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   ⚪ the lynne creacher (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:36:25 JST ⚪ the lynne creacher

   the year is 2050. GTK is still preparing the move to version 4, and has collaborated with the FBI to assassinate anyone who mentions the filepicker thumbnail bug. qt stil has an open source version, but it requires you to have create an account with a valid email address and physical address, and limits applications to only containing one window.

   microsoft is still "transitioning away from winforms" to the Multiversal Windows Platform, For Real You Guys, We're Doing It Platform. iOS desktop (formerly macOS) has deprecated all system widgets in favour of the cloud. google has created an artificial intelligence to randomly create and deprecate new GUI frameworks, rendering it essentially impossible for anybody but them to create android apps with "native GUIs".

   the only usable framework is electron, but everybody hates it because bloat.

   as people struggle to find a desktop ui framework that hasn't been bogged down into uselessness by licensing issues or lack of features, a saviour emerges from the heavens: java swing

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 10:37:31 JST SuperDicq

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     @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space Unironically I would almost recommend people to develop frontends for graphical applications in the Godot game engine. Their UI stuff is really good, easy to use, not bloated at all and works on all platforms.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 22:15:44 JST SuperDicq

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     • starfrost

     @starfrost@wetdry.world @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space Still smaller than an empty Electron project!

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     starfrost (starfrost@wetdry.world)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 22:15:45 JST starfrost

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq @lynnesbian yeah but an empty godot project is 85 megabytes

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 04:00:50 JST phiofx

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     @lynnesbian we can think backwards. Its 2050 and there is dominant gui framework that paints every screen between here and A Centauri. What brought it there? What was the killer feature?

     a) a monopoly bigtech (economic reasons)

     b) extreme ease in application development (developer reasons)

     c) extreme pleasantness in user experience (user reasons)

     d) Elon