The Linux GUI toolkit situation, or why Electron (or similar) is sadly the future.

• Avalonia

  254 23,672 9.9 C#

  Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

  

Have you taken a look at http://avaloniaui.net/ at all?

• gio

  62 1,403 9.2 Go

  Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)

  

I have started using Gio https://gioui.org/ for all my projects. It's written in Go and supports pretty much all platforms natively.

• InfluxDB

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• fyne

  150 23,218 9.6 Go

  Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

  

there also Fyne which seems promising as modern cross platform toolkit, but does not support native look a guess.

• QtFluentDesign

  1 107 10.0 SCSS

  Microsoft Fluent Design for Qt Widget Applications based on Qt CSS files

If we're talking about including an extra dependency for each target platform, why not use https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/QtFluentDesign

• Uno Platform

  130 8,363 10.0 C#

  Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

  

There is also Uno Platform.

• iup-go

  11 257 5.7 Go

  Cross-platform UI library with native controls

I recently created a Go binding here https://github.com/gen2brain/iup-go and was amazed how simple API is, thanks to their attribute system. Although they have some controls that are custom, everything else is native. Compared to Qt or wxWidgets, IUP is just a UI toolkit, Qt/wxWidgets is much more than just a UI toolkit.

• i3

  200 9,053 7.6 C

  A tiling window manager for X11

  

I agree with your other comment that a single UI that looks 100% "native" everywhere is a pipe dream. I don't know why certain people keep chasing that rainbow. As someone else noted, "native" isn't even really defined on Linux. For example, I use Window Maker, which has a very different UI than GNOME and KDE—it's not based on GNUstep but has a similar look and integrates well with it. On Linux there are people who still prefer the Motif UI (mwm, fvwm, CDE) and even plain Xaw (twm). Then there are the tiling window managers that just use plain Xlib (e.g. i3).

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• libui-ng

  15 557 7.1 C

  libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"

  

It's not very well-established, but have you looked at libui-ng, a fork of libui that is actively developed?

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