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Comment #46015238
…which appears to wrap the png crate. (Good, so not a rewrite)
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Comment #45543060
On macOS and Windows, the menubar is native. On Windows, context menus are, too. On macOS it‘s a small patch away, we just haven‘t gotten around. ( https://github.com/slint-ui/slin…
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Comment #41528493
What’s the difference between having your data in an AWS data center versus having it in Hetzner’s data center from the point of view of “private data in cloud”? (Good move IMO nev…
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Comment #38721668
If you scroll all the way down, you can see at least a similar look of “the band” :)
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Comment #36479240
The closest I can think of is for you to insert one or multiple soft-hyphens.
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Comment #36396999
We do have initial support for screen readers. That’s using accesskit, or Qt when using the Qt backend. It’s still basic, some controls like text input need work, or customizing th…
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Comment #35958695
We're working on interop, so that when you select Slint's Skia renderer on top of Vulkan or Metal, you can import a wgpu texture if wgpu's Metal or Vulkan adapter was chosen. What …
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Comment #35497835
A typed and tooled (lsp, live-preview, etc) DSL for the UI and Rust/C++20 APIs, compared to C APIs.
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Comment #35421309
You might find this article helpful from my colleague Tobias: https://slint-ui.com/blog/rust-and-cpp.html
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Comment #33594671
We're not trying to be clever, TBH. There are many excellent alternatives out there in the Rust world. Our choice of Rust is primarily a technical choice, and later we found out th…
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Comment #33594438
I think the distinction that you may be missing is between software generally licensed under the Apache license and software that is part of the Apache project and governed by the …
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Comment #31592205
SixtyFPS GmbH | https://slint-ui.com/careers.html | Berlin/Germany | Embedded Software Development (Rust and C++) | Remote(EU) | Fulltime | 40k-70k€ Slint is a toolkit to efficient…
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Comment #30818082
No :)
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Comment #28852400
Short of building distribution packages and offering those as binaries for the download, this seems like a simple way to offer a download. It's not perfect though, and I think we'r…
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Comment #28851006
One of the lesson that I believe is being learned is that general purpose programming languages for UIs make it difficult to do tooling, especially with dynamic typing. This partic…
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Comment #26966386
No worries :)
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Comment #26960586
Maybe it could be brought over the top by compiling Qt to wasm and mixing that in. A bit tricky with the emscripten runtime vs wasm32-unknown-unknown target mixing of Rust though ;…
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Comment #26960539
Python should be fairly straightforward to do. Golang with the interpreter we well, but the RealThing(tm) would be a full code generator and binding to the runtime library. That wo…
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Comment #26960489
Sad to hear that it’s not fluent for you :( We went for dual licensing (GPL / commercial) in hope of creating a sustainable project. We do have basic focus handling but the demos d…
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Comment #26960034
Lsp can be used with any IDE, better markup language (static typing, proper module concept), rust and JS APIs, markup compiled to proper C++/Rust AOT, compiler can do asset optimiz…
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Comment #26959210
We try hard to avoid that. No magic context properties, good modularity across files (js module concept). Easy to write components. But there is more work to be done.