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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by gavinray on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:06PM (#28707950)
To save other people the trouble:

The "fyne" framework is a Go UI toolkit, in a similar vein to Qt or GTK. It leverages Go's cross-compilation to compile for various architectures, and has built in utilities for publishing for the iOS/Android app stores.

This appears to be a desktop environment based on the UI toolkit.

*Disclaimer: Interpretation based on 5 minutes of skimming docs

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by drcongo on Thursday September 30, 2021 @12:13PM (#28708030)
Thank you, that actually sounds kinda interesting. Very much not sold on the look of it though.
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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by MrWiffles on Thursday September 30, 2021 @01:18PM (#28708718)
Yeah, personally I think it looks terrible. Like just aesthetically it’s ugly. Purely personal taste though, and I beat no ill will toward the folks behind Fyne. I liked into using it to build a Go desktop app once upon a time, and was just so strongly turned off by Fyne’s look that I just lost all passion for building that project itself entirely. Never even got it off the ground.

Which is totally my fault, for sure, not theirs in the slightest. It’s just…that ugly.

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by mixmastamyk on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:02PM (#28721645)
Unnecessarily negative, do you also kick puppies on the way home?

I looked and it is decent, but needs polish. Which it will get unless broken people keep shitting on it.

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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by moondev on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:20PM (#28710194)
Interesting, so this could be a cross platform desktop environment?
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Re:FyneDesk, a fresh look at what it means to be a desktop e... by andydotxyz on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:45PM (#28711727)
Yup :) For any platform that would allow 3rd party software to run the desktop we could do that. Sadly many block out non-OS software from doing so. But as cross-platform software it can be developed on different OSes as a single window app which makes it easier to code on the move.
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