LazyDesktop

Git, the way your desktop intended.

A fast, native Git client built with Rust and GPUI. No Electron. No web runtime. No waiting — just a clean, keyboard-friendly application designed to feel at home on your desktop.

Think GitHub Desktop, reimagined as a lightweight native application.

Built on Rust + GPUI. The interface lives in crates/app and talks directly to the backend Rust crates (git_cmd, ai_core, vcs_core, config) — no application-level FFI, no C++ UI layer, and no web-based frontend.

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Why LazyDesktop?

• Native performance — Built with Rust and rendered with GPUI. A responsive interface designed to keep up with your workflow.
• Desktop-first design — A focused interface with keyboard-friendly workflows and adaptable appearance, without tying the application to a specific desktop environment.
• Lightweight by design — No Electron, no embedded web runtime, and no browser-sized application overhead.
• Your data stays yours — AI commit messages can run 100% locally on your own GPU. No account, no cloud, no telemetry.
• Keyboard-friendly — Everyday Git work is only a few keystrokes away.

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Features

Everyday Git, without the ceremony

• See what changed at a glance — Color-coded status list: modified = yellow, added = green, deleted = red, renamed = purple, untracked = gray.
• Stage by choice — Check exactly the files you want. A master Select All checkbox lives in the header bar.
• Review diffs like a pro — Clean diff view with line numbers and syntax highlighting. Images (png, jpg, webp, gif, …) render inline; videos get a tidy placeholder.
• Commit in one click — Summary plus optional description, done. A lightning-bolt toggle skips pre-commit hooks (--no-verify).
• Give credit, automatically — Co-author detection scans the checked files' Git history and appends Co-authored-by: trailers for you.
• Push, fetch, pull — one smart button — It cycles through push, fetch, and pull based on your repository's state. No menu hunting.
• Manage remotes directly — Add, edit, rename, remove, or copy a remote's URL straight from the toolbar. Powered by the bundled crates/vcs_core Rust crate — no git remote subprocess, no extra dependencies.
• SSH keys, done right — Generate Ed25519 or RSA-4096 keypairs (optionally passphrase-encrypted), list or copy your public keys, delete them, and test connections. All handled by the application — no ssh-keygen or ssh subprocess.
• Branch and switch with ease — Create, switch, and delete branches from one dropdown.
• A history you can explore — Tabbed sidebar with a color-coded commit list. Click a commit to see its files; click a file to see its diff.

Projects, organized

• Add a project in three ways — Clone a repository, create one with git init, or load an existing folder.
• Recent projects, always handy — Persistent history in projects.lua, grouped by remote owner/org, with a yellow dot on repositories holding uncommitted changes.
• Scan a folder — Bulk-import every Git repository inside a directory.
• Keep it tidy — Remove one project or clear the whole list, with friendly confirmation dialogs.

AI commit messages that write themselves

• In the cloud — Generate a summary and description from the diffs of your checked files. OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI Studio are all supported. Add your API key in Settings → AI.
• Or fully local — Built-in GGUF model support with one-click downloads from HuggingFace, a GPU acceleration toggle, and complete model management. Inference runs inside the bundled Rust crate crates/ai_core (powered by llama-cpp-2) — your diffs never leave your machine.
• Fast switching — Right-click the AI button to switch providers; the model name is configurable in Settings → AI.

AI coding tools that speak your conventions

The repository ships Conventional Commits and branch-creation skills so AI editors produce commit messages and branch names that match your project's rules — every time:

Tool	Location	Skills
OpenCode	.opencode/skills/	commit, create-branch

• commit detects Git vs Jujutsu, studies the diff and recent history, and drafts a Conventional Commits message (type(scope): subject) — committing only after you approve.
• create-branch names branches with the type/scope?/short-description convention (e.g. feat/vcs/jj-support), for both Git and Jujutsu.

A look that adapts to you

• A shared palette token system (crates/app/src/theme.rs) drives every surface, interactive state, and text tier — keeping UI colors consistent.
• Built-in Dark and Light palettes, plus System Default that follows your desktop appearance.
• Custom Lua themes (.theme.lua) pick their mode from the background color; every other shade flows from the matching token set.
• The system monospace font powers the diff viewer; the file list needs no custom painting.

Custom themes

Drop a .theme.lua file into ~/.config/lazydesktop/themes/ and a new theme option appears in Appearance settings:

return {
  name = "Ocean Night",
  colors = {
    background = "#0d1117",
    foreground = "#c9d1d9",
  }
}