Honestly, "native UI" gets so much worse with every passing year that I don't even want native UI. I want old windows UI.
I saw a screenshot of GTK 1 and the first thing I thought is that I'd rather make something using GTK 1 than GTK 3. Unfortunately I asked an AI chatbot about it and they advised against it because of "security" :(
That's the false assumption that unmaintained is insecure. Any old DOS game in Dosbox would be insecure by that logic.
So if I run Dune2 in dosbox, is that a security issue? Of course not, but if you were to load a bitmap from the network and feed it to GTK1 for displaying, there could well be an overlooked issue lurking around. But you need to look at the greater picture, not just "old==insecure"
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Honestly, "native UI" gets so much worse with every passing year that I don't even want native UI. I want old windows UI.
I saw a screenshot of GTK 1 and the first thing I thought is that I'd rather make something using GTK 1 than GTK 3. Unfortunately I asked an AI chatbot about it and they advised against it because of "security" :(
That's the false assumption that unmaintained is insecure. Any old DOS game in Dosbox would be insecure by that logic.
So if I run Dune2 in dosbox, is that a security issue? Of course not, but if you were to load a bitmap from the network and feed it to GTK1 for displaying, there could well be an overlooked issue lurking around. But you need to look at the greater picture, not just "old==insecure"
You might like FLTK if you don't care about matching native UI, and appreciate 90's design sensibilities. Unlike GTK 1.x it is still maintained.
Does the chat bot brush your teeth for you too?