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Comment by airstrike

6 days ago

I'm super biased in favor of iced.

Yes, there are missing features (it's not even version 1.0 yet!) but I think the number is very small now and the solution is usually to fill in the gaps yourself—which is possible because iced is totally modular

I've made a spreadsheet editor and a slideshow editor with it so "slimmed down photoshop" seems feasible although admittedly you will likely need to get deep into the renderer (possibly write your own renderer traits and there), but I suppose you're comfortable with that given your goal.

If you're not allergic to Discord, come join us. It's a helpful, awesome tight community IMHO

Link for the lazy: https://discord.gg/3xZJ65GAhd

Project link: https://iced.rs

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Macha  6 days ago

No support for RTL or CJK text, IMEs, or accessibility tools leaves it pretty firmly in the "toy" category for me for now, sadly.

This isn't meant to bash on the project specifically, basically the only tools that meet that criteria are platform native UIs, the web stack (including Electron), Qt and Flutter.

AccessKit is promising to change that but I haven't checked in a while how it's going. I did see GTK looking into it as a cross platform option as GTK's accessibility support only works on the Linux desktop currently

  • goku12  6 days ago

    > No support for RTL or CJK text, IMEs, or accessibility tools leaves it pretty firmly in the "toy" category for me for now, sadly.

    I18n, L10n and A11y tend to be very challenging features, making your wishlist a tall order. Solving that will require a larger developer mindshare. (I'm not sure how much of the existing frameworks can be reused here).

    > basically the only tools that meet that criteria are platform native UIs ...

    Here's the good news! Iced is already a platform native UI toolkit. It powers the Cosmic desktop and a few important applications are based on it. Iced is sure to receive a lot of attention once Cosmic stabilizes. Hopefully, you will get your wish sooner than later.

  • airstrike  6 days ago

    In that case, I'm happy to let you know your info is outdated. CJK/IME support has landed.

    https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/2777

    • echelon  6 days ago

      すごい！Japanese is one of our localization targets, so this is amazing!

      I'm building a graphically heavy app, so two more questions:

      1) Is iced appropriate for building a canvas-type drawing app with image inclusions? Right now we're using Konva.js and we'd be losing a tremendous amount of out of the box flexibility in porting to iced, but the performance wins would be a major selling point.

      2) Can you include Bevy panes? We're also doing some 3D visualization, and we currently use Three.js. But we have a lot of Bevy experience too.

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