such an approach forces you towards the lowest common demonimator in feature set and behavior. That tends to underwhelm UI designers.

Sure, but if we were willing to sacrifice the less capable GUIs (Motif, Tk), I think that for many projects the LCD between Win32, GTK, and Qt would be acceptable.

Even GTK and Qt would be a welcome combination: there is Qt for OS X and GTK for WinXP, so such a module would be able to be used on (recent versions of) all three major GUI platforms (Windows, X11, Aqua).

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