Standard GUI framework inspired by Qt

[Piotrek via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 10 March 2015 at 01:25:05 UTC, karl wrote:
> Please don't use SDL2 and such as basis, or OpenGL with 
> glBegin+glReadPixels without FBOs and PBOs (not Pbuffers). I'm 
> a GL driver dev (userspace) for a smaller company, and I see 
> too much gore in popular software like that (gnome3 is the 
> most-horrific). A fully-featured GUI with GL needs only a thin 
> wrapper for glXGetProcAddress, GL context creation, BitBlt-like 
> things and font-glyph cache (or better yet, 
> signed-distance-field text rendering). Something like this:
>
> Base (sans clipping, I haven't ported it from asm yet):
> https://github.com/idinev/pub_toys/tree/master/Blitters/oDraw
>
> SDF text:
> https://www.mapbox.com/blog/text-signed-distance-fields/
>
> Also, GL should be optional, just like with Qt; it introduces 
> noticeable lag of 16 to 48ms while being a resource hog 
> unnecessary for most apps. I could help with implementing the 
> abstraction layer and create a software blitter (I was 
> professionally doing such stuff before, for GUI toolkits and 
> stuff; but then again this stuff is trivial).
>
> A 32-bit backing-store is always vital (DDB+GDI dibsection, GL 
> texture and such). Qt has it (and implemented really-well) and 
> that's the first pixel-related thing we should implement. BGRA8 
> will be the best format (blue in LSB).
> A 9-cell blit will also be vital functionality.

@karl

Can you check the proposal of the new color module by Manu?
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2845

Do you see any issues there?

Piotrek