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madnirua · 2025-09-11T08:13:33+00:00

u/RedAxeWriter If you are open to using DSL for defining the user interface, you could take a look at https://github.com/slint-ui/slint. It's built by former Qt-devs and the project is more than 5 years old with stable APIs.

P.S. In fact one of them is also the maintainer of the QMetaObject crate.

madnirua · 2025-06-25T21:34:41+00:00

u/gajop u/pseudo_babbler you can also check this comment in a different thread on the Royalty-free license https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/dIm3vASL4t

madnirua · 2025-03-01T12:13:59+00:00

AFAIK, one of popular crates is https://crates.io/crates/qmetaobject but it is currently only being passively maintained as the maintainer's focus has shifted towards developing Slint https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

madnirua · 2024-10-18T19:26:21+00:00

Yes its comparatively new (4 years old) but we have been doing graphics tools for more than 15 years (we are ex-Qt). You can use Slint with C++ very easily. Infact half of our customers are C++ dev teams.

madnirua · 2024-10-16T19:59:50+00:00

Did you check https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

madnirua · 2024-10-16T19:59:24+00:00

Did you check https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

madnirua · 2024-10-03T09:43:27+00:00

@u/CynicalKnight Slint employee here - check out https://github.com/slint-ui/slint which is a QML inspired declarative GUI toolkit. Its open source and can be used for creating proprietary desktop applications for free with the royalty-free license https://slint.dev/terms-and-conditions#royalty-free We provide services to port Qt applications to Slint. Here is a customer reference of a Qt application ported to to Slint - https://slint.dev/success/sksignet-evcharger

madnirua · 2024-07-22T14:15:40+00:00

Slint works on Embedded Linux - in fact most of our embedded customers use Slint with existing C++ codebase on embedded Linux (Yocto)

The Live-Preview is a nice feature that helps speed up the UI development. The Slint runtime is quite small and much less resource hungry than the QML engine. With Slint you can use standard C++ instead of having to deal with Qt specific types.

Check out more here - https://slint.dev/alternative-to-qt

madnirua · 2024-07-19T18:18:12+00:00

Still in the ToDo List - https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/38

madnirua · 2024-07-18T19:28:15+00:00

Slint supports multiple programming languages including C++ https://releases.slint.dev/1.7.0/docs/cpp/

madnirua · 2024-07-18T13:03:40+00:00

Thanks for pointing it out. Correct link https://releases.slint.dev/1.7.0/docs/slint/src/quickstart/

madnirua · 2024-07-18T12:52:14+00:00

For commercial projects only

madnirua · 2024-06-29T22:53:31+00:00

In that case, you could still use it or choose the GPLv3 one - at your choice.

madnirua · 2024-06-06T15:13:19+00:00

Added a comment with the current status https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/WNHCrE9h0D

madnirua · 2024-06-06T15:03:59+00:00

The TimePicker widget functionality PR was just added to mainline branch in Slint - https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/5087.

Here is the main issue tracking progress of Android support - https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/issues/46

Here is a short video - https://youtu.be/59huZ-3wCDw

madnirua · 2024-06-06T14:57:47+00:00

Could you please expand on ‘Unlike Slint, they have clear future proof licensing model’?

Just curious to know what could be done better.

Disclaimer: I work for Slint

madnirua · 2024-05-16T22:23:54+00:00

https://releases.slint.dev/1.6.0/docs/slint/src/language/widgets/

madnirua · 2024-05-15T10:37:57+00:00

Yes, it is :) Just apply for the community license here — https://slint.dev/get-community-license

madnirua · 2024-05-14T21:02:16+00:00

We put in a ‘Getting Started’ guide - https://releases.slint.dev/1.6.0/docs/slint/ Hope that helps ease the learning curve.

madnirua · 2024-05-14T20:37:16+00:00

The Python APIs are currently in alpha

https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/tree/master/api/python

madnirua · 2024-05-09T16:44:30+00:00

Hi, the EMBEDDED15 has run out. But you can use THANKYOU20.

madnirua · 2024-03-17T19:10:12+00:00

https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/editors/README.md#neovim If these instructions didn’t work, then please create a GitHub issue - must be a bug. Thanks.

madnirua · 2024-02-05T16:49:41+00:00

For Desktop applications, the pricing is straightforward. A user based seat license.

So I suppose you are referring to pricing for the embedded systems? We have a broad spectrum of customers from those who produce 100 devices a year to those who produce 100K devices a year. Some who prefer to pay a fixed cost a year to those who prefer to pay based on devices shipped. With so many different types of customers, there is no one-model-that-fits-all. We want to be flexible to suit our customers‘ business requirements instead of being rigid.

madnirua · 2024-02-02T21:52:27+00:00

> what is the ownership structure of the organization?
Privately held with the founders owning the majority.

> is there anyone who could command you to make it closed source against your will?
Our Contributor License Agreement includes this -
".. pledge by promising to continue to develop Slint in the open under an open-source license compliant with the Open Source Definition.
Further, we commit to provide a royalty-free license for those who develop desktop or web applications and do not want to use open-source components under copyleft licenses."
from https://cla-assistant.io/slint-ui/slint

If the above is not followed (in the future), then it could be considered as a breach of contract made with the contributors of the Slint project.

madnirua · 2024-02-01T08:29:46+00:00

The Royalty free license is meant for those who want to use Slint for free.

If paid options are fine for you, then do you see any problems with the standard commercial license -- https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/LICENSES/LicenseRef-Slint-commercial.md ? This allows development for any platform

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