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scrivanodev

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About scrivanodev

Developer of Scrivano for Handwritten Notes https://scrivanolabs.github.io

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    I can only speak for Flatpak, but I found its packaging workflow and restricted runtime terrible to work with. Lots of undocumented/hard to find behaviour and very painful to integ…

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    Comment #46421300

    There shouldn't be any noticeable performance difference between Qt 5 and Qt 6, unless you're using QML.

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    Comment #46419203

    I also think Qt/QML is a very underrated technology. I have been developing a handwritten notes for Linux/Windows using Qt Quick for quite some time [0]. The experience has been a …

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    Comment #46324096

    How do you enforce licensing? Did you build your own solution?

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    Comment #46294553

    QML is a great language to make GUIs. A few years ago I tried XAML, and it honestly kind of sucked in comparison (the verbosity alone made it painful to work with). I haven't tried…

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    I have completely disabled the history feature, so when I navigate to the homepage there's no "recommended" content. I rely on search exclusively to find what I need. Also I don't …

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    Comment #44293410

    What would you replace YouTube with? To my its educational value is unmatched. I owe so much of my learning to it.

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    Comment #44089372

    The vast majority of FLOSS projects are underfunded and we have far more cases of projects that had to shutdown because they lacked funding than projects that were successfully abl…

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    Comment #41982226

    Very interesting experiment. I've been working on a handwriting application [0] for the past couple of years and incorporating the ability to take a picture to convert it into digi…

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    Comment #40263805

    I see, but that's also possible with CMake right? You can use ccache or sccache via -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache/sccache.

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    Comment #40263712

    How does Bazel help reduce build times?

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    Comment #39980503

    > I don't want to build a complete UI system from the ground up, but there are certain points where I'd like to be able to customize things, like adding new widgets and having some…