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?
I wish Divvy/WinDivvy worked on Linux. There are similar alternatives, but none that duplicate the functionality.
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
I was gonna say QuodLibet. Strawberry is great but I really liked QL back in the day.
Oh yeah, a reliable Android Syncthing client would be awesome after the debacle with Syncthing-Fork lately.
Qbittorrent desperately needs an easy eay to chsge font size for us blind motherfuckers.
If you use the web UI, you can adjust the zoom in your browser.
WebUI has had exploits in the past, I wouldn’t use it unless I had to.
WinSCP is a Windows tool I use at work to send files between machines and I wish there was linux version. Programs like Dolphin are similar but I always manage to find something I can do in WinSCP that I can’t do in the linux alternatives
I’m intrigued.
Do you recall something in particular?
FWIW, I usually just connect to a ssh location from within Nautilus.
Have you seen the current version of SSH Pilot? Close enough perhaps?
I’m not sure what WinSCP has what linux SCP hasn’t? I guess WinSCP is a GUI tool?
I do a lot of scp to send files between machines (even mac<->linux).
Filezilla?
It’s a GUI tool that lets you see both filesystem side by side and drag and drop items to transfer them
Can’t you already do that from Nautilus with bookmarked sftp locations?
I’m not commenting to discourage other tools from being made, just curious if there’s some aspect of that process that isn’t already easy to accomplish on Linux with existing GUI tools, or if you’d like to be able to do it differently is all.
FAR manager (clone of Norton Commander) might be worth giving a look. Not a GUI, though, it’s TUI but responds to mouse.
On Debian,
sudo apt install far2land then runfar2l.BTW, to add ssh-agent authenticated scp connection, press F11, go to NetRocks and create connection. in the dialog you’ll need to select the protocol to
scpand then auth method in “protocol options”. you can edit an existing connection by going back to the connection “directory” and using F4 on the connection. Once you connect you can copy/move files back and forth.Along with scp it supports eg. smb, nfs and davs.
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.
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.
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.
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
Graphite is getting there
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.
Krita, after som tinkering, has replaced it for me, but I’m not a Photoshop power user either.
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.
They don’t have to be graphical but there are some things I can think of that I’d really like to have or see improved.
Some form of an app that will allow me to get the most out of Flathub. I know that I wont use every app that exists on Flathub but I would like to have some app that will allow me to at least see every app that’s available. I don’t care if it’s something as simple as just a list of every app in the order they were added, preferably sorted/sortable by oldest first and multiple pages to make it easier to find where I left off, or if it’s something more intricate, like a full app store experience with an app recommendation system that filters out apps I’ve already interacted with.
Something will allow me to get better use out of GameFAQs, I was thinking about something similar to Anime Plus but for GameFAQs. If you’re not familiar with Anime Plus, it’s a companion app for My Anime List that creates a temporary profile based on your MAL account and gives you a list of anime/manga that are missing from your account and gives recommendations for new anime/manga. If that’s not possible, similar to Flathub, I don’t care what is made for it. Right now, I’ve been using documents to keep track of everything but I noticed that this isn’t reliable because there is no way to be notified of when new games are added since games are only sorted alphabetically.
I feel like there are more things but I can’t think of anything else right now.
Some form of an app that will allow me to get the most out of Flathub. I know that I wont use every app that exists on Flathub but I would like to have some app that will allow me to at least see every app that’s available. I don’t care if it’s something as simple as just a list of every app in the order they were added, preferably sorted/sortable by oldest first and multiple pages to make it easier to find where I left off, or if it’s something more intricate, like a full app store experience with an app recommendation system that filters out apps I’ve already interacted with.
Have you looked at Bazaar? I don’t think it does everything you listed, but maybe some of it?
Actually yes, I have it installed already. It unfortunately doesn’t do what I’d need it to. For example, if you go to the games category in Bazaar, it’ll say that there is 701 apps but it only shows 96. But now, if you go to the Flathub website, it’ll also say that there is 701 apps but there are 24 pages with 30 apps each.
Also, if you are wondering why I’m not just using the website, I’ve mentioned it in the past but I forgot to add to my previous comment. Basically, the issue is that I’d have to go though every page manually and keep a spreadsheet of every app I’ve checked because the order that the apps are listed in changes occasionally.
