I dislike the fancy decorations in GNOME and KDE, and I do not use any desktop environment on my computer. However, many programs still use GTK and expect such

I dislike the fancy decorations in GNOME and KDE, and I do not use any desktop environment on my computer. However, many programs still use GTK and expect such desktop environments, and they have other problems; I prefer Xaw, that you can also use X resource manager files, etc. You could also use command-line programs. Some programs (especially older programs, but also some newer ones that I have written) allow to use pipes with external commands from within the program (for example, Heirloom-mailx allows to write attachments to pipes; I find this very useful, because when someone sends a picture to me, I can use that to view the picture). Web browsers especially have become full of problems. It lacks better controls that the end user can customize and link with other programs etc, and is full of bloated features that don't help and often make it worse anyways. Unfortunately, WWW is a mess, I have some ideas for improvement which are unfortunately still need to be a mess a bit but still can be somewhat better; some of the specifications could be "turned around" to be implemented more usefully for the user instead of the author, e.g. a request/response overriding configuration can substitute for many of the other settings, etc. ARIA might also be helpful in some cases. I also don't like Wayland, and I don't like Unicode either (what someone mentioned is that Unicode makes text processing very slow; apparently that is even worse than I thought). There are parts of the Freedesktop specification which are problematic, in my opinion, too (as well as some parts which are unnecessary but can be avoided). And then there are sandboxing systems to try to improve security, but they have problems too, such as requiring file names to be Unicode (you can't use EUC-TRON), and having rather limited functionality with allowing end users to connect them with other programs, e.g. it does not seem to have a way to ask the user for a command which will be executed by popen. And then, you might want permissions to differ by command-line switches, etc, and that is also difficult. (I do have idea how to make a better one, though.) Those who are trying to avoid this bloat should make packages which are designed to reduce it by making programs (modifying existing ones if necessary, and avoiding certain dependencies, including the most common web browser engines) without D-bus, Wayland, systemd, etc. An operating system with capability-based security (including proxy capabilities too) also would be a good idea, I think. (I have some ideas relating to operating system design; maybe some other people will be able to help with this too)