ugh, the state of gui toolkits on linux is just sad
the nice:
qt4 is thankfully gone for good
afaict, qt5 => qt6 is not a difficult upgrade, and UIs tend to be fairly consistent between the two, so there’s nothing to complain about there
qwidget apps generally feel pretty decent
the not nice:
gtk2 can’t die fast enough (gimp )
gtk4, despite being filled with cool tech, is somehow a huge regression from gtk3, again
the default theme is different and afaict they’ve just removed theming support entirely
qtquick creates another rift in UI consistency
despite KDE’s best efforts to create a compatibility layer for qstyle, there are unfixable impedance mismatches which cause problems with some themes
e-fucking-lectron
at this point we’re basically competing with windows for how many GUI toolkits will “coexist” on a single platform
xdg pls harmonize this shit thanks