Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>>> It does not abstract most of the GUI elements at all, it just
>>> draws them on its own.
>>>
>> Correct. So what?
> 
> If the GUI look changes, Qt does not.  So you end up with a really ugly
> application full of (for the user) odd redraw errors.  And it many cases
> the Qt widgets don't behave exactly as their native counterparts,
> resulting in a plain usability nightmare <sigh>
> 
Okay. As I am only using Qt under Linux, I do not see that problem. 
But regarding MS Windows, you may well be right. 

And well... probably ABX is right: We're off-topic here. 

But as we're talking about GUI, I'd favour complete separation 
of the raytracing core and the GUI for future POVRay versions. 
It should be possible to build a non-GUI POVRay for render farms. 

Wolfgang

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