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whiplashoo

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    I built Shortcut Keeper ( https://shortcutkeeper.com ), a desktop app that lets you save keyboard shortcuts. It was mainly born out of my need to re-learn a lot of hotkeys when swi…

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    Comment #34647668

    Last year, I built a desktop app with Flutter with native-looking UI, for both macOS and Windows: https://blog.whidev.com/native-looking-desktop-app-with-flut... Indeed, multi-wind…

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    Comment #29864088

    Even if you can spot a non-native app in seconds, does it really matter? The vast majority of users simply won't notice and not care at all if it's native or built with Flutter, Xa…

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    Comment #29270153

    I wrote another relevant post, if you are interested: https://blog.whidev.com/same-features-macos-to-windows-with-...

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    Plan to port this to Linux as well! Haven't look a lot about the available UI design option, but this could be useful: https://pub.dev/packages/yaru

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    Thanks for the kind words! Building can be a hassle, as you can only produce the release version on the host machine. This means there is a bit of back and forth between my Windows…

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    Will check it out, thanks for the feedback!

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    Yes! OP here, and I fully agree with your comments. Indeed, it should be trivial to make a separate package to handle picking the right UI component for each platform. And yes, the…

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    OP here! It wasn't that hard to handle the conditional logic for the UI components. It can also be encapsulated in a separate package, something that is already available for Flutt…

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    Yes, that's certainly possible. It is also done for iOS and Android (Cupertino and Material) by another package: https://github.com/stryder-dev/flutter_platform_widgets It indeed c…

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    Hi HN, Author of the post here! Didn't expect this to be posted here and making the rounds, so I will try to give some more context. First, you can check a short presentation of th…

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    https://www.insider.gr/epiheiriseis/189895/efood-metatrepei-... There is a screenshot of the original e-mail that the company sent here. They state that 'according to your batch, w…

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    https://www.insider.gr/epiheiriseis/189895/efood-metatrepei-... There is a screenshot of the original e-mail that the company sent here. They state that 'according to your batch, w…

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    Comment #28575218

    https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1168101/food-delivery-app-...

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    Negative reviews from customers or the restaurants/fast foods they were delivering for.

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    Why? It all started with the e-mail that e-Food sent (admittedly not well-vetted), which was shared on social media and went viral. People started writing negative reviews, startin…

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    Before grabbing the pitchforks on this, please note that: - The email they sent was about ~100 of the 3,000+ delivery drivers that had a low performance rating. - Instead of just t…