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Agreed, seems like a lot of unnecessary girating just to implement something that would've been much simpler + cross-platform with a custom UI toolkit and something like opengl. Tabs are like UI 101


Easier integration with the desktops accessibility and input stack? When using GTK, you would probably also get out the box better performance/power on Wayland since it can take care of partial surface updates etc for you.


Luckily the UI and the core (libghostty) are separate so you can girate out your own UI 101 version without GTK if you'd like.


And someone already did: https://github.com/gabydd/wraith (Wayland-only frontend, extremely lightweight). Super cool.




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