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by sweep3r 3231 days ago
Calling Qt native is a stretch. It doesn't really look native. Everything is a little off in all platforms.
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Native as in "not an embedded website".

Also the point of QtQuick as an alternative to Electron is not to look native beyond the menus and dialogs.

And you probably associate Qt with Qt widgets, not QtQuick. Qt widgets actually tries to resemble and behave like native widgets, and it will let you get to that point if you actually care about that.

Most people making cross plat applications don't, which is why popular Qt widgets applications like VirtualBox and VLC don't look native, and QtQuick applications like Telegram for Desktop just ignore the desktop's HIGs completely.