Taking your ideas for my next linux app

Andromxda, 15 days ago

Maybe a Linux-native Lemmy app? Or a client for Mastodon? Pixelfed, PeerTube?

Or a GUI for the Rust-based rescrobbled project?

LovePoson, 15 days ago

I second this. The only lemmy client that exists worked quite badly for me

yuri, 15 days ago

Would it be possible to clone the snipping tool from windows?

doggle, 15 days ago

Flameshot pretty much already does this, though perhaps not as elegantly

qwerty, 15 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

A gui app that lets you:

• symmetrically encrypt and decrypt text and files with AES-256 and without any weird formating that would make it incompatible with openssl.
• generate (without writing to file) RSA-(2048-4096) keys and asymmetrically encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify text and files.

It should be simple without any advanced options or storing any data or credentials or saving anything without asking the user. For example;

For symmetric text:

• 3 text boxes, 1 for input, 1 for output, 1 for password, encrypt/decrypt radio, 1 button.

For symmetric file:

• file picker, 1 password text box, encrypt/decrypt radio, 1 button

For asymmetric generation:

• 2 text boxes, 1 for priv key, 1 for pub key, 1 button.

For asymmetric text:

• 3 text boxes, 1 for input, 1 for output, 1 for priv/pub key, encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify radio, 1 button

For asymmetric file:

• file picker, 1 priv/pub key text box, encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify radio, 1 button

velvetThunder, 15 days ago

This sounds like something a LLM could do. Have you tried it? It could get pretty close.

GustavoM, 16 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

A “stupidly minimal” cli package that monitors power usage in real time. Bonus points if it is written in C++, with zero dependencies.

Fredol, 15 days ago

doesn’t powertop already do this?

GustavoM, 11 days ago

Not really – it has way too many “bells and whistles” to be called as “stupidly minimal”. Then again, what I had in mind was something more straightforward with nothing else than “Current power draw: (number goes here)W. Updates every 3 seconds.”

MutterMitAtomherz, 16 days ago

How about a Linux (or even multi platform) version of Stereoscopic Player?

spsf64, 16 days ago

GUI app to create/edit/config Samba shares.

xapr, 12 days ago

Good idea, after having just spent quite a while setting mine and troubleshooting them (first time samba user).

I haven’t used the tool below, but I’ve seen it be recommended. Might it be kind of what you’re looking for?

github.com/45Drives/cockpit-file-sharing

bou, 16 days ago

@Fredol a simple, clean-looking GTK4 client for Syncthing.

GravitySpoiled, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Afaik, there is no app to very easily generate GIFs.

• select images
• select duration
• select quality / size
• generate gif (avif?)

plus:

• optimized for smartphones

There is switcheroo which makes image conversion easily. It converts to gif as well but only 1 image to 1 gif, not 2 images to 1 gif.

It should be straight forward since image magick contains all neccessary commands for gif creation

DeprecatedCompatV2, 16 days ago

Frontend for AOL that looks like regular desktop AOL but without all the ads and popups. If only because it’s something I doubt anyone would make before the EOL of Windows 10.

warmaster, 16 days ago

Do you know what really doesn’t exist?

A pure, HTML only, WYSIWYG text editor. Every text editor out there is either XML, JSON or Markdown based. HTML is the most widely adopted standard ever and is the best for storing content long term. People could write CSS themes, you could even add paged media support.

kuneho, 16 days ago

NVU, Dreamweaver were tried to be like this. Only thing that wysiwyg’ing HTML isn’t that easy as one might think, especially nowadays where thousands of web css frameworks exists and every structuring is done via divs.

You could make your own framework, or select/import one you like, but then the app will have way too much parameter, which needs to be configured by the user. It would be a really neat power tool, though.

ps.: Funny thing I was just thinking about wysiwyg editors in the recent days 😅

warmaster, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Nono. It’s just a Writer. Like, Word, or Google Docs. It’s easy to do. Like all those Markdown editors, but HTML. For notes, book writing, etc.

bigfoot, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

I would love a radarr/sonarr style app but for YouTube with sponsorblock built in.

edit: sorry I missed where you said desktop app

Cris_Color, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

A gtk app for YouTube and/or twitch intended for media PCs would be neat, with controller/remote support and ui optimization for air mice.

I don’t like the ux of kodi very much and trying to get it to play YouTube has been a nightmare 😅 a simple app with a decent user interface would be very welcome

jman6495, 16 days ago

A modern UI for ClamAV or a Subsonic Music Streaming client (In gtk4)

alexdeathway, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Obsidian 1:1 open source alternative.

doggle, 15 days ago

I would kill for this. Trying to get logseq, or any other markdown editor to play nice with an existing obsidian vault is a nightmare. And none of them are nearly as feature complete or expandable.

alexdeathway, 15 days ago

unrestrictive nature of Obsidian is simply top notch.

lord_ryvan, 4 days ago

Is this sarcasm, or did you not understand their comment?

KISSmyOSFeddit, 16 days ago

A text web browser that actually lets you log in to websites.

rmicielski, 16 days ago

You mean a web browser in a terminal?

KISSmyOSFeddit, 16 days ago

or a TTY. One that doesn’t need X or Wayland.

FigMcLargeHuge, 15 days ago

There used to be lynx. Oh look, it’s still being maintained. Not sure how well it works though, might have to try it out:

lynx.invisible-island.net/release/

KISSmyOSFeddit, 15 days ago

I tried lynx, links, links2, elinks and w3m. None of them let me log into any website.

I also tried browsh and carbonyl which theoretically support everything Firefox and Chromium can do, respectively.
But they don’t receive signals from gpm and don’t offer keyboard navigation so I can’t click on any links in a TTY.

rmicielski, 16 days ago

Something like Browsh? It still uses firefox underneath the hood though

KISSmyOSFeddit, 16 days ago

I tried that. Websites are completely unreadable in a TTY, because it tries to render an image using ASCII.
And when I run it in Wayland, it’s just a lower resolution Firefox frontend.