I am guessing wp_pointer_warp_v1 in Wayland, but not sure if all compositors support that. And that is just for moving the cursor. Can we "send" a wl_pointer click like that?
I have a nice setup on my Linux for iOS apps. I compiled the OSXCross toolchain, and also copied iPhoneOS.sdk and iPhoneSimulator.sdk from the macOS VM. With some wrappers, I can compile iOS apps (Obj-C) on my Linux machine, sign them with zsign, and use go-ios to install them on the device.
At first, I just used simulator builds to test (and debug) on the macOS VM, in the simulator, but that was slow and painful. Finally, I bought a used iPhone, all bruised, just so I could test it on a real device. The main issue for me was signing, one cannot register a macOS VM (maybe with some kext hacks?), I managed to enable developer mode on the phone (crazy process, but it worked with Xcode in a VM), I registered the phone on the website, and paid those damn 99$.
I used that for my cross-platform UI library with native controls, based on IUP. Now, future users of the UI toolkit do not need to care about Mac, iOS, or tooling; it just works. You can check the toolkit (WIP) here https://github.com/gen2brain/iup-go .
100% of the employers I worked for (one employee) never did that switch. The license did not affect us; we had nothing to do with AWS and the like, so we just continued using Redis like before. We already had our RPM builds, so whatever course distros took, we did not even care to look.
What does "scale"even mean in UI context? 10 or 100 controls in app makes difference how exactly? Retained apps redraw when needed, they are idle most of the times. How redrawing every frame helps to scale?
Disaster. Well, I read stories about Rust and how there isn't much in the stdlib, but this is just too much. How many dependencies are there, on average, in other projects? I guess I am spoiled with Go.
But this is also just silly. The maintainer here did nothing (just a little chat here and there), but is sure that only optimizations are missing for this to be production-ready. How so, based on what exactly?
I have been working for several months (maybe half a year) on the IUP fork, a cross-platform UI library with native controls https://github.com/gen2brain/iup-go . I added more drivers/backends, Cocoa, WinUI, Qt, GTK4, FLTK, and EFL. New controls, like Table, Popover, Toggle SWITCH, and modern Tray support. WebBrowser control uses modern browsers; there is a JAVASCRIPT attribute for proper hybrid native/web apps. GLCanvas now uses EGL for both X11 and Wayland, and of course, there is proper Wayland support for all Linux toolkits. I still have a long list of TODO with issues I want to fix, all the docs that need updating, etc. The plan is to post a "Show HN" after I finish with all current tasks.
I remember there was a kernel module for the Matrox/MPlayer combination. You get a new device that MPlayer could use. You did get `-vo mga` for the console and `-vo xmga` for X11; you couldn't tell the difference, and both produced high-quality hardware YUV output.
This is an older thinkpad I am using, 4 cores, 16G of ram. LLVM is now dependency you cannot get rid of. That is painfull, but in the morning, after several hours it is usually done. Rust is LLVM plus I am not sure what, really painfull. And Gentoo also forces many different arches and flags for some reason, use flags are masked, you cannot easily disable them.
Error handling in Go is actually very nice. You do not have unhandled errors, not possible unless you really want to not handle the error. Now I even use it similar in Python, amazing how many errors I did not handle at all. But what got me into using Go is that there is no libc dependency, just system calls, static binary, that is just amazing. I can compile Go compiler in like few minutes. Rust I cannot even compile after 24h, I use rust-bin in Gentoo,luckily that exists.
Window positioning? You cannot position the window, you cannot send a hint, nothing? So my pop-up with GTK4 will randomly be placed somewhere, anywhere, without any control. OK, GTK4 went further and also removed popups without the parent, so you hack that with an invisible anchor window and then write platform-specific code for sane platforms that CAN, of course, move the window. And let's not talk about window icons that you have to put somewhere on the file system?
I like how even the nus product (jpegli) is a significant improvement. I am in the process of converting my comic book collection. I save a lot of space and still use JPEG, which is universally supported.
IUP has custom-drawn controls for tables and cells (additional controls), and it uses another CD (canvas draw) library for that, not internal IUP Draw functions. I also started rewriting that to use the core IUP drawing functions instead. I also added a few more drawing functions, for rounded rectangles, bezier curves, and gradients. But ALL drivers, including Motif, have native table controls, so I really want to add one.
Edit: Also, the GLcanvas control now has an EGL driver, with native Wayland support for GTK3, GTK4, and Qt6 (needs private headers). I modernized a bit of everything, added support for APPID, DARKMODE, etc. Linux uses xdg-open rather than hardcoding browsers. Win32 driver is not using the Internet Explorer web control but the WebView2 with custom loader, on GTK, you do not have to worry about the WebKitGTK, it will find the correct library with dlopen, etc, etc. But, there is still a lot to do.
To me, this argument always sounds like someone is being forced or threatened into creating a desktop app. It was never supposed to be easy; the goal is to create an app that users would want and will actually use.
I am working on the UI library and bindings for Go. Still not finished, but currently, the same app can be compiled for Win32, Cocoa, GTK2, GTK3, GTK4, Qt5, Qt6, and Motif. There is a web browser control, a GL canvas, and a regular canvas. I still work on the native table control, though.
I often use <img> with "width" on GitHub, so that I do not have the scrollbars on the main page, and one can click on the image to see the original size. It is ugly, but what is the alternative in Markdown? Several images instead of one?
I know a few apps that did the same (mpv for example). If you still have it in home root it uses that, when you move it to .config it uses that instead. Auto migrating could and would create issues.
People are talking about AI everywhere, but where can we find documentation, examples, and proof of how it works? It all ends with chat. Which chat is better and cheaper? This local story is just using some publicly available model, but downloaded? When is this going to stop?
I do not give up on my openbox. I use it with LxQt. Now there is a Labwc, similar to openbox. It uses its XML spec for config and is similar. But I am still on X until all issues are resolved. Can I use openbox on KDE now? It used to be possible, I can choose WM in LxQt. Back then every WM had a --replace option.