#+title: sparkly-ebuilds
#+author: winter Sparkles

this is a collection of gentoo packages you can use but i just made them
for myself

* plover
install =app-text/plover= for the open source stenography engine [[https://opensteno.org/plover/][Plover]].
it's written in python, currently targeting python 3.13, but in my
testing it also works flawlessly on 3.14.

note that the only officially supported installation method is appimage;
personally i hate appimages so that's why i made this set of packages
but do bear in mind it may have sneaky unexpected bugs. if you encounter
any bugs using this package please report them to *me* and not to the
upstream plover project unless they also occur with the appimage.

** plugins
- the integrated Plugins Manager inside plover will not work, as it
  tries to install python modules globally which is blocked by gentoo.
  therefore you have to install them via portage. i packaged a few here
- see the category =plover-plugin= (e.g. =plover-plugin/lapwing-aio= for
  [[https://lapwing.aerick.ca/][Lapwing]] support)
- =app-text/plover2cat= for the transcription software [[https://plover2cat.readthedocs.io/][Plover2CAT]]

* niri-screenshot-tools
install =gui-apps/niri-screenshot-tools= for the awesome cool software
that lets you annotate and upload your screenshots from niri (source
[[https://codeberg.org/whenthesilly/niri-screenshot-tools][here]])! beware it's a live ebuild so you have to unmask it in your system
portage config

* vintage story
install =games-action/vintage-story= for the voxel sandbox survival game
[[https://www.vintagestory.at/][Vintage Story]]. currently the package is not very well tested and also is
amd64 only. if you find a bug tell me

* shitposts
=sparkly-misc/wruff= literally just puts a message saying "wruff!" as
its post-installation task and does literally nothing else it doesn't
actually install anything. i don't know why i did this to be honest. if
you will use it i suggest don't add it to your world set just oneshot it