alt Hacker NewsNo support for RTL or CJK text, IMEs, or accessibility tools leaves it pretty firmly in the "toy" category for me for now, sadly.
This isn't meant to bash on the project specifically, basically the only tools that meet that criteria are platform native UIs, the web stack (including Electron), Qt and Flutter.
AccessKit is promising to change that but I haven't checked in a while how it's going. I did see GTK looking into it as a cross platform option as GTK's accessibility support only works on the Linux desktop currently
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airstrike • 07/31/2025
In that case, I'm happy to let you know your info is outdated. CJK/IME support has landed.
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> No support for RTL or CJK text, IMEs, or accessibility tools leaves it pretty firmly in the "toy" category for me for now, sadly.
I18n, L10n and A11y tend to be very challenging features, making your wishlist a tall order. Solving that will require a larger developer mindshare. (I'm not sure how much of the existing frameworks can be reused here).
> basically the only tools that meet that criteria are platform native UIs ...
Here's the good news! Iced is already a platform native UI toolkit. It powers the Cosmic desktop and a few important applications are based on it. Iced is sure to receive a lot of attention once Cosmic stabilizes. Hopefully, you will get your wish sooner than later.