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by olivier1664 3418 days ago
I would love to see some improvement in the desktop GUI libs.

- GTK is a painfull to install.

- Conrod: I was unable to do an hello world application with it. It just miss some tutorial.

- KISS-UI: some dll to install

- Qt: not totally free

- Neon to plug on Electron: I'm not sure if I can do some callback from Rust to the GUI with this method.

I finnally give up to play with Electron in javascript.
3 comments
lmm 3418 days ago
> Qt: not totally free

Qt has been free for decades and is LGPL these days, about as free as it gets. Is there some Rust-specific issue, or is this just decades-old FUD from the GNOME project?

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gcp 3418 days ago
GTK is a painfull to install.

Also pretty bad on Windows AFAIK?

My personal wish would be for an easy way to use Servo to render the UI.

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blaenk 3418 days ago
That's actually a cool idea. IIRC Servo was even (going to?) comply to the chromium embedded framework API/ABI so that it could be a drop-in replacement. If they're doing that, hopefully they'll go further in creating a rich API for embedding.
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flukus 3417 days ago
> GTK is a painfull to install.

Also no longer cross platform. LibUI (https://github.com/andlabs/libui) looks promising but I don't think the rust bindings are being worked on.

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