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buster / rrun

minimalistic command launcher in rust

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Create a nicer UI #12

Open nightscape opened 8 years ago

nightscape commented 8 years ago

The current UI is usable, but not really eye-candy ;) Moreover, having only one line for the user-specified query and the results makes selection of completions slower than necessary. I would propose to create a UI similar to Albert and Alfred. I'm not an expert in UI toolkits, but would see the following features as desirable:

portability and easy cross-compilation (Linux, Mac, Windows?)
stylability (e.g. CSS or similar)
easy key listening in text box
key listening for global shortcuts
low resource consumption
high startup speed

Besides the current GTK UI, QT or Conrod might be good options. Possibly also other candidates from the awesome rust listing.

@buster Do you see any other desirables or options?

nightscape commented 8 years ago

Also some useful information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2zqjix/what_would_you_use_for_a_rust_gui/

buster commented 8 years ago

From my point of view:

rrun UI should be as small and as fast as possible. Wich also means: no animations or transitions popping up.

Apart from that, i'm open for everything. I feel like GTK is the way to go, for now. Except you would like to design an entirely new and fancy UI in Conrod.. Take a look at the GTK widget gallery: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/ch03.html For me, they all look nice enough and the best thing is that they are using the theme i set up for all other applications. Also, GTK themeing nowadays is done with CSS, i think. So that's a plus in your list as well.

I suppose one could add a ListBox to the window when completing?

buster commented 8 years ago

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14410821/how-to-style-gtk-with-custom-css

It looks like you can style your GTK widgets with custom CSS...

nightscape commented 8 years ago

WIP for completion list: https://github.com/buster/rrun/tree/completion_list It looks like one just has to fill the corresponding ListStore correctly which I didn't get to (and probably won't in the next few days :disappointed:)... If you have time to play with it, have fun :sparkles: :+1:

nightscape commented 8 years ago

I saw your fix and I'm happy with it, as it allows for instant evaluation in cases where the completion executes without errors. A minor issue is that deleting characters does not invoke completion anymore, but I don't think this is a show-stopper for merging this.

nightscape commented 8 years ago

With your consent, I'll create a new release (maybe 0.2.0?) on Github and try to find some people that could create 2 or 3 nice themes for rrun.

buster commented 8 years ago

Sure, actually I already started doing that on my laptop but didn't finish to build a 0.2.0..

buster commented 8 years ago

I just uploaded a fresh .deb package. And also uploaded a new version to crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/rrun