by jcelerier on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:18PM (#19759746)
this, and also the need to write three (or four if you want to do separate stuff for KDE & GNOME) times the amount of documentation to accomodate for the different "default" behaviours.
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