GPUI wish list

[krstp]

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A few wishes:

• I am trying to get a grip around GPUI. Venturing into examples/ folder (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui/examples) I tried to check some of the samples. As such animation.py does not seem to cause any animation, just a black hello on green square. What I am reporting here is I suppose a bug of examples code.

• Additionally trying different examples, this is the message I get:

2024-10-19 19:17:04.236 gpui[35381:2487415] +[IMKClient subclass]: chose IMKClient_Legacy
2024-10-19 19:17:04.236 gpui[35381:2487415] +[IMKInputSession subclass]: chose IMKInputSession_Legacy
2024-10-19 19:17:04.245 gpui[35381:2487415] NSKeyBindingManager: Bad key binding selector for '^@' = 'noop'

• Would be great if gpui (https://www.gpui.rs/#examples) deserved its own repository. It has its own website, but the only code seems to live as Zed's crate 🤔

• gif viewer also seems to be missing some creates out of the box and not stated dependency, i.e.

28 |     env_logger::init();
   |     ^^^^^^^^^^ use of undeclared crate or module `env_logger`

• Overall my wish if if GPUI could be more self contained with workable sample code. Would be great to pick up on it

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MacOS

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[xb284524239]

Agreed!
For a long time, the Rust community has lacked a powerful native GUI framework. I hope that GPUI can become the most powerful and general-purpose native GUI framework in Rust, just like Qt in C++.

[mrnugget]

• Additionally trying different examples, this is the message I get:

Seems to be a macOS problem: rust-windowing/winit#3931

[mrnugget]

• As such animation.py does not seem to cause any animation, just a black hello on green square. What I am reporting here is I suppose a bug of examples code.

Works here:

$ cd crates/gpui
$ cargo run --example animation

[krstp]

Did you run it out of the box on fresh env or being the zed developer, which I think you are, did you run it in your pre-existing development env? What I meant, it does not work on fresh install, imho some extra crates need to be added. When I find a minute I will try to look more into it.