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Librum
- Apple should learn from open source project
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Librum: Open-Source e-book platform
>Why should they have to justify providing free software?
They don't, but they have to be honest about what they're presenting. There's this shitty motte-and-bailey situation in open source where their website ( https://librumreader.com/ ) looks like marketing for a serious application - but the moment you treat it like a serious application, people are like "it's free, why are you treating it like a serious application?".
Look:
>Simplicity
>Focus on what actually matters, using a simple and straight forward interface.
>Your time is too valuable to be wasted on complex applications.
What does the tone here convey? Is it "this is just a cool project I wrote"?
- Librum: Simple, Open Source, Free E-Book Reader
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Looking for opensource designers
Thank you for reading, here are links to the project if you want to take a look: Our current website: https://librumreader.com The client application: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum
- Looking for opensource developers
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Github actions - Handle "heavy" dependencies
Hey, I want to add CI to a project that depends on a big framework and some smaller linux libraries (https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum). I have a command that installs all dependencies on ubuntu, but it takes some minutes to install all of these libraries.
- React / Js developers for an opensource project
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Looking for advice on financial problems with opensource applications
Thank you in advance for any advice on this topic (For some context, here is my project's github repository: (https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum)
sciter
- Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components
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Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
> wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries
There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com
> I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex.
It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge.
Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and iterating them in reverse for RTL is brain-breaking. And line wrapping gets really complicated. It's also the most obscure because nobody has written down everything you need to know in one place. After I finished block layout early on, I had to stop for a couple of years (only working a few hours a week though) and learn all of the ins, outs, dos, and don'ts around shaping and itemizing text. A lot of that I learned by reading Pango's [1] source code, and a lot I pieced together from Google searches.
But other than that, the W3C specifications cover almost everything. The CSS2 standard [2] is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. It's internally consistent, concise, and obviously the result of years of deliberation, trial and error. (CSS3 is great, but CSS2 is the bedrock for everything).
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/
- Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy
- Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
otherwise, if we have only retained mode as in browsers, we will need to modify the DOM heavily and create temporary elements for handles.
[1] https://sciter.com
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more
I've still never used it but I've long been curious about Sciter:
https://sciter.com
- Ode to the M1
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So you want to write a GUI framework (2021)
These bullet points are exactly what I did in Sciter (https://sciter.com)
- Windowing
-- Tabs
-- Menus
-- Painting
-- Animation
-- Text
-The compositor
-Handling input
-- Pointer input
-- Keyboard input
- Accessibility
- Internationalization and localization
- Cross-platform APIs
- The web view
- Native look and feel
On top of that DOM and CSS implementations to achieve declarative UI. And JS as a languuage behind UI - declarative in some sense way of defining UI behavior.
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Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
I'm not sure if it can support all the libraries but yes it can be used to make desktop apps. Theres also Sciter.
https://sciter.com/
What are some alternatives?
koodo-reader - A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
calibre - The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly
Librum-Server - The Librum server
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
Tasker - A commitment tracker desktop app that tracks the progress of your tasks with mouse, keyboard and audio hooks.
flexboard - React component library for re-sizable sidebars
KrakenZPlayground - Fun interaction and play with NZXT Kraken Z AIOs
RmlUi - RmlUi - The HTML/CSS User Interface library evolved
Dependencies - A rewrite of the old legacy software "depends.exe" in C# for Windows devs to troubleshoot dll load dependencies issues.
NanoGUI - Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL