stride_ui_discussion.md

Graphics Library

• Skia/Cairo
  • Extremely barebone, might as well fix stride's ui system ?

Retained

• Eto, Windows Forms-like, c#
  • BSD-3
  • Fairly limited styling
• Avalonia, WPF-like, c#|xml
  • MIT
  • Performance issues
  • Missing features ?
  • A pain to setup
  • Styling
  • Editor
• Myra, c#|xml
  • MIT
  • Built-in stride support
  • Styling
  • Editor
• Stride's UI, c#|editor
  • MIT
  • Performance issues
  • Missing features
  • Already works with stride
  • Editor
• MyGUI c#|xml
  • MIT
  • Not sure how nice it is with c#
  • Styling
• TGUI, c#
  • zlib/libpng
  • .Net bindings aren't up to date
  • Styling
  • Editor, somehwere ?
• MAUI, c#|xml
  • MIT
  • Not released yet
  • Linux support is not guaranteed (!)
• Qt, c# & qml?
  • License
  • There's Qml.Net but not exactly sure what that is exactly compared to Qt

Web or web-like frameworks

In general not very efficient to draw & more work for us/users to bind the c# side to it

• Ultralight, c# & html+css
  • Licensing too restrictive
• RmlUi, html+css
  • MIT
  • No c# bindings, more work for us
• MiniRazor, c# & html+css
  • MIT
  • See general issue with Web-like frameworks

Immediate

• ImGui, c#
  • MIT
  • Immediate mode - easy and fast to build tools
  • Styling, fairly limited as you can tell
  • Already supports stride (profan / jazzay / and a tool)

There are probably some minimum requirements for a a Stride UI replacement. The things I can think off:

• Renderer agnostic
• Cross-platform
• Free & Open Source
• .Net/.Net Bindings

Features missing from Stride UI. (Alternatives would also need to support these.):

• Input focus/"tab navigation"
• Clipboard/drag & drop
• Windowing/docking.