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matze / iridium

Standard Notes client written in Rust and GTK
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Use async reqwest to avoid blocking the UI #2

Open matze opened 4 years ago

matze commented 4 years ago

Should be possible to integrate with the GLib mainloop running the UI.

thomaseizinger commented 4 years ago

Do you have on concrete ideas on how you would want this to work? :)

I've never worked with GLib but my first impression was that we should probably move all the storage handling to a different thread if we want to stay away from Arc<Mutex> and keep the &mut to Storage. Once it is on a different thread, we could potentially get away with just doing things synchronously and working off a job queue that is coming from a channel that the main thread feeds into.

matze commented 4 years ago

Do you have on concrete ideas on how you would want this to work?

Nope, I've only had a cursory look how GLib integrates with Rust's async (i.e. this release note (see Futures) and this example) but have not further looked into it in particular.

I see where you are coming from but after last night's move of current state handling to the Storage I don't know if a thread/command queue based model would work that well now. But I am open for suggestions.

matze commented 4 years ago

Oops … wrong ticket.