Consumer-style user interfaces - ugh (Score 2, Insightful)

Driven by consumer electronic devices such as mobile phones and PDAs, desktop applications are moving away from standard widgets and styles towards more customized user interfaces. Qt 4 will support this modern user interface approach through its powerful style system as well as with flicker-free refreshes and transparency for all built-in and custom widgets.

I find this trend distressing. Custom user interfaces are, in general, a bad idea. Using non-standard widgets impacts negatively upon application usability.

Standardised widgets help the user quickly adapt to new applications, by maintaining consistent user interfaces.