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16 years ago

Why are quartus ii 9.1 so ugly in linux

i've just installed quartus 9.1, and surprised to find out that the color of quartus in linux so ugly.

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in my previous experience, linux programme has its unique gui pattern, however this time , the gui looks rather like the programmes in win 95, with dark grey backgrounds.

would anyone share a solution to fix it? THX!

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    16 years ago

    There is no fix. That is the way it looks.

    It's not that bad, others vendors look uglier.

    How may years experience have you got with linux ?
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    16 years ago

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    There is no fix. That is the way it looks.

    It's not that bad, others vendors look uglier.

    How may years experience have you got with linux ?

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    Huh, no more than half a year.;)

    It seems that every commercial software' GUI got to be unfriendlier than opensource softs.

    It could have done better:cool:
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    16 years ago

    the old MainWin GUI is what looks like Windows 95. this is being retired for the new GUI which can be run with qgui (or by default in Quartus Linux Web Edition) which i think looks slick.

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    16 years ago

    logicmd,

    I use windows since Win95 and linux since 1998. I develop opensource software ( www.kdevelop.org ) and I use both opensource and comercial CAD software. I'm sorry but I really no not unserstand your point. Quartus has one of the nicest GUIs out there. And they even use Qt (the best GUI tookit ever).
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    16 years ago

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    And they even use Qt (the best GUI tookit ever).

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    there's a fair chance the OP is using MainWin Quartus not Qt Quartus...
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    16 years ago

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    logicmd,

    I use windows since Win95 and linux since 1998. I develop opensource software ( ) and I use both opensource and comercial CAD software. I'm sorry but I really no not unserstand your point. Quartus has one of the nicest GUIs out there. And they even use Qt (the best GUI tookit ever).

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    amilcar,

    you mention qt, that's exactly i want to talk about. As I know, qt, as a cross platform GUI system, has a feature to make the GUI of a programme exactly like the local programmes, no matter in win 7 mac os or linux.

    However the menu style of quartus is not the modern linux style or rather to say it is much more like the windows style. The dark background of menu and toolbar makes it even like win98 or some older version.

    I don't know GUI of quartus is made by MainWin or Qt. However, if it is made by Qt, it takes a little modification to make it brighter, friendlier and consistent in style with other linux programme.

    Matlab is better in the aspect. I had installed it in linux and windows.
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    15 years ago

    i don't remember any problems with MATLAB in Linux, but i thought Simulink was disappointing compared to the Windows version.

    try the Qt version of Quartus with the qgui command. that is the future of Quartus (run with quartus command).
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    15 years ago

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    try the Qt version of Quartus with the qgui command. that is the future of Quartus (run with quartus command).

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    ok~

    so where can i find the Qt version of Quartus?

    i've google qt version of quartus or qt quartus, the first result came with this post, OMG
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    15 years ago

    i tried to explain, at the command line instead of typing 'quartus' to launch Quartus, type 'qgui'.