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Independent projects
From the Workbench
Independent projects, experiments, and assorted bits of software from behind the scenes at Bealdor.
These are Luke's personal and open-source projects, not Bealdor products. For those, see Products.
Fig. 1. Ember's album grid, themed from the wallpaper. From the repository.
No. 1 · Music player
Ember
Written in C, using GTK3, libmpdclient and MPD.
A classic-style music player for MPD. It follows the old iPad Music app before it became Apple Music: an album grid, tabs for playlists, songs, artists and genres, album and artist pages, and an iTunes-style mini player.
It is a small, traditional desktop application. MPD plays the music and keeps the library; Ember is the GTK3 frontend, so it stays light on old machines. It needs only GTK3 and libmpdclient, and runs MPD as your user.
$ shore add notion notion.so
$ shore notion
$ shore list
$ shore remove notion
$ shore https://example.com
# a throwaway window that keeps nothing
Fig. 2. Shore has no screenshots yet, so here are the commands from its README.
No. 2 · Web apps on the desktop
Shore
Written in C, using GTK and WebKitGTK.
A lightweight Linux utility that runs websites as standalone desktop applications. shore add notion notion.so gives a site its own window, launcher entry, icon and login, kept apart from your browser and from every other web app.
It uses the system's WebKitGTK with a small C program around it. One 60 KB binary runs every app, with no build step per site, so Debian's security updates to WebKitGTK reach every app at once.
