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

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    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
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    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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    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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