Iced, a popular GUI Crate, used by system76 for their new DE, is getting default animation support in the development branch. The animations are based on the lilt crate. As far as I know the only missing part that needs to be done is, adding animations to the default widgets.
I assume in the next release it will be shipped with animation support.
I am so happy that this is coming and look forward to see animations in my gui applications.
This is good.
Three things I would like to see:
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Starting to systematically add widgets. For example tabbed controls are missing. There is some extra crate, but this should be included in the main iced crate (I think).
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Declarative ui definition like slint of xaml in wpf
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Not sure if it is there already, but the ability to style widgets in a good way. For example to replicate how Windows 10 looked like
- I dont realy understand what you mean by tabbed controls. If you mean keyboard navigation, that is directly ahead on the roadmap.
- Take a look at the macros the iced::widget module provides. This is pretty much a declarative ui definition.
- In the last version update a new styling system was introduced. It is way simpler then the old approach. I am sure you can create a custom theme that looks pretty much like win10/11.
Thanks for clarifying things.
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Tabbed controls I mean equivalent of QTabBar and QTab if we talk qt framework. But these are just examples. Maybe I am wrong, I just briefly went over the list of Widgets, so might have missed it. What I think is super important is to mainly catch up to this: https://slint.dev/demos/gallery?style=material
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I did take a look at it a while ago, maybe I should do it again. I like the way slint did it since you can have a live editor to preview your layout.
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Ok. This sounds great.
