tech complaints, GUI edition
People love to complain about the web and how it's so awful and bad, but I'm looking at making a cross platform GUI which uses native elements, and the stuff I've tried either doesn't actually use native UI elements and styling or doesn't support basic stuff like scrollable areas.
Libui seemed super promising (trying it in #rust), but literally I can't make scrolling text with it. 🙃
tech complaints, GUI edition
So far I've only managed to get FLTK and libui working.
FLTK is the one that doesn't handle native styles for some reason. They advertise that it's using native UI libraries, and it has a thing for theming, but it just gives me the default GTK style on Linux. 🙃
QT seems to be the most "cross platform", but it's environment is huge and full of corpo-ware.
I'd love to move past the "using entire web browsers for UI" mode of app development, but it's hard.
tech complaints, GUI edition
@mauve personally I just wish the UI layer in OSes were web based.
Like Microsoft's XAML should've just been an HTML and CSS renderer without the JavaScript side for apps to work with.
And for anything the web can't do or isn't good at they could make custom elements and attributes.