gtk - garbage toolkit

GTk is bloated trash due to its dependencies like GLib, cairo and DBus.
Qt4/5 is equally bloated C++ garbage.

OpenVG used to be a saner alternative to cairo, but it's fallen by the wayside and support for it in Gallium has been dropped and might end up getting removed from Mesa in the future.

So if you were to throw away gtk and qt, and starting from first principles, how would you go about building a minimalist themable widget library on top of GL/GLES for Wayland that can be used to build a desktop where applications have a common look-and-feel?

if you were to throw away gtk and qt, and starting from first principles

I investigated this and it was too hard to make things not look terrible when resizing

GL/GLES
Wayland

why did you start out so great and then turn into shit