Nova Desktop Environment & GUI SDK

This repository groups the complete graphical desktop environment and user interface widget libraries for BoredOS.

Component Layout

• libui/: Core GUI Widget components (buttons, text boxes, windows, rendering, anti-aliased panel outlines).
• libtheme/: Desktop theme loading and graphical assets manager.
• libnovaproto/: IPC and Compositor communication protocol layer.
• src/: Compositor (nova.c), shell bar (taskbar.c), and active wallpaper rendering daemon (wallpaperd.c), along with basic GUI applications.

Decoupled Building & Two-Stage SDK Export

This repository is designed to compile either within the main BoredOS tree OR completely standalone.

1. Integrated Build (Within BoredOS)

If built from the BoredOS root tree, the build system compiles the pure standard library first, then compiles nova passing BOREDOS_SDK. nova compiles libui, libtheme, and libnovaproto, exports them and their headers into the shared SDK (Stage 2 SDK Export), and links the compositor/desktop apps:

make BOREDOS_SDK=/path/to/shared/sdk

2. Standalone Build (Isolated Clone)

If cloned completely separately in isolation, running make will automatically bootstrap standard dependencies:

make

If build/sdk is missing, the Makefile automatically clones the pure standard library dependency from https://github.com/boredos/libc.git, compiles it, installs it to build/sdk, compiles nova's internal libraries, exports them to the local SDK, and builds the graphical apps cleanly in full isolation!

Staging Installation

To stage the compiled executables and configurations into your target initrd root filesystem directory:

make DESTDIR=/path/to/initrd/root install

• Binaries (*.elf) are routed to /bin/
• Styling configurations (*.conf) are routed to /Library/conf/ and /etc/nova/