Making Slint Desktop-Ready

[aurindam]

Discussion thread for the blog post Making Slint Desktop-Ready

🚀 Rich Text Support in Text Elements,
🚀 Keyboard Shortcuts,
🚀 Global Drag & Drop,
🚀 Modal Windows / Dialogs,
🚀 Popup Window Improvements,
🚀 Tooltips,
🚀 System Tray Support,
🚀 Two-Way Bindings.

[xb284524239]

Congratulations, Slint is getting better and better!

Besides this, could you please add an automatic update feature to Slint? For desktop applications, it would be very useful to allow the application to automatically detect new versions and guide users through the update process!

[aurindam]

Thanks for the feedback. Please add a GitHub issue so that this is not lost in the discussion :)

[xb284524239]

Ok, I will do.

[lion-artiste]

Hello, I'm so excited to see this, congratulations for this big milestone 😄

I'm developing my commercial DAW from scratch with Rust and Slint since almost eight months, and I'm really happy to see that the framework is growing and reaching maturity ! There are still some functionalities that are slowing or blocking me at the moment, but this is a big step forward, especially the shortcuts management system.

Also, to be sure, will it be possible to setup keyboard shortcuts programatically ? Like, passing them as an array to the main window and use them (or at least display them) where needed ? I need my DAW to have editable shortcuts, those shortcuts triggering specific actions in Rust, so I hope this new functionality will be as flexible as possible ! I already implemented a custom keyboard management system through a global callback, so I'm wondering how this will fit in my current implementation.

Thank you for your hard work, Slint is precious :)
Greetings from France

[aurindam]

Thanks :) Can you please add these comments #102 so that we can keep track of them?