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?

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Most browsers use Webkit/GTk.

Just what is ``most''? You mean Firefox does. Chrome bailed a year ago. Opera used Qt for things it didn't write itself. I don't know what Internet Explorer used, but I would be highly surprised if it was GNU garbage. Maxathon? Is that even still around? That new browser that fired Opera engineers are making uses JS to render the UI. That Opera splinter group, Otter Browser, uses Qt. Probably Lynx and Links use curses. Websurf, I don't have a clue about, but lets say it is GTK, that's what? Two out of ten? (I wasn't counting).