Let's try to make a non-GTK gui frontend

[adsick]

I think egui would be very good for an app like this, I mb even try to implement it myself in the future.

What do you think?

[skejeton]

I don't see the reason to, unless there's some explicit problem that makes GTK not work for this particular program

[qarmin]

More frontends will be great, but I remember that at beginning I wanted to use https://github.com/redox-os/orbtk, but I found that it missing some more advanced features and also I'm not a fan of creating GUI from code(in GTK I use Glade for now)/

[adsick]

Yesterday I tried czkawka for the first time on my high dpi windows tablet ond honestly I just did not liked how it was(

the first problem was extraction of the files from a .zip - it took a lot of time (I mean a lot more than I would expect) and my 2 core cpu was busy all the time.
Looks like that's because GTK-bundled version comes with lots of small files (which is not the case with egui as everything is inside the executable)

secondly I wouldn't say, that UX was awful, but for me it definately could be better: scaling on high-dpi screen with small scale in the system settings was not good - elements were very small and too close to each other.
directory selector window had its buttom buttons lower than the bottom of the screen so I firstly did not figured out where they are.
The overall feel is also a bit mixed due to "imperfect placing of elements" (I mean aligments and stuff)

yep, I am kinda pity on UI's, but I hope it can help to create better ones. Egui is a simple library and I actually like creating UI with code) btw, I'm not sure, but egui might miss the file selector menu right now, but I think I could make one myself too.

[adsick]

the look of file selector when I open it (notice, the buttons on the bottom are not visible/accessible)

[alexislefebvre]

Do you see all the buttons when you enlarge of maximize the Czkawka window?

[adsick]

Do you see all the buttons when you enlarge of maximize the Czkawka window?

they are visible, but they are too small.
also the file selector menu can not be maximized (as far as I remember)

[tbrtje]

I think a non-GTK gui would be very helpful, as GTK is somewhat broken on MacOS, meaning it won't display correctly on HI-DPI settings.

[andresiraola]

It would be better an Electron-based frontend with the current Rust backend.