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Like all frameworks, which are barebones libraries wrapped in opinionated organization, KDE/QT can be a lot when you need a simple UI.
I’ve used Nuklear to make simple, portable, UIs: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
Everything has trade offs; I might need to come up with my own way of handling some bit of state, but my projects aren’t big enough to need the software equivalent of a Costco.
The Fyne cross-platform GUI in Go toolkit itself has been called "the easie[s]t native cross platform UI toolkit I ever use[d]"¹. It is designed to build applications that run on desktop and mobile devices with a single codebase.
https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne#widget-demo
¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291150#22292145
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Related HN discussions:
Fyne: Native Mobile UX in Go https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291150 113 points|wwarner|2 years ago|21 comments
Fyne: Cross-Platform GUI in Go Based on Material Design https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19478079 360 points|3 years ago|92 comments
Have you seen SerenityOS? https://serenityos.org/
"A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers!
SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix.
This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like."
Boots in a VM currently, but it has attracted a good community and people are working on getting it booting on hardware. It's been featured on HN several times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Have you seen SerenityOS? https://serenityos.org/
"A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers!
SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix.
This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like."
Boots in a VM currently, but it has attracted a good community and people are working on getting it booting on hardware. It's been featured on HN several times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...