🏮 Taidan

Taidan is a GUI Out-Of-Box-Experience (OOBE) and Welcome App for Ultramarine Linux, written in Rust and the [Helium] toolkit.

📦 Dependencies

For an up-to-date list, see scripts/taidan.spec.

libhelium
gsettings or (plasma-apply-colorscheme and kwriteconfig6)
shadow-utils
systemd-udev [for systemd-timesyncd.service]
sh
dnf5 and dnf5-command(copr)
flatpak
xkeyboard-config [for /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst]

🛠️ Build Dependencies

pkgconfig(openssl)
pkgconfig(libhelium-1)

Testing

TAIDAN_CATALOGUE_DIR=./catalogue TAIDAN_LOG=trace cargo r

Also, to test if a catalogue category file can be parsed:

cargo run -p taidan_catalogue_parser -- catalogue/browser.yml

📃 License

The rust code is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

Copyright © 2024~2025  Fyra Labs & Ultramarine Linux Contributors

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

However, some sources of Taidan are separately licensed, notably:

• scripts/libexec/ (GPL-2.0-or-later, see scripts/libexec/README.md)
• data/window-manager/ (GPL-2.0-or-later, see data/window-manager/README.md)

In order words, most files are licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, but Taidan is strictly GPL-3.0-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later.