Work-in-progress native bluesky client, designed to adhere to Microsoft's Metro design language as close as is possible or reasonable.
The name is a mix of Bluesky and metro -> train -> subway. It's also the (code)name of a map in the Titanfall 2 campaign.
I write things, especially with immediate mode frameworks, as a "get it working and fix it up later" kind of deal. A lot of this codebase has yet to receive the latter (and might not ever, due to the growing size of it.)
Most notably the parts that need work are:
- Backend to frontend communitcation. A lot of view-specific tasks are sent to the frontend as a whole, this sucks but works for the time being
- This paradigm is being phased out in favor of sending an
Arc<Mutex<>>to the backend, which then works on theArc's contents, but as for view-dependent things I'm still looking for a good way to handle that.
- This paradigm is being phased out in favor of sending an
- Repetition. I've got some good things working like UI viewers for posts and the like, but things like embeds, display names, images, etc are very repeated
- I'm thinking of implementing a global cache for objects like posts, that way likes/reposts update across the entire app, instead of one part (like a thread) having a more up-to-date copy of a post than others (like the timeline)
Use rust nightly.
This project relies on six Microsoft fonts.
Microsoft's licensing doesn't allow distribution of them, so I won't put them in the source tree.
You will need to provide the Microsoft fonts from your own Windows 8 or newer install, and copy them into the root directory (next to src):
- Segoe UI
C:/Windows/Fonts/segoeui.ttf - Segoe UI Light:
C:/Windows/Fonts/segoeuil.ttf - Segoe Symbols:
C:/Windows/Fonts/seguisym.ttf - Segoe Emojis:
C:/Windows/Fonts/seguiemj.ttf - Segoe Boot:
C:/Windows/Boot/Fonts/segoe_slboot.ttf - Malgun Gothic:
C:/Windows/Fonts/malgun.ttf(You should be able to substitute this for a font of your choice with asian glyphs, but malgun works better)