iNFekt 2.0 - Announcement

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The ultimate best NFO viewer, ever!

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iNFekt 2.0 - Announcement #151

Open flakes opened 11 months ago

flakes commented 11 months ago

Top of the morning to everyone reading this!

Today I'm happy to announce that development of iNFekt 2.0 has started. It will include the following highlights:

NFO Theme Selection (Yes, after 14 years)
Cross-Platform Support For Windows/Linux/Mac OS thanks to https://tauri.app/

What will happen to iNFekt 1.x? Probably not much any more, but let's see... no promises.

When? As usually, it depends on how much free time me and my friends have at hand.

flakes!

adamxtokyo commented 11 months ago

Amazing! Can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to macOS support 🎉

hopeseekr commented 7 months ago

I need Linux support quite badly. ANy way I can help?

Sonic3R commented 4 months ago

Hi, can tell how to make it portable for Windows and Linux ? I see some dependencies on Windows libraries.

PS: I love this app for nfo viewer, best far than other apps.

flakes commented 2 weeks ago

After some (succesful) attempts with Tauri (first screenshot), I decided to stop this and go with Slint instead.

While some of the features offered by Tauri, especially in terms of OS integration, are really useful, overall the experience of using a Browser-based renderer is too slow, and the insane amount of JavaScript dependencies does not really go together with the philosophy of this project - which is to be a super fast, low on resources, beautiful, old school but modern NFO viewer.

Hence I started a main-v3.0 branch now, with Slint as a UI. Already feels much lighter and faster. We will iterate on this now... stay tuned!

iNFekt v2.0 based on Tauri

iNFekt v3.0 based on Slint - WIP

Simulping commented 2 weeks ago

just curious, why not flutter? that way, one could extend development to mobile. or is it too heavy?