About a porting to *Nix

Metric / Materia

An open source alternative to Substance Designer written in C#

MIT License

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About a porting to *Nix #7

Open kergalym opened 5 years ago

kergalym commented 5 years ago

Hi! I have interested in your application and I want to try it. But I'm Linux user only. Can I port your app to Linux with rewriting some WinAPI parts (and keeping your authorship, of course)?

Metric commented 5 years ago

It would be a little more complex than that, since you would have to completely redo the UI. As the UI uses WPF which is windows only. I have investigated other cross platform UI solutions for .net standard / .net core. But, they just aren't mature enough yet and do not offer all the capabilities that are needed.

JulianGro commented 4 years ago

GTKSharp might be an idea. https://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/gtksharp/ There is also Avalonia which is supposed to be similar to WPF, but of cource it doesn't seem very mature. https://avaloniaui.net

Metric commented 4 years ago

See Project: https://github.com/Metric/Materia/projects/2 and See current progress in branch: https://github.com/Metric/Materia/tree/NetCore

Also read the current readme state of the branch.