--- title: Making Slint Desktop-Ready | daily.dev description: Slint, a cross-platform UI framework popular for embedded systems, is announcing a focused push to make it production-ready for desktop application... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-slint-desktop-ready-uwy4rfvnj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making Slint Desktop-Ready | daily.dev og:description: Slint, a cross-platform UI framework popular for embedded systems, is announcing a focused push to make it production-ready for desktop application... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-slint-desktop-ready-uwy4rfvnj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Uwy4RfVNj.png og:image:alt: Making Slint Desktop-Ready og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making Slint Desktop-Ready **[Slint](https://daily.dev/sources/slint)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Slint, a cross-platform UI framework popular for embedded systems, is announcing a focused push to make it production-ready for desktop application development. The team is collaborating with the LibrePCB project on their Qt-to-Slint migration for version 2.0. Upcoming features include: rich text support with markdown in Text elements, declarative keyboard shortcuts with platform-aware mapping (e.g., Ctrl→Cmd on macOS), global drag-and-drop via DragArea/DropArea APIs, modal windows/dialogs, improved popup windows as real OS windows, tooltips, system tray support, and two-way data bindings for model items and struct members. The post also clarifies Slint's three licensing tiers: GPLv3 (open source), Royalty-Free (free for desktop/mobile/web with attribution), and a Paid License for embedded and premium support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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