10th of October 2022 to 16th of October 2022

Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++, and JavaScript. Find more information at https://slint-ui.com/ or go straight to github at https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

Slint UI Library

We had a long planning session this week after Florian has joined us this month, distributing work items over the growing team. We decided to look into four main areas:

• Aurindam will work on the website and marketing
• Florian will work on theming and styling of widgets
• Olivier will improve the Slint language further
• Simon will look into backends, text handling and rendering
• Tobias will cover the tooling aspect of the project

We also visited the EuroRust conference here in Berlin on Thursday and Friday, the first in-person conference in a long time for all of us. EuroRust had a great venue, wonderful food, interesting talks on an entire range of topics, and lots of rustaceans to talk to. Tobias presented on how to mix Rust and C++, showing what we had learned in Slint and had great fun giving the presentation. The audience appreciated the topic and we had a good Q&A session afterwards. Slides are here, a video recording will be available in a couple of weeks.

Fixes

• Initial input method support for the Qt backend (#1728)

  This adds initial support for using input methods on desktop platforms when using Qt.

  Closes #1706

Examples

• Allow for sorting in the todo example (#1721)

  Add a header to the todo example that has a CheckBox to sort the entries by name and a second CheckBox to filter the done items. Also implemented set_row_data for the SortModel and FilterModel (rust and cpp), to allow for item data changes using those model types.

Janitor work

• Continue introducing logical lengths in the core library (#1729)

  This continues the earlier series about introducing explicit euclid logical lengths in the core library to make the coordinate system clear.

Statistics

54 patches committed in 7 pull requests by 4 authors.