How about crowdfunding for scenic-based libraries/projects?

[Eiji]

@stefanchrobot

If I understand correctly, you want to build desktop apps, right? That’s what I’m getting from showing a tray icon, etc.

exactly

@stefanchrobot

If that’s the case, I think Scenic is not the right tool for that.

Honestly OpenGL on which scenic (to be more precise scenic_driver_glfw) is based is enough. Look that awesome KDE/Plasma compositor is also written allows to use OpenGL engine in versions 2.0 and 3.1. The biggest problem is that I don’t have enough experience in OpenGL programming.

@stefanchrobot

I’d suggest going with platform specific components/widgets.

Nope, I have a much different plan (more would be available in details).

@stefanchrobot

I know that cross-platform UIs sound very nice, but in reality native widgets come on top when you really want platform-like feel (same story as on mobile)

Look every OS/distribution/desktop environment have its own theme files. There is only a matter of proper research, builds structs based on it and finally write a code that handles them.

@stefanchrobot

While wxErlang might be useful in some cases, you’ll hit a wall the second you’ll try to play a sound.

While sounds are interesting for native apps I don’t see them around scenic topic. It’s mostly about drawing components with their themes properly.

@stefanchrobot

I’m working on an Elixir library for building component-based desktop apps, but that’s still in the making and not a priority till at least March.

I would suggest to hold on in case people would find my idea interesting. As you can see job offers have their own level, so I would have some work as well for newbie as well for more experienced developers which are familiar with NIFs. I have a plan to support all OS/distribution/desktop environment themes, so components could look like native.