I was reading through the dev mailing list archives and noticed the posts in March asking which GUIs might be considered better than GTK+ and Qt. I'm very interested in the subject and have been searching for a decent GUI library for a very long time. My latest list of possible C based GUI alternatives is here: https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/8313.html If anyone has found other cross-platform GUIs or TUIs written in C that I've missed, please let me know so that I can add them to the list.
I'd also be interested to hear what attributes list members think a C GUI should have to better fit suckless.org criteria. If you were creating your own GUI, what would you do differently than what's already out there? One thing that I'd like is for a GUI library to just handle graphical user interface related functions and not try to provide an entire framework including data structures and/or functions that duplicate standard POSIX C library functionality for platforms missing POSIX compatibility. Another thing I'd want is at least minimal internationalization support (enough to be able to handle display and input of characters in the UTF-8 character set). I'd also want the options to use keyboard input for devices that have a keyboard or mouse/touchscreen/joystick input for devices that don't have a physical keyboard. I prefer a GUI library that doesn't require a custom or specialized build system just to get it to compile. Some GUIs definitely seem like they try to do too much. Are there things that are missing from common GUIs that you feel should have been included in the design? Would be interested to hear further comments on the subject. Thanks. Sincerely, Laura
