Regarding GTK/gtkmm: > - building & linking is hell Building GTK itself perhaps. I haven't tried that. However, to use it in an application it appears that ad

Regarding GTK/gtkmm: > - building & linking is hell Building GTK itself perhaps. I haven't tried that. However, to use it in an application it appears that adding a couple lines to your CMakeLists.txt suffices[1]. I've used GTK (in C) in the past and had no problems with the "building the application" part. > - GNOME An explanation for why you see GTK's association with GNOME as a con would be appropriate. > - looks meh How it looks, depends on the theme used. However, I do agree that it "looks meh" with Adwaita (the currently default theme). [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtkmm/UsingCMake https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtkmm/UsingCMake