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+# Foobar
+
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/hannesschulze/foobar)](license.txt)
+[![Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/hannesschulze/foobar?sort=semver)](https://github.com/hannesschulze/foobar/releases)
+
+Foobar is a bar, launcher, control center, and notification daemon I wrote for my personal desktop.
+
+Although it was not designed to be a fully modular widget system like [ags](https://github.com/Aylur/ags) or [eww](https://github.com/elkowar/eww.git), it does offer some customization options.
+
+| Default Configuration | A [Customized](pub/teatime.conf) Configuration |
+|:---:|:---:|
+| ![](pub/default.png) | ![](pub/teatime.png) |
+
+## Features
+
+Current features include:
+- **Panel** with customizable items
+	- **Icon item:** only displays an icon (duh)
+	- **Clock item:** displays the current time
+	- **Workspace item:** displays active workspaces (for hyprland)
+	- **Status item:** displays the current status for things like battery level, brightness level, volume, network connectivity, notifications
+- **Launcher**
+	- Currently only supports launching applications based on `.desktop` files
+- **Control Center** with two sections
+	- **Controls section:** allows managing audio devices, brightness level, etc.
+	- **Notifications section:** shows previous notifications
+- **Notification Area** which displays incoming notifications
+
+## Installation
+
+### Dependencies
+
+These dependencies must be present before building:
+
+- `meson`
+- `ninja`
+- `glib`
+- `gtk4`
+- `json-glib`
+- `alsa-lib`
+- `libpulseaudio`
+- `libnm`
+- `libwayland`
+- `gobject-introspection`
+- [`gtk4-layer-shell`](https://github.com/wmww/gtk4-layer-shell) (otherwise it will be built as a subproject)
+
+In addition, these dependencies should be available at runtime:
+
+- `upower` (for battery state)
+- `brightnessctl` (for adjusting brightness level)
+- `hyprland` (for listing workspaces)
+
+### Building
+
+To manually build foobar, run the following commands:
+
+```sh
+git clone https://github.com/hannesschulze/foobar.git && cd foobar
+meson setup build --prefix=/usr
+ninja -C build
+```
+
+Then, install it using the following command:
+
+```sh
+sudo ninja install -C build
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+Please refer to the man pages that are automatically installed:
+
+```sh
+man foobar
+```
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [license.txt](license.txt) file for details.
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