wxWidgets

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2009–2022), in 13 threads.

People raised many different problems with wxWidgets, 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 16 complaints

Author finds wxWidgets interfaces hard to understand and accept2022-05-18
WxWidgets demos on macOS looked awful and unusable2022-02-07
Underlying macOS changes frequently break wxWidgets, leaving users waiting for slow fixes2021-04-15
Changes in nested sub-panels don't relayout without manually walking up the widget tree2021-04-15
Hard to find the right documentation, and unclear whether feature flags are still valid2021-04-15
Layout system is hard to work with, making basic things like line-wrapping labels hard to do2021-04-15
Cross-platform controls behave inconsistently and HiDPI displays cause major pain2019-04-25
WxWindows is confusing to use, mismatched with Erlang abstractions2018-07-26
Some controls like wxDataViewCtrl were too slow, so the commenter wrote their own2017-12-07
Retrieving current line rescans the whole text buffer repeatedly, making editing slow2017-05-31
File dialog opens in the wrong directory every time2016-09-13
Inconsistent, non-standard controls mixed with standard ones hurt usability2016-03-01
Too many classes and constants, making the library hard to navigate2015-08-19
Leaky abstraction makes simple text box calls unexpectedly slow on large text2013-10-18
Sending custom events is complex and error-prone, requiring badly-documented macros2009-03-29
Hard to understand how to build and link, especially at first2009-01-07