Ha, your columns look a lot like why I made my own as well - https://github.com/chicagobuss/crusteo

I loved the utility of paseo but like the OP didn't want to build on web frameworks, so I re-wrote all of it in rust with zed's ui framework for the frontend desktop client.

More on my personal blog about it here: https://chicagobuss.dev/blog/my-setup/