Dear ImGui

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Dear ImGui, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Deviates from standard Windows UI with no native controls, hard for accessibility2024-06-30
Layout framework/API feels weird and counterintuitive to use2024-01-15
Screen reader users get no announcements or navigation feedback in Dear ImGui apps2023-12-20
Unusable with screen readers; gives no labels or navigation cues2023-08-29
Scrolling feels clunky compared to other Mac apps and browsers2023-02-08
Low-level library with no reference docs and is hard to style2022-05-08
Layout is awkward and limited, and accessibility support is non-existent2021-09-07
Hard to express horizontal, vertical and sized layouts compared with Unity's GUI2020-11-04
Anything beyond the examples breaks, e.g. modal popups make other windows misbehave with no fix short of editing library code2020-11-04
Controls cannot be sized before drawing, so clicks cause a frame of lag before feedback appears2020-11-04