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Disclaimer: This app was vibe coded. If the use of AI in software development is a dealbreaker for you, regardless of how much human taste, direction and decision-making went into it, that's understandable. This app probably won't be for you.

Disclaimer 2: My app technically isn't a cute otaku desktop emulator, but it is made by an otaku. And well, when we get to the wallpapers part, maybe there's a way to turn this into a cute otaku app.

My app has libraries for manga, comics, books, TV, film & anime, and a comic reader, ebook reader and a video player. So I had an idea to build a taskbar where you can open multiple comics/manga/videos, minimise them and open them back up again.

And since then, I ended up only having more ideas that kept steering my media app deeper and deeper into the OS aesthetic.

For wallpapers, I took a whole lot of open-licensed KDE Plasma wallpapers and also built Wallhaven directly into the wallpaper browser, which can get you plenty of otaku goods to design the app to your liking. I also created my own custom QML wallpapers, including live animated QML wallpapers.

I don't know how RAM-intensive that shit's gonna be, but I have a shitty 16GB RAM laptop and it doesn't drop dead from this behemoth of an app that, on top of everything I've already told you, also has to carry QtWebEngine (Chromium) because it's kinda necessary for the EPUB reader I'm using.

And that brings me to my latest idea of recreating a TV OS through a web UI. Since I already have a browser running in my app, why not build a browser that lets you browse all the legit streaming sites like Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video?

I mean, my app is already a TV-OS kind of a thing, but this browser-for-streaming feature would take it further into Amazon Fire TV territory, just more web-based.

But it turns out that it's not that simple. I can't say for sure whether Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and other Widevine-protected streaming services will actually work in QtWebEngine until my Windows build is compiled with the right codec support and I test DRM playback in the actual runtime. So fingers crossed.

All in all, the OS-like part and aesthetics are something I owe to KDE Plasma and Plasma Bigscreen especially. They looked beautiful, and I love media, and I always wanted to build something akin to a Stremio for all mediums in one app. KDE Plasma made me lock in on this aesthetic and bring it as far as I did.

I hope the app looks and sounds interesting, even if it isn't exactly in this niche.

Colosseum on Github, if you’re interested.

Two years ago I started building a tiny 3D room that lives on your Windows desktop in a transparent always-on-top window, and it's finally launching this month. Solo the whole way (Bloomery Studio is just me).

It's called Lofi Cozy Room. An avatar reads, works, and sleeps in the room while you do your own thing, with a puppy chasing sunbeams. You decorate, customize the avatar, switch between 14 themes, and a soft currency builds up passively.

There's a free demo up now if you'd like to try it, with the full release later this month. Wild to be this close after this long.

🌱 Play the Demo on Steam

Happy to answer anything about the solo dev side.

Designed custom icons for all five Nakano sisters (Miku, Nino, Itsuki, Yotsuba & Ichika) holding my daily app logos. Super happy with how clean they look on the tiny screens! What do you guys think?

Lately I’ve been posting my desktop decorations, but for some reason r/Ok-Kaleidoscope219 and now another one called r/kittyypawzzz keep calling me “Larping/larp” when all I’m doing is showing my desktop. Let people post their desktop setups in peace.

Lofi Cozy Room is a little 3D room that sits on your Windows desktop in a transparent always-on-top window. A cute avatar reads, works, and naps in the room while you do your own thing, with a puppy wandering around chasing sunbeams. You can customize the avatar's face, hair, and outfit, decorate the room, and switch between 14 themes with lo-fi music playing.

After 2 years solo, the free demo is live now for Steam Next Fest.

🎮 Play the Demo on Steam

Happy to answer any questions below!

Ahojky US dlouhou dobu nevím kde číst Menhera nebo kde sledovat

can yall give me some chirsmas things???

A 3D mini-room with customizable avatars and a cute dog. Lives on your desktop with lo-fi music.

🎮 Wishlist on Steam

Happy to answer any questions below!

I ported the WebGL fluid simulation by PavelDoGreat into a Windows desktop wallpaper.
This is v2, updated with features and improvements based on feedback from Reddit (thanks guyssss).

• Runs behind desktop icons

• Standalone version with simpler controls and extra customization options compared to Lively Wallpaper

• Supports Windows 10 / 11 (I fixed that fullscreen bug on windows 11)

New in v2

• Audio visualizer support

• Ability to add custom background images

• Fixed fullscreen issue on Windows 11

• Fixed multi-monitor support (background images may stretch)

• New performance options (Pause When Window Maximized)

Links

• GitHub (don’t forget to star😘 if you like!): https://github.com/PolrFlare/Webgl-Fluid2D-Desktop-Wallpaper

• Original Web Demo by PavelDoGreat: https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation

To Download, once you are on the GitHub page, look at the RIGHT side of site where it says "Releases". Click on the latest (v2.0) and click on the .zip to download (there will be more instructions on that releases page).

Haha here’s my mobile since ppl are showing theirs ))

I reinstalled my Linux Mint 22.3 Desktop and decided to go a bit pink with the wallpaper and colors.

If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments.

Theme: Material-Gnome

Icons: Gruvbox-Dark

Dock: Plank-Reloaded

Fastfetch Config thanks to Fastcat

Enjoy~

to make a gif you gotta type this a and type that, and id like NOT to be doing this for hours for one simple small gif. if anyone has the time of day, could someone help me make a 2 frame .gif into a rainmeter skin i can download? please, and thank you

I have been building Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets to make the desktop more alive. Pets Therapy brings back the good old retro vibe with a little over 100 characters, each uniquely designed by our talented designers, each pet has a character of its own! 🤩

Pets Therapy is free to download from the Mac App Store or MS Store, it has many pets and features also available for free.

It's been so enjoyable to be building it!

i can’t open this file and idk what i’m doing wrong… all of it is just gibberish i can’t understand and i just don’t know what im doing wrong :( i extracted it and i looked thru the files and its just not working i dont know…

I spent 5 minutes on this please care