Guys, I have an idea for my Aster DE. What if, instead of showing the desktop area at the same size as the monitor's resolution, we doubled its width? Then, each time you want more windows on the screen, you can just slide the screen horizontally to fit more windows in. Every time you click on an app in the dock, the X position of the view changes. It will basically be the same as virtual desktops, but with one wide view. Dragging window shifted the view. I want to build it now!

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This is the System Settrings app in Aster. Now it’s very basic. But I want to recreate old macOS system settings.

Conceptually that items in a grid is not very different from any other file commander window grid. Where each settings item is similar to file managers files and folders in a grid. Top view to everything.

I hate modern macOS system settings with all the items to be in the sidebar. Imagine a file manager with all the folders navigation to the sidebar.

#FreeBSD #GUI

I did enjoy the ease of setup of TkInter, and compatibility with Matplotlib, but I was missing the simplicity of immediate mode libraries. In trying to emulate these, now a few callbacks trigger "given this dataclass with state, the widgets should look like this".
The micro-management gremlin is whining that it's repeating useless work, but more importantly the window is complete and I can go on with the experiment.

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Screenshot of a basic graphical application with settings, showing plots of generated signal to its side.