Season of KDE Proposal: Rust wrapper for KConfig

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 8:27 PM Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am a University student and the author of the rust crate ki18n. This crate allows using the KI18n Framework from Rust and can be used in conjunction with the qmetaobject crate to allow writing QML applications for KDE using Rust.
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> The Proposal for my project is to create a rust wrapper for the KConfig KDE Framework. With this crate present, it will be possible to create a QML/Kirigami + Rust application without C++. I already have some other Rust crates ready to help make the wrapper.
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> Currently, the primary GUI solution for creating Rust applications is GTK-rs. If Rust wrappers of at least the essential parts of KDE are present, it can become a viable toolkit for GUI development in Rust. If this project is done as part of the Season of KDE, it might also help to inform people about crates like qmetaobject, which works almost flawlessly to create QML + Rust applications.
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> I am looking for someone to mentor my project. The mentor does not need to have Rust skills but should be familiar with KConfig. I haven't used KConfig much and might miss important parts of the Framework. I would also like to make the Bindings ergonomic and would need someone who has a better understanding of the Framework.
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> My goal with this project is to increase the use of Rust in KDE as a whole. But for that to happen, we first need a base to allow people to start seeing KDE Frameworks as viable for Rust-based GUI.
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> Here is my alternate email to contact me directly: ayushsingh1325 at gmail.com
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> Thank You

Rust sure looks interesting but I wonder whether having bindings for a
framework will make applications suddenly pop.

Is there any KDE project that would be furthered by having (and
maintaining) these bindings?

Aleix