META: cool projcts, repos to watch

[diegoiast]

Here is a non issue - just to track cool projects which we can incorporate into the IDE.

Widgets

• Flat tab widget: https://github.com/timschneeb/FlatTabWidget
• Animated slider: https://github.com/timschneeb/QAnimatedSlider
• https://github.com/progzdeveloper/QtExtra
  • Docking system?
  • About dialog
  • QLongSpinbox
  • QtSlideButton
• Breadcrumb: https://github.com/Qt-Widgets/wwwidgets-breadcrumb-color-combobox-led-spinbox-navigator-ip-etc
• Progress indicator: https://github.com/epasveer/QProgressIndicator
• Spell checking: https://wiki.qt.io/Spell-Checking-with-Hunspell, https://github.com/martonmiklos/SpellChecker
• Bubbles-chat: https://github.com/XMuli/BubbleChat
• VIM text editor: https://github.com/ahrm/VimLineEdit
• Frameless windows - seems like Qt-Frameless-Window-DarkStyle is the one to copy.
  • https://github.com/gmarull/qtmodern
  • https://github.com/Jorgen-VikingGod/Qt-Frameless-Window-DarkStyle
  • https://github.com/antonypro/QGoodWindow

Themes

• QtAwesome icon set: https://github.com/gamecreature/QtAwesome
• Fluent design (new widgets, probably not important): https://github.com/githubuser0xFFFF/QtFluentDesign
• Moden design (cool theme): https://github.com/Qt-Widgets/Lightly_modern_style_theme
• Adwita (cool theme): https://github.com/Qt-Widgets/adwaita-qt-style-qstyle
• Windows11 style - https://store.kde.org/p/1991121
• Transparent window: https://github.com/SunnyCapturer/AcrylicWindow
• Widgets on window frames: https://github.com/antonypro/QGoodWindow
• Window titles - https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit

Misc

• How to tell which theme is OS is running, light? dark? https://github.com/Qt-Widgets/ThemeSupport-determine-OS-currently-active-theme
• Global hotkeys https://github.com/Skycoder42/QHotkey/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/benlau/qsyncable - seems like something that an diff the model, and display only the modifications, instead of rebuilding the whole model.

Spell checkers

• Spell checking for the text editor component: https://github.com/progzdeveloper/Qt5Extra/tree/main/qtspellchecking
• Qt5Extras - spell checker: https://github.com/progzdeveloper/Qt5Extra/tree/main/qtspellchecking
• spell check: https://store.kde.org/p/1132157

Projects to look for inspiration

• QNOto (text editor with cool UI/UX) : https://github.com/zjes/qnoto
• https://github.com/zrax/qtextpad/tree/master/src - seems to have a good highlighting system
• https://github.com/Wing-summer/WingCodeEdit - seems to have a good highlighting system