GTK+

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2010–2022), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with GTK+, 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 14 complaints

Developer API is bizarre and the documentation is terrible2022-02-17
Hard to find things by visually scanning the screen for menu items2021-05-22
Shortcut editing is undiscoverable and easy to change by accident, breaking the program2021-05-22
Common tasks require convoluted, hair-pulling code and are more verbose2019-11-06
Scroll wheel scrolling often confuses which widget has focus2018-06-25
Hidden scrollbars are hard to see, and the config workaround to remove them keeps breaking2018-06-24
Cannot find a dark, non-flat GTK3 theme with usable scrollbars2018-06-24
Clicking beside the scrollbar jumps to position, so misclicks are hard to undo2018-06-24
Hidden menus make shortcuts and features hard to discover and find2018-06-24
Hard to get dynamic UIs to fit content with GTK+ tooling2017-09-24
UI elements become too small to use on high-density mobile screens2014-10-27
Gtk+ has no accessibility support on Windows or Mac, blocking screen readers2014-04-28
GTK+ dialogs look wrong on Windows and buttons appear in the wrong order2012-07-09
Hard to make GTK+ apps feel native on Windows, nearly impossible on macOS2010-10-02