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I made an ugly wireguard client GUI in slint for NixOS (radicle.network)

submitted 1 day ago by vald@mbin.linuxnation.social to c/show_and_tell@programming.dev

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It's not exclusive to NixOS, but I've only packaged it for NixOS.

The UI looks like shit, but it allows showing all the configs in /etc/wireguard and toggling them on or off with wg-quick.

The biggest issue I had was with slint. I can't make sense of it (yet).

This was written because after getting a windscribe subscription, I found out that the app doesn't work on #NixOS and the pull request to add it 1) doesn't work, 2) is being nitpicked to death.

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No suggestions, just curious about your rationale. I've used dioxus and egui a bit. Both have some fairly rough edges.

[–] vald@mbin.linuxnation.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I might have to rethink my stance on no browsers, because Dioxus looks very easy compared to slint. And it supports mobile, which might come in handy for other projects have I have in mind.

You do say dioxus has fairly rough edges. Could you elaborate further? I was considering trying it out.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Are you familiar with react? Its basically react, but rust.

The rsx! macro is very clever, but it doesn't format with cargo fmt, you have to use dx fmt separately. Your mileage may vary as to whether your LSP or IDE understands it.

Hot reload was a bit more like a plain reload. Still incredibly useful, but most of the time it did a rebuild and restart.

I was trying to make a button that repeatedly fired as long as the mouse was held down, but for some reason the mouse up event would get lost, and then the button was stuck on.

The "native" desktop is basically a custom browser with the JS engine replaced with rust. Its not as heavy as a full browser, but its not light either. Haven't tried the mobile versions, I suspect they are similar.

If you know react, its not a bad way to transfer those skills. Worth a try IMO, I am still using it for my project, although I may rewrite and switch to egui if I can't solve my repeating button issue.