> CSS classes GTK has gotten so fat that it's more like a 2nd-rate Electron. Not...

TUSF · 2025-08-15T22:12:08 1755295928

The negative aspects of Electron have little to nothing to do with CSS, and you're only invoking it here to poison the well by association.

nothankyou777 · 2025-08-15T22:55:07 1755298507

You are projecting. Personally speaking, I would choose Electron waaaay before I'd choose GTK. That probably wasn't an option for his optimized terminal, but would be Good Enough™ for just about anything else.

tristan957 · 2025-08-15T17:39:02 1755279542

What does this have to do with Ghostty?

nothankyou777 · 2025-08-15T17:53:29 1755280409

Are we looking at the same title?

We rewrote the Ghostty *G* *T* *K* application

The article about struggling... with GTK.

tristan957 · 2025-08-15T18:33:04 1755282784

You didn't explain anything wrong with GTK. You just brought up Electron out of nowhere.

nothankyou777 · 2025-08-15T19:06:48 1755284808

Electron is bringing an entire web browser in to provide a cross-platform user interface. GTK has become almost a web browser to provide a cross-platform user interface. That is why I started off with

> CSS classes

To spell it out, I think it is all excessive.

tristan957 · 2025-08-16T04:09:45 1755317385

I don't think you know enough about GTK if you think having a CSS parser is bloat in a UI toolkit versus a whole theming engine.

nothankyou777 · 2025-08-16T05:10:21 1755321021

Their CSS implementation is broader than what most actual browsers had 10 years ago. I would not have commented if I weren't already painfully familiar.

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-overview.html

It even has a DOM inspector window:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/597259/how-do-i-open-gtk-ins...