Kivy

Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2013–2022), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Kivy, 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 12 complaints

Kivy is hard to work with and slow to open2022-02-13
Deploying app to a phone constantly fails with mismatched tooling and cryptic errors2022-02-06
Scrolling a list of buttons accidentally clicks buttons and performs poorly2022-02-06
Installing on Windows takes multiple manual steps instead of a single pip install2017-05-09
Documentation is hard to understand2016-10-17
Non-native widgets feel clunky and the custom layout DSL is awkward2016-07-20
Kivy's self-drawn widgets lack accessibility API support, locking out screen reader users2016-01-02
Missing dependencies and undocumented steps make getting started a mess2015-05-04
ListView is dysfunctionally complicated and hard to use for simple tasks2015-04-03
Documentation was very difficult to follow for a newcomer learning Kivy2015-04-03
Crashed the window manager every time it ran, making it unusable2013-12-28
File browser widget is incomplete and behaves unlike a native file selector, confusing users2013-12-28