> TUIs don't need to follow any OS guidelines, cross-platform GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform.
So because TUIs look universally bad, they're better than cross-platform GUI?
So because TUIs look universally bad, they're better than cross-platform GUI?
qBittorrent looks great on KDE, and would look great on macOS too if they used native icons (I’ve made a theme for that but was too lazy to install it when I was switching laptops). No idea about Gnome and Windows, but probably alright as well.
So, Qt can get you a long way. But you should of course adapt your app to platform conventions and guidelines.
You can't stay engaged if the menus don't bleep and bloop at you and confetti rains down on every click? That's a personal problem. A minimal UI is not automatically a bad-looking UI.
sounds like your terminal emulator is just crap, terminal and iterm on mac just work
If you mean what Claude Code does when you paste longer text, you can just press Cmd-V again to show the full text.