egui

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2021–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with egui, 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 11 complaints

Typing on mobile is laggy, dropping and garbling characters2024-12-26
Resize handle switches to wrong cursor and resizing vertically does not work2024-12-26
Android keyboard overlaps the window, making egui apps unusable on mobile2024-07-02
The split between egui and eframe crates is confusing to the developer2024-03-27
Dropdown opens only on mouse release, not on press, unlike native widgets2024-03-27
Dynamically sized and responsive layouts are hard or impossible to build in egui2024-01-16
Coding every dialog box by hand in Rust is miserable with many dialogs2023-04-27
Interfaces feel awkward to use because scrolling, text selection and resizing behave unlike native UIs2023-04-27
Turning off window chrome means manually re-adding resize and close functionality2023-04-25
Fake links break ctrl-click and middle-click to open background tabs2022-12-05
Interactions start to lag when many windows are open2021-08-13