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.

  • erebion@news.erebion.euEnglish
    3·
    4 days 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.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.

    Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.

    • dil@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Blender and davinci? Prob doesn’t compare, but they run natively ar least.

    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Its funny because there is really good animation software on Linux. Problem is its difficult. But what it does is real good!

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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          2 days ago

          Ok for example, and this isn’t the only one, OpenToonz. It is the direct and open source descendant of the same software that Studio Ghibli used.

          You would need to learn it. You would need to create your own custom pipeline workflows. And you would need to be an artist.

    • dil@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Kvm/libvirt windows vm maybe? It opens windows apps as linux apps, issue comes with using gpu but toonboom seems cpu and ram intensive?

      You would just set it up normally in the vm then open the app through your start menu as you would normally.

  • habitualTartare@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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
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      4 days 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.

        • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
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          2 days 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
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            2 days 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.

  • Crash@lemmy.ml
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    4 days 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

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I wish Divvy/WinDivvy worked on Linux. There are similar alternatives, but none that duplicate the functionality.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
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    4 days 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
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      4 days 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

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago
    • ImageMagick
    • Ghostscript
    • Pandoc
    • LittleCMS (CMS: Color Management System)
    • Wireguard
    • Rclone
    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days 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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        2 days 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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          2 days 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.

  • RightEdofer@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Some QT or Cosmic takes on Pika Backup. The maybe unrealistic dream would be some new non gtk photo dam that ignores editing all together and hands off files as needed to an editor like vkdt. Kinda like Adobe Bridge.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days 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.

  • Koffie@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    A graphical ‘advanced’ package manager for Qt / KDE. Something to replace Muon which is/was the KDE equivalent of Synaptic but no longer available in Kubuntu. Discover shows you apps (both snap and apt), Muon showed packages with all sort of relevant technical information (source, dependencies, ‘reverse dependencies’, installed files). I guess everything Synaptic/Muon does is also available through the various apt subcommands but there is value in a decent GUI to bundle those individual commands and their output.

  • folekaule@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I don’t have a concrete idea for you, but I suggest starting with something really simple. I think simple games are a good place to start. Or create a front-end for some command line tool to make it easier on beginners. That way you can focus on the UI development you’re interested in without getting bogged down in the rest of it.

    • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 days ago

      This is some sage advice thank you. I’m guilt of always starting something super difficult and then going back. My first couple qt projects were forcibly scoped because I had actually end users I needed to keep in mind and that helped immensely.

      • folekaule@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        I speak standing on a hill if my own dead projects. Just remember personal projects are supposed to be fun and educational, maybe with a little resume padding for good measure. Scratch that itch you can’t get to at work. It’s great when other people enjoy them, but as soon as they become a commitment, they start feeling like work. To me, at least.

        That’s why I think games or little tools are great. They small enough so you can throw them out and start over. People won’t get (too) mad if you stop maintaining them (if you open source them) because it’s easy for someone else to take over.

  • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip
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    4 days 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.