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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1188645" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>The problem with a significant number of cross-platform apps is the need to use a toolkit that works across platforms. Many of these look terrible on the Mac or at best, look like nothing more than a superficial theme. Take Firefox for example - it works on the Mac but it looks absolutely terrible. There are exceptions of course. Chromium, a fully open source and cross-platform app, is built with Cocoa and works/operates like a great Mac app should.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea what toolkit OpenOffice and LibreOffice use but it looks horrible on the Mac. It's not bad on Windows and looks great in a GTK environment (with some assistance).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1188645, member: 71075"] The problem with a significant number of cross-platform apps is the need to use a toolkit that works across platforms. Many of these look terrible on the Mac or at best, look like nothing more than a superficial theme. Take Firefox for example - it works on the Mac but it looks absolutely terrible. There are exceptions of course. Chromium, a fully open source and cross-platform app, is built with Cocoa and works/operates like a great Mac app should. I have no idea what toolkit OpenOffice and LibreOffice use but it looks horrible on the Mac. It's not bad on Windows and looks great in a GTK environment (with some assistance). [/QUOTE]
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