Weaver Desktop

A lightweight desktop environment for embedded Linux and SBCs. Thin UI client — delegates all system operations to system daemon.

Status: 🚧 Not a fully polished MVP yet — active development and portfolio piece.

Branch Status:

• ✅ main — stable, builds
• 🚧 feature/ux-ui-flex-layouting-app-design — widget system refactoring, currently build errors

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dominikj111/Weaver-Desktop.git
cd Weaver-Desktop
cargo run

--recursive is required to fetch submodules. Icons are optional — app uses emoji fallbacks.

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What It Is

Weaver is a pure GUI desktop environment built in Rust/egui, targeting Raspberry Pi Zero, cyberdecks, kiosks, and resource-constrained embedded Linux. Target footprint: <50MB.

The UI never performs privileged operations directly — it delegates everything to a system daemon handling hardware control, service management, and device abstraction. This keeps the interface lightweight and the architecture clean.

Key idea: Weaver doesn't know about GPIO pins or system services — it knows about devices and panels. A 230V relay becomes "Desk Socket", an I2C sensor becomes "Current: 2.4A". Domain-level control, not electrical primitives.

The same binary reshapes into a traditional desktop, kiosk, cyberdeck control panel, or industrial HMI — driven by configuration templates, not code changes.

Origin

Built from a concrete need: a trusted, offline-first control interface for distributed solar power installations. Field hardware, high-voltage relays, minimal compute. The constraint made the architecture.

Current Development Focus

• Widget composition — trait-based, flexible layout system
• State management — efficient reactive updates
• Minimal rendering — lazy layout computation, on-demand updates for ARM targets

License

MIT — see LICENSE