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Whether it's for eye candy, quality of life improvements or adding extra features, there's never enough customisation options in the scene! In particular, the Switch seems to be a popular target of said releases and, if you're a fan of those, you'll want to check out what @XorTroll 's upcoming project has to offer.

"Project Home" (temporary name) is a WIP Home menu replacement for Nintendo's hybrid console. If you've been following the developer's other works, then you may recall how he had already planned to introduce a similar functionality in Goldleaf, his own title installer and multipurpose tool. However, this idea became much more ambitious than he anticipated, which made him split the two into separate branches, making Project Home a successor to said feature! Talking about functions, while there are a few comparable to those we've already seen in similar applications (like folders and BGM support) a couple of others are also included that makes it stand out from the competition: for example, it uses a custom HBL to target homebrew and allows you to add shortcuts to NRO apps right on your home screen! Themes are also supported via JSON "layouts" and it also features a notification service (not seen in the video) that can be used by sysmodules and homebrew to display messages on-screen, which has already been tested and confirmed to be working with Emuiibo.

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Project Home is going to be open source and it's made using Plutionium, a UI framework created by the same developer. It will be compatible with both Atmosphère and ReiNX. While there is no ETA yet, development is said to be near complete. If you have a suggestion for its final name, feel free to write it as a reply below!

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[Chocola]

Make Flog the default but include an option somewhere to adjust that to another installed title if present (Pkmn or a Demo e.g.).

Can be a workarround if any title it's valid yes

 

[Deleted_413010]

l thank the developer for not supporting the SX OS

 

[Idontknowwhattoputhere]

l thank the developer for not supporting the SX OS

lol why would a good dev like xortroll support sx os?

 

[Chocola]

l thank the developer for not supporting the SX OS

Isn't planned, just if we don't know the code and their custom implementations, it's harder make it compatible for their.

 

[momin]

No cover flow no party (no emu flow no party neither).

Kidding! Amazing job, hope this gets improving!

 

[Qubarf]

my opinion. It'd be really cool if the menu that comes up when you long-press the home button could be edited to include options to enable/disable sys-modules like sys-ftp, emuiibo, etc.

I agree!

 

[XorTroll]

I agree!

That's a different title, named overlayDisp. @exelix11 and @crc32 are working on layoff, a custom replacement. Sadly, 8.x+ fails for some unknown reason.

 

[xxNathanxx]

I'd agree with you if it weren't for the fact that Project Home and DeltaLaunch are completely different projects that appear to have different goals in mind. Heck, this one's even open sourced while the other isn't.

Sure, I was just speaking in general, not with these two projects in mind. If they have different goals then of course they should probably not be working together on the same project, because then you get the other big problem of many free software projects: feature bloat and options to manage the options that manage the options. People often think they have different goals when they just want to make a really minor adjustment, or they think that they have the same goals but can never agree on a good way to do things and so make everything into an option. "It causes my system to crash" "Okay, we'll add an option to not crash your system". But again, I'm not talking about Home or DeltaLaunch in particular, I don't think it even applies to them.

 

[XorTroll]

After some doubts I think I like the name "Eclipse", but yet unsure, since a certainly well-known IDE has the same name.
Maybe qEclipse...?

 

[Chocola]

After some doubts I think I like the name "Eclipse", but yet unsure, since a certainly well-known IDE has the same name.
Maybe qEclipse...?

Seems good name for me, it's related with Horizon, but these q fuck the name, probably we can find another astronomical phenomenon, I think on Meteor but it's taked too by javascript framework

It's really hard to find a good name without append the q as first letter :/

 

[XorTroll]

Lol didn't realize the relationship between Horizon and Eclipse... lmao

Current idea: GitHub organization will be "eclipse-nx" (to distinguish between Eclipse IDE and this) and the HOME menu replacement repo will be "EclipseMenu".

 

[Chocola]

Lol didn't realize the relationship between Horizon and Eclipse... lmao

Current idea: GitHub organization will be "eclipse-nx" (to distinguish between Eclipse IDE and this) and the HOME menu replacement repo will be "EclipseMenu".

Definitively better "-nx" than "q", I like it ^^

 

[lordelan]

Lol didn't realize the relationship between Horizon and Eclipse... lmao

Current idea: GitHub organization will be "eclipse-nx" (to distinguish between Eclipse IDE and this) and the HOME menu replacement repo will be "EclipseMenu".

Why not Eqlipse?

(or Éclipse to follow the french pattern)

probably we can find another astronomical phenomenon

Supernova, obviously

 

[XorTroll]

For some reason I love the name eqlipse. I think I'm gonna to rename everything again... (just moved a repo so doesn't matter)

 

[lordelan]

For some reason I love the name eqlipse. I think I'm gonna to rename everything again... (just moved a repo so doesn't matter)

Best decision of your life.

 

[thequickbrownfox]

XorTroll, this is absolutely amazing!
Any updates?

 

[lordelan]

XorTroll, this is absolutely amazing!
Any updates?

He has just too many important projects at the same time. Would be good if he could do this:

 

[linuxares]

He has just too many important projects at the same time. Would be good if he could do this:

Or someone would be intrested in picking up his projects and help develop them.

 

[Chocola]

Or someone would be intrested in picking up his projects and help develop them.

I'm working on that, I have experience as developer and seems C++ so not seem a big problem with this, I just need setup the Switch enviroment and see how I can debug the homebrew apps.

For now I have the devkit installed and my emuMMC are ready, so soon I can start to contribute I guess.

Probably he can provide a short explanation of how I should build and test the homebrew, we are from same country too, so we can talk without problems.

If i'm not wrong, he it's on vacations now, so it's possible that we need wait a bit for his comeback, meanwhile I gona try my best.

 

[xHardcoreChildx]

Is this project dead for good?