fastframe egui on rails

The small crates behind ZapFast, Spotifast, Solco, TonePush and Chat with Work. Everything a native egui app needs besides its own interface, extracted from apps that already ship it.

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What is fastframe?

GitHub

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Text that looks native

Follows the desktop’s hinting and antialiasing, bundles Inter with tabular figures, and finds installed fonts for every script Inter lacks.

fastframe-text

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Themes people can edit

JSON palettes loaded off the interface thread, eight shared palettes, and live Omarchy theme following with a reveal from the middle of the window.

fastframe-theme

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Runs without a window

A tray item on every platform, a headless loop around eframe that brings the window back on demand, and windows rescued from off-screen.

fastframe-shell

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Updates that roll back

Self-update from GitHub releases with signed checksums, package-manager detection, and a helper that restores the previous version if the new one does not start.

fastframe-update

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Translations built in

gettext catalogs compiled into the binary at build time. No libintl, no PO parsing at run time, English as the fallback.

fastframe-i18n

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Private by default

Logs made for bug reports, with private targets rewritten and panic payloads never written. No telemetry, no hosted services, nothing that phones home.

fastframe-log

The crates

Take only the crates your app uses. Each one does one job and does it with no configuration.

Crate	What it does
`fastframe-text`	Follows the desktop's font rendering settings (hinting, antialiasing, sub-pixel positioning, text weight) in egui, and snaps hand-placed text to whole pixels.
`fastframe-fonts`	Bundled Inter (tabular figures) at the app's weights, and installed fonts for every script Inter lacks, aligned to its baseline.
`fastframe-icons`	Embedded SVG icon sets for egui: the icons! macro, a bytes loader that survives reduce_texture_memory, and the Lucide icons the apps share.
`fastframe-theme`	JSON colour palettes, a catalogue loaded off the interface thread, the eight shared palettes, following the Omarchy desktop's theme with filesystem notifications, and revealing a change of colours from the middle of the window outwards.
`fastframe-i18n`	Bundled gettext catalogs: a build-time PO compiler for build.rs, gettext/pgettext/ngettext lookups, system language detection, and the template update script.
`fastframe-log`	Logs to stderr and a per-run file for bug reports, rewrites private targets, and records panics without their payload.
`fastframe-tray`	A tray item with the app's own menu: StatusNotifier on Linux, the notification area on Windows, the menu bar on macOS.
`fastframe-macos`	Puts the macOS traffic lights on the centre line of an app's own title bar, and reads the system's title-bar double-click setting.
`fastframe-shell`	Keeps an app running without a window around eframe::run_native, starts hidden, and brings back windows restored off-screen.
`fastframe-update`	Self-update from GitHub releases: detects package-managed installs, verifies signed checksums, installs through a helper with rollback, keeps the handoff format older app versions use, moves renamed installations onto the new name with their launchers, and offers an opt-in pre-release channel.