Roadmap

Ideas, not commitments

This is a thinking-out-loud list. Items may change, move or never happen. What exists today is documented in the rest of this site; the release notes list what actually shipped.

More launcher tools

The everyday developer utilities are now built in: URL and HTML encoding, JSON, YAML and TOML conversion, number bases and bit tools, IP and CIDR maths, chmod, text case and counts, an HTTP reference, an Open Graph viewer, web search shortcuts and Can I use. See The launcher. What is next:

• Your own search engines: add a keyword and a URL with %s in Settings, next to the built-in web search list.
• Can I use offline from the first run: today the data is downloaded the first time and kept in the browser. A bundled copy would work from the start but would make the program several hundred kilobytes larger.

Each new tool would also become a widget, as every launcher tool already is.

Profiles for different users

Today there is one dashboard per database. Profiles would give each person their own tiles, layout, background and settings:

• Switch profile from the launcher or the menu.
• One database, or one file per profile, so backups stay simple.
• A shared profile that others can use read-only (see Locked mode).

Profiles would be about separate dashboards, not security: real access control would need proper sign-in, which is a separate piece of work.

Host-runnable commands

Let the launcher run command-line programs on the machine hosting Home Screen, for example ffmpeg to convert a video, or a script you use every week.

The idea:

• Commands are declared in a configuration file by you, as an allow-list, with named arguments (ffmpeg-gif {input} {output}). The launcher can only run what you declared.
• A panel shows live output, the exit code and how long it took, with a timeout and a way to cancel.
• Nothing runs in locked mode unless that command is explicitly marked as allowed there.

Because this lets a web page start programs, it needs careful design before anything is built: allow-list only, local origin only, no shell interpolation of user text, and clear logging.

Have an idea?

Open an issue on GitHub (temporary link) and say what you reach for that Home Screen does not have yet.