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What I’ve been missing in tauri is being able to manipulate the window title bar similar to firefox or vscode (electron actually allows this).

Anyway, regarding your IPC bottleneck: I found it faster to spawn a local websocket server in rust and let my vue app connect to it. It’s really ugly and I hate myself for working like this, but albeit the tcp overhead it is actually faster for transferring bigger amounts of data than IPC.

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Ah yeah, I miss the title bar access too. I had a “# days remaining” button there in the first version of the app when it was native to Mac and went with something less slick this time. The nice thing about Tauri is the native access if you need it, and I think this is probably possible because you can get a handle to the native window, and call native Mac APIs to e.g. access the title bar view and add subviews to it. (of course the downside is having to adapt that code to every platform)

My workaround for the IPC stuff was to just avoid sending binary data at all. I originally wanted to send video frames but it was pretty quickly clear that would not work well at all. So I just send commands, and serialize the timeline back and forth, and do the video on a native layer.

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