Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by AlienRobot on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:09AM
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One of the biggest problems with GIMP and Inkscape is how GTK renders numeric inputs. Look at the size of those +/- icons on the toolbar. For drawing software with lots of numeric inputs, that means an insane waste of space. Proprietary software like DaVinci and even Photopea have much smaller inputs, allowing them to create far more complex GUIs and featuring without cluttering the window.
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Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by rcxdude on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:02AM
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Tbh, you could summarise a lot of the issues with their UI as "GTK"
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by TingPing on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:41PM
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GIMP is far from a nice example of what GTK can do…
Re:Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI
by rcxdude on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:12PM
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For sure, which is ironic given it was the application GTK was created to support. But even so, I don't think I've ever really seen a GTK-based application I actually liked (the rest of the UI is going to have to make up for the atrocious file picking dialog, for example)