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How so? Do you mean that companies are allowed to customize their own apps now? Cuz with regular desktop frameworks it's pretty hard to do that (compared to web frameworks anyway). All apps end up looking the same.
Yes. That's literally the point. The more things look and behave as expected, the easier they are to use.
Of course these days that gets trumped by the desire to shove the corporate design everywhere.
I'm not sure limiting customization is actually a good thing... There are legitimate customizations and innovative inputs that people like.
For example, Logseq has a fancy text field that can bring up a submenu if you type two left brackets. Something like this is pretty specific to Logseq (or at least certain notes apps) and this would be much harder to replicate in a native app.
Or are you saying Logseq shouldn't do that? And it should assume that the notes area is just a plain text field? I guess that would be considered more "expected".
At least in my experience with Vala and GTK, this would take significantly more effort. Not impossible. Just way more effort.
Not something I would consider terribly hard to implement, but it would depend on the toolkit. A function for getting the text in a textbox and a callback to alert you to the fact that the user is typing is something I would expect to find in any modern GUI toolkit.