Riftbook
By
@inoty
- 2 Devlogs
- 5 Total hours
Proot Container Utility For Chromebooks & Android Phones
Rough Draft - Driftbook Day 2-3
Hello, it’s me, Inoty, you know your weird uncle who was strangely into inspecting syringes at pharmacies? Yeah anyways, I don’t have much progress to share today… BUT! I still have lots of things to talk about as for the future of this project!
Where have I been?
I was busy getting my home pc to be remote accessible from school, so I can work on this project even more! This took a while, but it’s finally done. That’s why there wasn’t much progress yesterday, things should speed up from now on.
What did I even do?
Glad you asked! I worked a lot on the graphics this time around, made a banner for the project as you can tell, made a semi-finished readme.md, and guess what? The script finally DOES something! Yeah that’s right, The script will now install all the necessary packages! Will it configure them? No. But its certainly a start! I also made a lot of banner graphics and such, which took me a while…
What’s next?
After I make the script fully configure and install your system, I’ll make a proper CLI for it, after that design a custom launcher to start XPRA from! Then I’ll do little tweaks to the DE to make it truly good looking! Planning on adding the option to choose between Lxqt and Sway, right now it’ll only allow you to install sway unfortunately.
Conclusion
I am slowly losing my sanity, as the world spins, spins! The world keep moving on as im stuck here coding this project, I actually skipped gym today to finish this in preparation for this exact post! Why am I doing this? I got no clue honestly… Anyways, see you next time!
Starting Work On Riftbook! - Day 0-1
Hello, it’s me, Inoty. You know, your long-list twin brother? Family relations aside, I want to talk about my great and amazing new project named “Riftbook”! Isn’t it just amazing? I certainly think so, Riftbook is a glorified install script for a Debian container meant to run inside of Chromebooks! “Oh but Inoty, oh your so cool and awesome, but doesn’t ChromeOS already ship with a Debian Container?” First off, shut up, and yeah, it does. But not all Chromebooks support it, either way this comes with a separate Desktop Enviroment that gets streamed directly to your browser for your pleasure! So even if you do have access to the container, I’d recommend using this anyway. (Not Biased In Any Way)
What’s Currently Completed
I have completed the watermark and branding for the project; alongside a rough outline of the install script, right now it’ll only install the container with some bundled packages, but fear not! More is coming soon! I want it to configure the Web Display for you, which might take me a while. But I think I may have the brain capacity to make it work (not really)
Design
Wowzers! A design section, I just cant wait! I designed the logo with the spiral tool in affinity, of course distorted a little, as a cheeky little reference to its Debian origins! The palette was proposed to me by @starvulkan (hate that guy)
Where does the name come from?
Well, this was originally going to be called “Driftbook” but I decided to change the name, due to the fact that I had the idea of it opening a “Rift” from ChromeOS to the Debian Container! The book comes from Chromebook (Duh)
Conclusion
My key takeaway from the short amount of time I’ve been working on this project is: I’ve already started going insane please help.
