I really like Slint.
It has Python bindings, tho you wouldn't know it from the docs as it's brand new bindings.
However, it does WORK, and it works well.
Just look for python files in the examples and reference the slint docs (it uses its own UI lang for that stuff anyway).
I'm currently making an application in Python using Slint, and I really like it.
It also supports embedded systems, the web, and multiple languages, AND since it has its own UI lang, you can reuse parts of your UI code across different codebases
It seems to suit your use case.
Other than that, I second Godot.
HOWEVER
Godot's GD Script is not Python but rather a Python-like language. (in fact, in some ways, I'm glad it's not; there are things I prefer in GD Script).
This is important as you may want to use specific Python libraries which won't work with Godot!
You can, however, use GD Native to bind C++ code and thus C++ libraries, so you'll still be able to get done whatever you need to get done.
If you're not tied to Python, then I recommend the Rust library Iced as it is a very intuitive system. I really enjoy working with it.
Although, that said, Slint has great support for Rust, so maybe I'd recommend Slint anyway if you were gonna change language.
Avoid GTK, Qt, and TK at all costs imo. Also WinForms if ur on Windows.
They're old and crusty, and their APIs suck to use, even modern versions, and despite being aged, they're buggy still, not robust "tried-and-true" methods.
It's also hard to do dynamic stuff with them.
Just not well designed systems. Important, valuable to know bc they're used all over, but not well designed
I would also try ImGUI.
It's meant more for gamedev UIs rather than Apps themselves (tho I've made a couple in it)
BUT
It's a totally different way of doing UI called "Immediate" bc you program the elements in a big loop, rather than event driven.
It's interesting and worth trying as a learning experience
And ofc, the Javascript/Electron world is huge and React is very popular with lots of tools. At least read up on it.
Well, it's gotta be a tiling system. And a good one. At this point I can't function in a non-tiling environment. Specifically a manual tiler with an auto-tile a la i3 w/ i3-alternating-layout or a dynamic tiler that still let's you break stuff (doesn't really exist).
It's just a better way to use a computer, and I can't go back. It's so much nicer. I would stop using a computer before I go back to dragging windows around.
And that rules out most DEs. It rules out Mac OS and Windows, as well, but at least on Windows I can almost get by with Fancy WM. It's "okay."
And speaking of just getting by, that's Polonium with KDE. KDE is pretty good as an "environment," but it doesn't have a tiler that meets my needs, or at least I thought it didn't until recently. Then I discovered Polonium. It works pretty well. Used it for several months (and still do on one machine). It's very bare bones tho, and is hard to configure the handful of floating windows I do want like popups. So KDE is just scraping by.
GNOME on the other hand has the excellent Pop Shell 2. But well, GNOME is GNOME. It's buggy when you try to use it a different way than intended. God forbid I want Qt, Gtk2, Gtk3, Gtk4, and libadwaita apps to all look nice on my system! It's clunky, but the tiling is excellent at least.
Now you mention XFCE. So what about that? You could use i3 as the WM for Xfce. I used i3 for years and years and years as my WM and know how to build a DE around it. Why not use Xfce + i3?
Well, the thing is X11 is as good as dead, and while XFCE now supports Wayland, you can't use a tiling system with the Wayland version of XFCE.
So what does that leave me?
Nothing. At least for a full on DE, which is what you asked.
There is not a single (pre-made) Desktop Environment that suits my needs. Not a one. Either it doesn't support good tiling, is too rigid, or hasn't switched to Wayland.
My only options are:
Right now I'm on Hyprland. May go back to KDE bc multi monitor is being weird on Hyprland rn.
My one hope is that COSMIC polishes itself up and gets to its first real release.
You can put anything in your dialog box
I made a shortcut that's Ctrl + S to save and Ctrl + X to exit, so I don't have to remember it and have now forgotten to make room for more Rust knowledge
So... pure functional programming w/ out state?
That’s why kernel anti-cheat is effective
Is it actually effective tho?
Sweet! Now that 4.20 is officially released it's in Nixpkgs. That means xfce4-panel is 4.20 in unstable
Might go back to Hyprland from KDE now that there's a half-decent bar for Wayland compositors!
Sweet! Now that 4.20 is officially released it's in Nixpkgs. That means xfce4-panel is 4.20 in unstable
Might go back to Hyprland from KDE now that there's a half-decent bar for Wayland compositors!
Yes. The only way to send patches without something like Github is over email. I don't mind all the other stuff, but there's no other way to do PRs than over email, and I hate email. I didn't see that he gave alternatives. His preferred solution was an email
The formal PR button in a forge is a way to do that with one click, but a short email with all the same information is just as good.
Like, dawg, no it aint
I wouldn't mind doing a self-hosted git repo and only using cli if I didn't have to also use email to do so.
Seriously the worst part. Email is a technology that should be left in the past. It's just awful. There's no good way to do email.
It has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal