Hi Linux Lemmites. Recently finished up school and started working full time and kind of miss working on personal projects. I’m looking to try to make something in rust and try out gpui if I can figure it out or maybe egui. I also want to make something maybe even a handful of people would actually use as I find that motivating, so I ask what would actually be useful to you?

Edit: thank you all very much for the input, I think that maybe doing something akin to a “settings+” would be a fair target for me for a n initial project. If I make anything interesting I’ll make another post in this sub.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      5 months ago

      This is kind of what partition managers do, no?

      And CLI-wise, you can just open it in nano… Or where you talking about something interactive?

      • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn’t find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          5 months ago

          Nano is the way to do it in CLI.

          Should be:

          sudo nano /etc/fstab

          Should bring your fstab file up right in the terminal. Make the edits and then hit Ctrl+x to exit and save. Reboot to see if it worked.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago
    • Bulk unarchiver or a frontend for ffmpeg (using existing tools, both get very messy when special characters or multiple directories are involved)
      • Existing ffmpeg GUIs have had fixed lists of formats and options, making new or obscure ones inaccessible. There also needs to be an option to export the command based on GUI selections so the user can learn if they choose, or fix the command if something isn’t right.
    • Adding the little details of Windows File Manager (i.e. Format dialog, search by attribute like MP3 bitrate) to some existing Linux file manager
    • Mounting of network drives in Linux graphical file managers: many of them handle it through gvfs, which for some reason insists on mountpoints with long directory paths and special characters, breaking compatibility with various utilities
    • Extending Linux Mint’s libadapta to further restore theming in libadwaita apps. This I am personally looking forward to contribute to as more programs move to libadwaita and disrupt the look I’ve painstakingly set up for my desktop.
    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      These are all some very good ideas. I particularly like the ffmpeg idea. I do think a file manager is on the horizon for me eventually as well, I’ve always wanted to try making one

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    8·
    6 months ago

    For a bit of mindfuck check kdialog : Tool to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts

    Maybe the shell truly is enough BUT in some cases, say you want to help somebody who for some reason doesn’t want the terminal, you can bring the bare minimum of UI to give utility. My favorite example is the file picker e.g kdialog --getopenfilename "*txt" | wc -l as most CLI commands do support a filename as input.

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Pebble app. There’s Rockwork, but outside of Ubuntu Touch it will only produce empty notifications. There’s Rockpool, that’s only for SailfishOS. There’s Amazfish, but so far it can only pair and then… nothing.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    I wish Scratch was more powerful, kind of like Flash was back in the day, so that it would be easier to make more complicated things with it. I feel right now if you want to make a somewhat real game it gets too hard too quickly because you need to work around the limitations.

  • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip
    2·
    6 months ago

    I would love a good WYIWYG desktop screenwriting software.

    Writing fountain markup just doesn’t work for me. it’s hard to explain, and sounds precious, but if my brain is in markup mode it’s not in creative mode and vice versa.

    Some of the ok ones from the past have been abandoned.

    I bought a pro license of fade in which is supposed to be available for Linux but it won’t install and support didn’t solve it. So I have to work exclusively from my Windows machine… Which I don’t love doing.

    Linux is still a difficult environment for creative work.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    33·
    6 months ago

    GUI for Pipewire configuration. Being able to reliably change the sample rate and buffer size without having to mess with config files would be nice.

  • Valentine Angell@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 months ago

    A real Photoshop replacement. GIMP is cool, but ain’t it. I have yet to find ANY software that can replace PS. I’ve even tried using multiple programs to replace PS, and it just doesn’t work. I fucking HATE Adobe.

    • ohlaph@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 months ago

      Krita, after som tinkering, has replaced it for me, but I’m not a Photoshop power user either.

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 months ago

      I’m not an artist by any definition, but I am wholeheartedly behind the sentiment of excising the cancerous growth that is the Adobe company out of existence. You may have seen this website before, but have you checked out fuckadobe.com? Alternatives are a little ways down, past the wall of text.

