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License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Shell 1.29% Python 0.77% Meson 4.76% Rust 92.58% CSS 0.59%

helvum's Introduction

Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.

Features planned

Volume control
"Debug mode" that lets you view advanced information for nodes and ports

More suggestions are welcome!

Building

Via flatpak (recommended)

The recommended way to build is using flatpak, which will take care of all dependencies and avoid any problems that may come from different system configurations.

If you don't have the flathub repo in your remote-list for flatpak you will need to add that first:

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Then install the required flatpak platform and SDK, if you dont have them already:

$ flatpak install org.gnome.{Platform,Sdk}//41 org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable//21.08 org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.llvm12//21.08

To compile and install as a flatpak, clone the project, change to the project directory, and run:

$ flatpak-builder --install flatpak-build/ build-aux/org.freedesktop.ryuukyu.Helvum.json

You can then run the app via

$ flatpak run org.freedesktop.ryuukyu.Helvum

Manually

For compilation, you will need:

Meson
An up-to-date rust toolchain
libclang-3.7 or higher
gtk-4.0 and pipewire-0.3 development headers

To compile and install, run

$ meson setup build && cd build
$ meson compile
$ meson install

in the repository root. This will install the compiled project files into /usr/local.

License

Helvum is distributed under the terms of the GPL3 license. See LICENSE for more information.

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helvum's Issues

Have a connection turn a different colour if there is volume or data transerring currently

Would be useful when you have a lot of stuff and want to quickly find what you're hearing now, especially with a bunch of tabs

Ability to group connections / nodes

Hold down left and drag a square over a bunch of connection so you can edit them all at once

Ability to change color theming and fonts

Especially around specifics, I want to change my inputs and outputs to be slightly different shades of blue so I can distinguish them for example

Ability to hide / exclusively show nodes

Let's say I want to hide a node, I right click and hide it and all of its connectors. Let's say however I want to exclusively show some nodes. I drag right click on them and click exclusively show and just see those nodes and their connectors. Exclusively show should respect the hidden property and not show those still however. To see hidden nodes you could right click the background and click show hidden nodes and then re-click the background and click hide hidden nodes to get rid of them

Have depth based control for visuals (e.g. layering)

The user should be able to choose manually (and set up automatically) what wire / i/o is in "front" of the other like how in Powerpoint if you had two images you'd have to pick which takes the priority layer as seen here https://youtu.be/XA8FF89OfJU?t=15

Persist state

Persist state between restarts, as well of nodes reappearing.

Allow to edit volume of each connection by right click

Make save-able presets / Saved "scenes"

They should be named, have category tags (that the user can add and make (e.g. "Livestreaming", "Music", "Jitsi Chat"), able to be coloured by custom hex values, accesible in app and not relying on us to go into the file explorer, etc..

Double click an input / output to remove all connections currently attached to it

Add light theme support

Issue

I often work in bright environments and would appreciate if Helvum would follow the system setting for light and dark theme.

The dark theme is not easy to read in bright environments.

I sometimes add a Flatpak environment variable GTK_THEME=Adwaita:light but unfortunately the grid in light mode makes the app's visual appearance uncomfortable for the eyes in light mode.

Expected behavior

The app's visual theme would follow the system's dark or light theme setting.

My system

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 6.3.3-1-MANJARO
Resolution: 3840x2400
DE: GNOME 43.5
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 6650H with Radeon Graphics (12) @ 4.564GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 680M
Memory: 11266MiB / 15254MiB
Display protocol: Wayland
Audio server: PipeWire
Session and policy manager: WirePlumber

Introduce a priority input / output feature

Right click a i/o to make it the default for everything so Default Audio, Default Midi, Default Video, etc.. and have an ability for the Default to have a slightly different color and its connections have different colors which relates to #7

Allow people / apps to change the buffer size, sample rate, etc.

you can change these settings in /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf or your distros equilavent i think
also if possible having different settings for each connection / device would be cool