falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Found a nice way to quickly test the webview handling in DPF - a very minimal web browser plugin UI with a manual URL entry! 😱

Loading the online plugin project page inside the plugin itself 😀

I know, nobody asked for this, but its a nice way to test that the feature works. More of a dev tool than being useful for end users.
It's also cool :)

If anybody wants to try: https://github.com/DISTRHO/dear-plugins

I find it a bit "funny" (by that I mean sad) that the most common topic on some Linux forums is how to run Windows apps 😕

Loading Linux plugins on Windows hosts through Wine.
Because a half-step is better than no step.

To be more clear... it's hard to leave FL behind but don't really want to dual-boot or starting relying on Windows plugins.
Its possible to do plugins such that:
- Windows host loads a small shim
- shim loads Linux plugin
- do some little odd XEmbed things to get UIs on Windows host side too

I might make this a "use it if you want, no support whatsoever" project, because Wine breaks too often... 🤔

It's release day! 🚀

https://github.com/trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins

> Podcast Plugins are easy-to-use plugins for speech enhancement, specifically designed for podcasters who can't or don't want to dig deeper into the craft of sound engineering.

Excited to help bring another set of plugins to life! Thanks @trummerschlunk for the trust and opportunity, and somehow always managing to get the funds for these projects 😅

🎉 🎉 🎉

Next plugin UIs are getting to final stages...

Colors still TBD but looks good already I think.

Installed https://jellyfin.org/ today and I am quite surprised how well it works. 👏

Playing media files feels instant, unlike nextcloud that takes several seconds to start video playback...
And finally something for group watching 👏 👏

Also handles music quite nicely.
Makes me want to buy more now haha

Can recommend! #jellyfin

for the curious ones, this is how the color-theme editor looks like...

it is just imgui doing the heavy lifting, yes :)
love that little library for such things

Being able to tweak plugin UI colors is always a treat.

UwU mode activate! ☀️ 💥 🌈

Want to be able to save such colors as user preferences, so it becomes more usable than just for testing.

Doing another little project with @trummerschlunk

Coming soon...

I wonder if it already looks like a real plugin 🤔
My UI skills are a bit lacking, also not a whole lot of time until this needs to be done.
It works nicely though.

PS: Colors to be defined

New release of Cardinal is out!
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.12

Lots of module updates this time, and also some important macOS/AU related fixes.

The online version at https://cardinal.kx.studio/live is updated as well

The "solution" to this is to pay Apple an $100 / year extortion fee (per developer), and also a bit of a convoluted setup to "sign" every single package you make (even automated ones in CI)

If Apple doesn't like you they can just stop accepting your builds. 🤷

ad-hoc builds don't work here, as signed apps are not allowed to load plugins (and libraries) that have been ad-hoc signed.

With this I might just drop macOS support from my projects.

Really not liking what I am seeing with macOS 15.1 and how it associates unsigned apps and packages as "untrustworthy and possibly full of malware".

Did an example with a simple audio plugin package, steps are:
1. Try to open the pkg and have it fail, **do not press "Move to Bin"**
2. Open System Settings, go to security and press "Open Anyway"
3. Click again "Open Anyway" in the new dialog
4. Input password

All this while screen is screaming "UNSAFE!" at you.