Room for new packages

What about Ctrlr, a programmable (lua scripting) midi editor for hardware sequencers, written in Juce?
I don't know an alternative for this software in Linux.
The stable downloadable binaries (at ctrlr.org) are working without issues in Kaos, but maybe, when compilated from source code in Kaos, this software will be still more integrated in Kaos.

Another proposition: luatex.
Luatex offers pdftex enriched with the lua scripting language.

demm
Qtractor and lmms (via wine?) can load (some?) vst's (important feature to use only one midi port), but can not construct them.
Using Ctrlr, you can construct midi editors for nearly any midi hardware (sequencer, mixer, sampler., drummachine..) both as a standalone editor or as a vst-plugin. And this in different ways for every single machine (library, patch editor, mixer, sysex dump organiser ...). Ctrlr can output this drivers also as a xml file.
So Ctrlr can be a very useful auxiliary program for such software as qtractor , lmms or Rosegarden.
It features also the lua scripting language that still enhances its use in a steep way.

Nevertheless you are right to favour software used by many users.
And it is really a pity it isn't Qt centered. But I'm not aware of an alternative in linux

@demm more investigation is needed

 toni  ~  export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
 toni  ~  vainfo 
libva info: VA-API version 1.6.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'iHD'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so has no function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit
 toni  ~  1  nm --demangle -D /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so | grep __vaDriverInit
0000000000483120 T __vaDriverInit_1_7

Libva searches for __vaDriverInit_1_0 but new driver provides __vaDriverInit_1_7

// Edit: That was a partial update, only new packages was installed, i update libva as well, it works

 toni  ~  export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD
 toni  ~  vainfo 
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'iHD'
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.7.1)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 20.1.1 (b78a8d7f)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileNone                   : VAEntrypointStats
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple            : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main              : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264Main               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264High               : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVC1Simple              : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main                : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline           : VAEntrypointEncPicture
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP8Version0_3          : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileHEVCMain               : VAEntrypointFEI
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileHEVCMain10             : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVP9Profile0            : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVP9Profile2            : VAEntrypointVLD

Should new driver set new environment variable export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD by default when installed and to remove when deinstalled?

hi Demm,

I just discovered BashTop, a really cool system monitoring thing written entirely in Bash, see here:
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/04/bashtop-is-cool-linux-resource-monitor.html

It depends on core packages we already have in KaOS (this is the PKGBUILD for Arch):

# Maintainer: Sébastien Luttringer

pkgname=bashtop
pkgver=0.8.15
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='Linux resource monitor'
arch=('any')
url="https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop"
license=('Apache')
depends=('bash' 'coreutils' 'grep' 'sed' 'gawk' 'procps-ng')
makedepends=('git')
optdepends=(
  'curl: themes download'
  'lm_sensors: cpu temperatures'
)
source=("git+https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop.git#tag=v$pkgver")
sha256sums=('SKIP')

package() {
	cd $pkgname
	install -Dm755 bashtop -t "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
}

I would love to see this one added, since it would take very little extra package space to get part of default KaOS. What do you think?

If it's a bad idea, let me know, I'll add it on KCP...

Cheers,
Gunther