Kawaii GPU Panel - project overview

Hello.

I love Linux and I prefer using it in my common life. Last thing I tried - gaming. I was really excited, that I can play my favorite games on the good OS finally.

Only the one thing I don't like - lack of GPU control software (like Afterburner for Windows). This is really important for me. That's the reason why I decided to create my own GPU control panel.

Kawaii GPU Panel - this is software, that allows you to control your dedicated GPU (sorry, APUs) parameters, like:

Fan speed (also with a curve)
GPU freq
Memory freq

Also, support of profiles (like in Afterburner) was planned as well.

Why we need this thing? We already have something like that or we have the console in the end!

Answers:

This will be fast and easy.
You can customize the program with your favorite waifu (themes are the main aim of the program).
The program was designed as cross-platform software, so you can use it both on Linux/Windows.

The problem

As you can notice, I didn't provide the link to the repo or any screenshot. This is because the program is in the early stage of development. I planned this software almost 2 months ago, but still created only a prototype of UI and wrote a few lines of code.

I have a few reasons why progress is so slow. Some of them will be resolved soon. some - wouldn't.

Anyway, I want to create this program sooner or later. Because the program was planned as fully open-sourced, I decided to announce my plans to the community (you). Maybe some of you will find this idea interesting and will join in the development process.

To let you know more about the project, I also decided to share my docs and diagrams, that I created to make the development easier for the future me (and because I want to become a senior/designer and I need to practice skills like that).

Link to docs (Google Drive)

Also, I want to share a screenshot with the prototype of the UI, that was created by me as the implementation of the planned UI. All values are placeholders for now.

Link to the UI image

Where is the link to the repo?

Because the project is far away from the finish, I decided to keep my repo private until version 1.0 will be released. If you guys will be really interested in it - I will make it public and share the link to it without problems.

That's probably all I want to say. If you have any questions - feel free to ask in the comments.

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