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| title = "This Month in Xilem, August 2024" | ||
| authors = ["Daniel McNab"] | ||
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| Linebender is an informal open-source organization working on various projects to advance the state of the art in GUI for [the Rust programming language](https://rust-lang.org). | ||
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| <img style="height: auto; margin: 0 auto" src="../../linebender.svg" alt="Linebender logo; smoothly stroked overlapping lowercase letters, an l and a b." height="200" width = "200"> | ||
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| Linebender has a new logo, which was contributed by [Markus Siglreithmaier](https://github.com/msiglreith). | ||
| We're seeking feedback on Zulip in [#linebender>logo](https://xi.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/419691-linebender/topic/logo). | ||
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| ## Xilem | ||
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| Xilem is our flagship GUI project, inspired by SwiftUI. | ||
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| <!-- TODO: Slightly better writing here --> | ||
| - Viewmarker [xilem#472][] | ||
| - Variable fonts experiments ([xilem#507][]) | ||
| - Stopwatch example [xilem#] | ||
| - Views for existing and new widgets: spinner ([xilem#497][]), portal ([xilem#561][]), progress bar ([xilem#513][]) | ||
| - Xilem Web: | ||
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| - One or two most impactful items. | ||
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| ## Masonry | ||
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| Masonry is the widget system used by Xilem. | ||
| This month has been dominated by Olivier's implementation of pass specification ([rfcs#7][]): | ||
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| <!-- TODO: Rest of the pass specification PRs --> | ||
| - [xilem#522][]: Paint/Accessibility, with follow-up by Tom Churchman in [xilem#557][] | ||
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| Other work from August includes: | ||
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| - Tom Churchman has contributed fixes for Portal scrolling ([#xilem#563][]) | ||
| - Snapshot tests now are cross-platform and run in CI ([xilem#233][]) | ||
| - Progress Bar widget ([xilem#513][]) | ||
| - Pan/flick gestures ([xilem#562][]). | ||
| - Progress continues on text input for Android <!-- TODO: links? - cc @xorgy --> | ||
| - We were given a demonstration of initial [Android TalkBack](https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6283677) support in office hours. | ||
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| ## Vello | ||
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| Vello is our GPU vector renderer. | ||
| We have made some really great progress in August<!-- , TODO: and are actively planning a 0.3.0 release -->. | ||
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| - Blurred rounded rectangles, by Markus Siglreithmaier ([vello#665][]) | ||
| - Blend stack spilling, allowing blends more than four layers deep ([vello#661][]). | ||
| - Fixes for some visual artifacts in [vello#651][], [vello#659] and [vello#673][]. | ||
| - Embedding existing wgpu textures ([vello#636][]). | ||
| - Bitmap glyph (emoji) support in ([vello#641][]). | ||
| - Work has begun on sparse strips, which is tracked in [vello#670][]. | ||
| - Frame pacing for Android is being investigated and developed in [vello#674][]. | ||
| - <!-- TODO: Thomas Smith incredible deep-dives into parallel scan, which is the core operation in Vello. --> | ||
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| Rounded rectangles! | ||
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| ## Parley | ||
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| Parley is a text layout library. | ||
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| - Primitives required for robust text editing added in [parley#106][]. | ||
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| ## Others | ||
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| - Bruce Mitchener has started work on Interpoli, a... <!-- TODO: Finish --> | ||
| - We have performed a [retrospective](@/blog/2024-08-24-roadmap-may-2024-retro.md) on our last roadmap. | ||
| - Daniel and Olivier's "office hours" appointments can still be booked by anyone for open-ended time-limited discussion of the ecosystem. | ||
| - [See Daniel's schedule here](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ32eQYJ9DtZ_wJaYNtT36YioETiloZDIdImFpBFRo5-XsqGzpikgkg47LPsiHhpiwiQ1orOwwW2). | ||
| - [See Olivier's schedule here](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ2t767ZRETD_TkRI_VxK2ZTG0VrO9OZ4l7HvTxefhtJcg85iK0ZN7zWNnAEZtH0Dn7C1GKxrmYM). | ||
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| <!-- --> | ||
| <!-- TODO: Add remaining links --> | ||
| [xilem#396]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem/pull/396 | ||
| [rfcs#7]: https://github.com/linebender/rfcs/pull/7 |
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