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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by cztomsik on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:18PM (#22658756)
Both reasons are why I'm trying to develop an OSS alternative with easiness & platform-independence of the web but much lower system requirements than what electron has.

I'm currently close to prealpha, if you're interested. https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti/

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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by jamesgeck0 on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:52PM (#22659058)
Under project scope, there's this statement:

> To name just a few things you usually don't need: ... flawless i18n & accessibility

Lack of basic accessibility support is (or should be) a complete nonstarter for any serious project.

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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by DonHopkins on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:05PM (#22660012)
I'd demand better than basic accessibility support!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSh0dAaqIA

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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by cztomsik on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:34AM (#22727488)
you can join the effort and help me, the scope is limited to something I can do myself in reasonable time :-)
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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by Macha on Sunday March 22, 2020 @08:18PM (#22660089)
This is ultimately why I went with gtk in a recent Rust project. Qt bindings are a pain, and the license stuff was coming out. But most of the native Rust GUI libraries don't even try. Maybe its a maturity thing and they'll get there but I picked GTK for now
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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by mwcampbell on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:26AM (#22663345)
Note though that GTK has no accessibility support on Windows and Mac. If you're only targeting GNOME, then that's fine. For something that's more or less accessible cross-platform, I'd go with wxWidgets or something Web-based.
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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by gmueckl on Sunday March 22, 2020 @07:38PM (#22659854)
Also, what is "flawless" i18n support?
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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by cztomsik on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:36AM (#22727495)
To have what browsers do. And getting there would take few months on its own so it's not a priority right now.
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Re:Audacious 4.0 released, switches from GTK to Qt 5 by wccrawford on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:34PM (#22658899)
A friend and I were just wishing something like this existed. "pre-prealpha" is a bit too early for me, but I definitely wish you luck in this.
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