Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by dropofwill on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:20PM (#28205827)

Druid is still not ready for prime time though (https://www.areweguiyet.com/). Played with psst for a bit: no keyboard shortcuts, no screenreader support, scrollbar feels 'off', stuff that just works if you use a native toolkit or a browser.

I get that this is early days for this project, but the issues are general for all of these non-browser, non-native UI toolkits. Hopefully we get there though.

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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by jpochyla on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:02AM (#28207696)

Hi, the author here. Keyboard navigation is definitely something I'd like to focus on soon, the app should be 100% usable without a mouse. And accessibility is definitely on the Druid roadmap! <3

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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by raphlinus on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:01AM (#28206103)

Keyboard shortcuts should be doable, I don't think this is a limitation of the toolkit.

Obviously screen readers are an important step, but we hope to be working with AccessKit.

In any case, though I'm not trying to represent Druid as ready for production use, I love seeing stuff like this. I think it's a good sign of what's possible and where things are headed.

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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by mkj on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:45PM (#28205993)

Trying psst here on Linux I came away with the opposite impression - Druid's further along than I expected, it Just Worked at high DPI on Wayland better than most electron apps. I guess it'd feel worse on MacOS which already has a more consistent system UI.

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