ReactOS Working On A Community Windows OS

[dee.]

Nope and nope.

OS X does use BSD licensed components and components from FreeBSD but it is not a version of FreeBSD

Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL/Mint/Arch/Gentoo/etc uses the Linux kernel but it is not a version of Linux.

[brk0_0]

It's very hard to believe that someone comes here and says that linux problem is the different look and feel of the apps. Has this user EVER used windows? Let's take a moment to think about themost used apps on windows:

Winamp? iTunes? Chrome? Avast (or any other crappy anti-virus)? CCleaner?
On Windows 7 even the Office had different look from other programs from M$!
Oh...not to mention Metro apps vs. Desktop apps, the most stupid OS UI design decision of all time.

It's a problem for Linux? I don't think so.

(and come here to talk about OLE, when Linux has DBus for years?)

Fonts are maybe a problem, but most users cannot point the difference.

[Nille]

It's very hard to believe that someone comes here and says that linux problem is the different look and feel of the apps.

Who say that? i say that its horrible to integrate you apps, thats different.

[jayrulez]

Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL/Mint/Arch/Gentoo/etc uses the Linux kernel but it is not a version of Linux.

Strawman?

Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/RHEL/Mint/Arch/Gentoo/etc use *BSD components but it is not a version of *BSD.

[doom_Oo7]

Winamp? iTunes? Chrome? Avast (or any other crappy anti-virus)? CCleaner?
On Windows 7 even the Office had different look from other programs from M$!
Oh...not to mention Metro apps vs. Desktop apps, the most stupid OS UI design decision of all time.

Actually, even if the look is not consistent (but for most of these apps it is more a matter of client vs server-side decorations), the fonts used in menus, etc... look the same everywhere, which is not the case on many software on linux as it was stated before.

Also : hinting and antialiasing suck so much on non-retina displays anyway, bitmap fonts are the only way for me to prevent eye-bleed after five minutes. I don't even get how can somebody actually read some text on a Mac (and I have one at work).

[kokoko3k]

Several of popular Windows applications look completely different to the common Windows idioms: Chrome, Winamp, Adobe Reader. Java programs look the same on any platform, which is not Windows-like either.

So please explain why this difference is not a problem on Windows, since all mentioned apps have a lot of happy users.

This.
And as opensource projexts and apps, Qt, GTK apps exists on windows too, QT apps exists on windows TOO.
And they DO look different on windows TOO.

[ihatemichael]

This.
And as opensource projexts and apps, Qt, GTK apps exists on windows too, QT apps exists on windows TOO.
And they DO look different on windows TOO.

Qt.

Get it right.

[nerdopolis]

Qt.

Get it right.

Is this FUNKstar again?Aka the Qt Capitalisation Police

[dee.]

Qt.

Get it right.

GTK+.

Get it right.

[doom_Oo7]

This.
And as opensource projexts and apps, Qt, GTK apps exists on windows too, QT apps exists on windows TOO.
And they DO look different on windows TOO.

http://qt.digia.com/Product/Qt-Core-Features-Functions/Library/#GUI

Qt uses the native graphics API of each platform it supports, taking full advantage of system resources.

Qt LOOKS native.