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?

>>39
By most, I mean most alternative browsers with full web features. Think xombrero or surf.

It's unrealistic for a team of 5 programmers or less to start a brand new browser from scratch that handles all of the bullshit shitty web standards out there.

>>38
If it's javascript, it's shit.

I don't know what Internet Explorer used

GDI, GDI+ and I believe also DirectDraw in the latest versions.

>>43
Not DirectDraw that's been deprecated a long time ago. I think you must mean Direct2D. Not that it matters. Microsoft technology is shit.

>>43
who are you quoting?

>>45
He's quoting >>39.