<Excited to announce> the first official release o...

# compose-desktop

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Excited to announce the first official release of Aurora, a library for building modern, elegant and fast Compose Desktop applications. Find all the documentation on the landing page of the project.

[Sergey Y.]

@Kirill Grouchnikov Looks like https://github.com/kirill-grouchnikov/aurora#components has broken links.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Oh thanks, fixed now

[spierce7]

Congrats! I’ve seen you put a lot of work into this over the last year!

So that I can properly evaluate this for my team, what are the advantages of using this over the default Compose UI toolkit?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I would say a more flexible design system that gives more knobs to configure the visual appearance of individual components, a bit more depth in the theming engine, and maybe a bit more power in the components themselves, especially command buttons and pop-up menus. Also upcoming in 2022, the breadcrumb bar and the command bar / ribbon.