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0 pointsairstrike1y ago0 comments

Halloy has context menus. https://images2.imgbox.com/20/05/yOa1IrVS_o.png

Iced has accessibility listed as the first item on its roadmap after the upcoming 0.13 release. https://whimsical.com/roadmap-iced-7vhq6R35Lp3TmYH4WeYwLM

You're misjudging an experimental library for not having every feature you could ever want before an 1.0 released without doing your diligence. The docs literally open with

    iced is a cross-platform GUI library focused on
    simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
    
    Disclaimer
    ––––––––––
    iced is experimental software

https://docs.iced.rs/iced/

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rafram1y ago

Not text editing context menus like any native app.

As I said, Iced looks awesome. But it's also, as you said, experimental. Using an experimental library for a DE could be a huge mistake, no matter how promising the roadmap is. Ideally you'd wait for the project to ship some of the non-negotiable things on the roadmap (accessibility, system menus, RTL text, keyboard navigation...) before tying your fortunes to it.

airstrikeOP1y ago

I think native context menus are out of scope for iced and probably to be addressed upstream by winit. patches welcome.

at the risk of sounding like a fanboy, I encourage you to try to use iced as a library first to see how powerful it is in terms of performance, ergonomics and overall just the quality of its design. hecrj is a prolific coder and I'm confident I'm not alone in this assessment. I'm pretty bullish on the path ahead for the library given those fundamentals, and I can't speak for the COSMIC team but I imagine that assessment probably overlaps with theirs.

rafram1y ago

I mean text editing context menus (right-click a text field -> Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste). Iced, or at least Halloy, doesn't have those at all.

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0 pointsairstrike1y ago0 comments

Halloy has context menus. https://images2.imgbox.com/20/05/yOa1IrVS_o.png

Iced has accessibility listed as the first item on its roadmap after the upcoming 0.13 release. https://whimsical.com/roadmap-iced-7vhq6R35Lp3TmYH4WeYwLM

You're misjudging an experimental library for not having every feature you could ever want before an 1.0 released without doing your diligence. The docs literally open with

    iced is a cross-platform GUI library focused on
    simplicity and type-safety. Inspired by Elm.
    
    Disclaimer
    ––––––––––
    iced is experimental software

https://docs.iced.rs/iced/

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rafram1y ago

Not text editing context menus like any native app.

airstrikeOP1y ago

I think native context menus are out of scope for iced and probably to be addressed upstream by winit. patches welcome.

rafram1y ago

I mean text editing context menus (right-click a text field -> Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste). Iced, or at least Halloy, doesn't have those at all.

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