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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.
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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.
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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.
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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.
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Bloody frustrating trying to find stuff that's not LLM-tainted now.
I want to build a launcher, ultimately for Wayland, though if I can support X11 with it too… fantastic, there are plenty of X11 window managers that could benefit from something that reads FreeDesktop.org .menu / .desktop files and builds up a menu tree to navigate.
I'm thinking of building this in C++, since gcc have, for now, said they will decline "legally significant LLM content". So far the only bit I know that has ingested slop there is Fortran.
Years ago, I'd have reached for Qt for this, but they embrace the slop now.
Fine, how about FLTK? Nope, they have inhaled as well.
WxWidgets? Just checked their Github page… "A user you have blocked has contributed" (claude).
Tk? Wayland is a work-in-progress. X11 only for now.
Motif? Does anyone use that in 2026?
Xaw? You got to be joking…GTK+ *looks* clean so far… but then again, I said that about wxWidgets a month back … and I utterly detest dealing with GTK… but that might be my only viable option.
Ugh I hate this timeline.