The Minimalist’s Fortress: Taming the Tiling Chaos with Omablue

There is a peculiar, almost masochistic joy in the Linux community for taking something perfectly functional and making it slightly more difficult to use in the name of "efficiency." We call this tiling window management. It is the digital equivalent of architectural brutalism—all sharp edges, nested boxes, and a steep learning curve that discourages the uninitiated.

Enter Omablue, my side project that dares to ask a radical question: What if your "desktop" was as secure as a fallout bunker but as easy to navigate as a well-organized sock drawer?

The Security of Secureblue Meets the Aesthetics of Order

At its core, Omablue is an attempt to bring a "ready-to-go" tiling experience to Secureblue Sericea. For the unacquainted, Secureblue is the operating system equivalent of wearing a suit of armor to a tea party—it is hardened, atomic, and profoundly uninterested in your system being compromised.

However, Secureblue came also with Gnome or KDE flavour but I'm a masochist as said before and i love tiling window manager and the default Sericea is one of the most ugliest thing ever made after windows vista. Omablue seeks to bridge that gap, drawing aesthetic inspiration from the sleek lines of Omarchy while maintaining the rigid safety standards of its parent.
The project itself born after i sea a "trust all policy " for omarchy repo... That made me shudder.

Scripts, Scripts, Scripts

The current state of Omablue is build on minimalism priniciples. While many modern desktop environments are bloated with features that exist solely to occupy RAM, Omablue is lean. It manages Webapps, Flatpaks, and the Homebrew ecosystem through a curated selection of custom scripts triggered by Rofi and key bindings.

In an amusing twist of irony, the project relies on exactly one third-party aesthetic dependency: Gum. It appears that even in the world of high-security minimalism, one must have a "good-looking" terminal. One cannot be expected to save the world, or at least one's files, using an interface that looks like a 1984 bank ledger.

The Product Manager’s Gambit

The architect is not a career software engineer but a Product Manager (me) with a profound affection for open source. In a move that will surely trigger the purists, the scripts powering Omablue were built with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence.
It is a modern tale: a human with a vision using a machine to write code to protect themselves from other machines. You can put shame me or you can contribute the project (github repo there) with your knowledge in order to get better code.

Omablue is currently in its nascent stages, missing several features that the "more is more" crowd might demand. It doesn't want to be everything to everyone; it simply wants to be a secure, tidy place to work for those who find the default desktop experience a bit too... chaotic.
Assuming, of course, you don't mind little AI-generated shell scripts under. I'm sorry, but AI write code better than mine.