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.
I kinda want an lcars interface for my phone, but I’m too lazy to configure it
I wish there was a graphical or CLI option to add a Linux drive to etc/fstab.
gnome-disk-utility can. And PySDM.
Ah, I’m on KDE though.
Doesn’t stop you from running a GTK app.
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?
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.
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.
Problem is that I don’t know the format and I couldn’t find any documentation on the matter.
You can’t exactly type “man nano /etc/fstab” into the console.
Man fstab will work though I think
- 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.
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
- Bulk unarchiver or a frontend for ffmpeg (using existing tools, both get very messy when special characters or multiple directories are involved)
Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/
Pursuing feature parity with Calibre would be a long journey, but we have to start somewhere
What features does the Windows version of Calibre have that the Linux version not have?
Begging the question?
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.
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.
I’m not debating with you. I was trying to understand your post.
Do you understand now?
I’ve moved on emotionally.
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.
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”.
A GUI for Mozilla SOPS to use it as a password manager.
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Vorta. Qt based front end for BorgBackup.
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.
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.
I think I’d shoot for something like this for maybe a project 2 or so. I’ve messed a bit with cpal already because I wanted to mess around with doing some basic dsp stuff so I’d love to do a full easy effects replacement with this included. Or alternatively include something basic in the settings project I mentioned a bit higher up
Happy to test if you do.
There’s a few GUIs, none of them very good: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#GUI
The one thing I desperately want for Linux is BetterTouchTool. That one piece of software alone plugs SO MANY gaps in how to navigate macOS, but Linux has nothing like it. Not that I’ve yet found, anyway.
After Dark Totally Twisted - The Grossest, Goriest, & Weirdest Screen Savers from Berkeley Systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0dD_TACPx0
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
Edit: commenters just pointed out a bunch of potential solutions I wasn’t even aware of, so I’m probably just dumb please carry on
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).
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.
Filezilla?
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?
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.
Three finger drag in Wayland, a new gui for opensnitch where i can isolate network activity by app like little snitch
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.
I wish Divvy/WinDivvy worked on Linux. There are similar alternatives, but none that duplicate the functionality.
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.
Krita, after som tinkering, has replaced it for me, but I’m not a Photoshop power user either.
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.
Absolutely
