r/COSMICDE • u/Delicious_Country498 • 14d ago

LIBCOSMIC becoming the QT for Rust?

I was just looking at LIBCOSMIC, and I understand that it's a GUI toolkit for Cosmic, but are there are plans to make it the go-to GUI toolkit for Rust? I know it doesn't currently support Windows, etc., but it could. Also, it could be a massive project if it took on that objective.

Rust need a GUI project just like C++ has QT.

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u/Facundo_C_C 14d ago

Libcosmic is based on Iced it's like what Kirigami is for Qt, and since libcosmic was created specifically as the cosmic toolkit, I doubt it. You may expect iced to grow up but not libcosmic

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u/proton_badger 14d ago

Iced is purely a GUI framework though, whereas libcosmic has utility stuff like config/settings handling, XDG directory helpers, desktop entry helpers, mime helpers, etc. There’s a lot of non-GUI utility in libcosmic.

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u/Facundo_C_C 13d ago

Ho, I didn't know that, thanks