If you want to expand your topic a little, you could go into the 'toolkit hell' that currently exists.

To paraphrase your example, you can choose a toolkit that looks like arse (*cough* Tk *cough*) or go for something that looks lovely but only works on Linux.. Or you could pick something like WxWindows and go insane.

In this case, no compromise is possible.

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