    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’d love to do something this big in scope eventually maybe a couple projects down the road but I’d definitely want rust to be at the level of my main languages before I delve into that depth. I also would want to avoid the gimp development times it seems it takes forever for stuff over there

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 months ago

    A part of the desktop GUI that opens git forge stuff for installed apps. Like I want to just right click “submit code issue” for an app and have it open a proper templates issue for that given project. Right click and select “see source code” and it pops open my ide of choice. Add some integrations for building and installing forks and branches so I can test my changes in real time.

  • habitualTartare@lemmy.world
    232·
    6 months ago

    GUI for managing fingerprints/PAM that allows complicated or at least some customization with PAM such as requiring password on first login then allowing graphical fingerprints for sudo, unlock and other prompts with fallback to password.

    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      6 months ago

      I think this a pretty good idea. There’s a few other ideas below as well that are like settings tweaks or ui for them, it might be cool to build out something kinda like what opensuse has with a bunch of settings put into a graphical app.

  • Crash@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    I wish there was any alternative to after effects. It’s what keeps me in the adobe system. It’s so good and there’s actually nothing comparable out there.

    I also havent enjoyed any open source video editing software either. A lot of them don’t have the specs for bigger more rhobust projects

  • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net
    17·
    6 months ago

    Qt version of cool GTK software: Nicotine+, Ardour (ahahah), Lutris, Cartridges

    Qt software I would love to see graphically improved: QuodLibet, Falkon, Qbittorrent, KeePass

    Others: PeerTube client, Syncthing client, Ardour+Kdenlive fusion (a good Video DAW is my wet dream), Lemmy for desktop

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    6 months ago

    A standalone utility for decoding QR codes that will work on a desktop. All I want is to be able to put a picture of the code in and get whatever text it was concealing in a little text box where I can read it, and C&P it if it’s useful to do so. If something like this exists, I’ve never been able to find it, although there are seemingly dozens of programs for generating QR codes.

    • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Should be very possible. Are you on Linux or Windows? Please write me again at the end of the week if I didn’t come back to you.

    • Kevin@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      I wrote a little script a while back that would save a temp file with fswebcam, run zbarimg on it to decode the qr, delete the temp file and if it worked it would pipe the output into xclip/wl-copy, otherwise it would try again (up to 8 times).

      I hooked it up to a keyboard shortcut and I’ll see the webcam light flash one or two times when I hit it, then know it’s good.

      It wouldn’t be a ton of work to also have a popup with the qr value using zenity or something, maybe use the --question and pass it “copy $output to clipboard?”. You could have an --error if all the scan attempts failed.

      Feel free to shoot me a pm if you want help.

        • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Sorry, I don’t understand what that means in this context. When I switched from Windows to Linux,I didn’t notice any difference in Calibre.

          • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            Your question, “What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?” cannot be answered without accepting an unargued premise: that the windows version has more features than the Linux version.

            No one was saying that, so your question is begging the question.

            That is what begging the question means in the uk, unless I’m mistaken.

            Some context, which you may or may not be aware of, that makes the original comment funny, is that recently, Calibre, which had been a very boring piece of software, has started including a bunch of AI features. So there are some new forks that intend to make a drop in replacement for Calibre without the unwanted features.

            • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 months ago

              Your question, “What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?” cannot be answered without accepting an unargued premise: that the windows version has more features than the Linux version.

              Nope, it simply asks (or even expresses genuine curiosity) about a subset of features on windows which might be missing in Linux version. That’s if you want to be super logical and fussy about things. If not, you could have just answered or moved the discussion in any relevant direction you would like. That was always allowed.

              Ironically, you kinda did answer it, at least in part, by mentioning the AI slop bloat. Why hide your answer behind a wall of being a jerk, though? I can only speculate. Too little sleep, too many old Rationality Rules videos? :-) Thatt’s none of my business; I just hope you feel better now.

              • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                5 months ago

                It assumes the windows version has features the Linux version does not have, which is a question in bad faith, and difficult to answer. Hence “begging the question”.