[wxPython-users] big difference in appearance between Windows and Linux

[Chris Mellon]

On Dec 10, 2007 8:02 AM, Paul Sijben <sijben at eemvalley.com> wrote:
>
>  Andrea,
>
>  thanks for the info. I guess even wx is not safe from the Murphy
> derivative;
>  platform independent toolkits aren't ;-)
>
>

For the record, wx is not intended to provide identical appearance on
all platforms. Rather, it's intended to normalize the API between
native toolkits and to provide mechanisms (like sizers) to allow you
to use the same abstractions with different results. For example, the
"OK" button a dialog will look different, have different labeling, be
a different size, and in a different location on each of win32, gtk,
and os x. The intention of wx is to let you use a single API to create
these different interfaces.

If you want something that looks the same on all platforms, you need
an owner-drawn toolkit like Qt or Swing.