Products · Broad category
Non-native GUI toolkits
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Non-native GUI toolkits, 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 5 complaints
- Non-native widgets break in many ways when the system theme differs from defaults2025-12-12
- Keyboard hotkeys like F10, Alt+Space and Tab are disabled, so windows can't be operated from the keyboard2023-10-13
- Ctrl+V with text highlighted doesn't replace the selection as it does on Windows2022-07-16
- Custom controls lack spell checking, OS behaviours, and accessibility support2020-10-15
- Cross-platform apps break keyboard focus, shortcuts, accessibility features and OS conventions2019-01-25