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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by AlienRobot on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:02AM (#50404609)
Why https://gpui.rs/ doesn't have a single screenshot of how it actually looks?

The first thing anyone would want to know when choosing a GUI framework is how it looks by default. Every major GUI toolkit has screenshots on their websites.

This happens so often it makes me wonder if people just don't know how to take a screenshot and put it in a webpage with <img>.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Grombobulous on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:10AM (#50404689)
Probably because it's not meant to be like Bootstrap.js where everyone's UI looks identical?
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by small_scombrus on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:13AM (#50404703)
Even still, some screenshots of here's something we made earlier are always nice to see what's possible
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by AlienRobot on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:22AM (#50404779)
Even imgui has screnshots.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by thisismyanon2 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:47AM (#50411222)
gpui is meant to be a fairly low level library. If you want screenshots check out zed, but be aware that for many use cases you'll have to roll your own widgets.

gpui-kit (formerly gpui-component) provides a richer set of widgets and a Javascript shell. Screenshots can be found here:

https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-kit/discussions/989

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by jen20 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:38AM (#50414756)
I don't know about you but I _want_ all UIs to look identical - specifically I want them to look like they belong on the platform I use, not the fever dream of some product person.
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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by rstat1 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:45PM (#50408748)
Click either of the 2 links at the top right of the page, and you get screenshots of GPUI apps.
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