For example, if you go to the games category in Bazaar, it’ll say that there is 701 apps but it only shows 96. But now, if you go to the Flathub website, it’ll also say that there is 701 apps but there are 24 pages with 30 apps each.
Oh, wow, I didn’t realize that it did this, but I’ve barely used it yet. Yeah, that’s not good.
Edit: it seems that the most efficient approach would be to fix the Bazaar app or any other apps that show the Flathub catalog instead of writing something completely new.
I mean yeah but after using Bazaar a little more, I realized that it would still have the same issue that I’m having with the website. If there are other apps that show Flathub’s catalog, I’d be interested in trying them but I never found any others last time I looked. As I’ve stated before, I don’t care too much about how it works, I just need to be able to reliably see every app that’s available. At the bare minimum, I’d except something similar to how Droid-ify works for F-droid (a third party app store for android), where I can set it to sort the apps by newest first and then scroll down to the last app I’ve seen and work my way up. It’s tedious but it works.
Got it, I just haven’t looked at any of them closely enough to give an informed opinion on this. Both Gnome and KDE (and PopOS?) have their own software store apps that let you browse flathub apps with different features, but I haven’t noticed if they do what you’re looking for. What you’re asking for seems reasonable and useful though. I hope you find something that works.
Streamlined VM deployment inside a headless server. Been scratching my head for 2 days now on getting a Debian VM to work as advertised. Every step of the way I keep thinking “surely it doesn’t have to be this difficult, right?” And for some reason, a basic netplan edit to make a bridge broke all my NFS binds. Took all day to sort a brand new permissions issue that shouldn’t be possible
I don’t have any experience with any of this, but have you looked at Cockpit? It can manage VMs not only locally but also remotely, I believe.
Yeah, I got it set up through Cockpit actually
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
SSH connection/session manager for people who need to keep lots of open connections to different remote devices, like Xshell for Windows. There are options for Linux that come close in functionality but most seem to miss one desired feature like vertical tabs, grouping connections with a one-shot open of all in a group, saving/restoring sessions which keeps all tabs in the same order, sending keystrokes to all tabs in a window, or split panes.
Tabby is the closest I’ve found so far and is pretty nice overall, but it’s missing some functionality and isn’t the snappiest being an Electron app.
I’d be happy to see one more email client option. Using Geary now - nice ui but very limited in features. Been through quite a few in the past.
A universal uninstaller.
Now that Ubuntu has apt, snap, ~/bin, flatpak, appimages, etc, when I want to disable, update, or, uninstall an app, I can’t quickly figure out where it is or how to do that. So a program that starts with ‘which appname’ or something more clever to find it, which also told you what type of installation method it was and then let you remove it with the next action.
For example I had Desktop Docker installed which was garbage, and I didn’t remember how I had installed it. In that case you couldn’t use ‘which’ because that’s not the name of the executable, so you’d have to design something smarter that could search .desktop files or whatever.
Good luck with your project!
The GNOME & KDE Platform have a software store with an “uninstall” button?
What platform are you using with Ubuntu?
That works for things that are installed via the app store, but I install things from other sources as well.
I don’t know what you mean by platforms, but if the software I want is not in the app store, I usually go to their website and see how the developers recommend installing it.
Sometimes I download an appimage. Sometimes I download a .deb. Sometimes the developer wants me to wget directly into sudo (yuck) sometimes I have to clone a github repo, rarely these days do I have to download a source tarball and make compile, but maybe I get some old software that works that way.
Sometimes it is confusing because the software I installed (e.g. Steam) has the preferred way from the website different from the version in the app store (Steam-launcher or whatever). The problem is I don’t remember which method I used to install what.
In my imagination, I open the universal uninstaller, and start typing the app. As I type it shows suggestions. If I select it, it tells me how I installed it (downloaded a deb from their website, etc.,) then the next click takes me to the correct uninstall method.
Pretty sure you can just delete appimages
I wish Stonesense was better and more stable. Im just glad it is still maintained though.
(a tool to view dwarffortress’s forts)
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 -las most CLI commands do support a filename as input.This is the KDE take on yad/zenity, no?
Looks like, I’m not familiar enough to spot obvious differences.
A comicbook viewer that is lightweight and supports .cbt well, without slowing to a crawl depspite it being a simple tar.
Btw, why is the nonsensical format .cbz (zipping already compressed images) the default?
Okular? Iirc it opens cbt and the likes fine.
Lightweight much?
All things must become electron do not resist
