I’m bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    672·
    6 months ago

    An app that tracks how much time you spend using each app. Locally obviously. I want this information so I can see how much I should donate to each project each quarter.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      213·
      6 months ago

      This. This is a hole in the market I think.

      Windows used to have a similar hidden feature that my friend used all the time to tracking his work projects, but they removed it some time ago.

      This is a good idea. It could even be later expanded to a sort of “digital wellbeing” type use case with time limits or reminders on certain apps, etc…

    • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      This is a very interesting concept, and I would also like it. Would this even be possible on Wayland though? I know it should be possible on X11, but I’m unsure if the Wayland isolation would entirely prevent a usage tracking program like this from seeing what the focused window is, or seeing the total time a process has spent in the background (depending on what type of usage is being tracked).

    • pyt0xic@lemmy.worldAfrikaans
      41·
      6 months ago

      I’m attempting to implement this a Hyprland plugin, I could adapt it to work with all Wayland based compositiors/DE’s fairly easily. It just provides the stats using a CLI command, I’m not a UI dev xD

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
    33·
    6 months ago

    Make an app that is a little ASCII potted plant in your terminal and every time you type something it waters the plant and it grows

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      6 months ago

      When nothing happens for too long, the plant withers and starts losing leaves. For each leaf that falls, a random file is deleted in /sbin.

      • hertg@infosec.pub
        13·
        6 months ago

        This reminds of a stupid filesystem pet idea I had a while ago. Running as a daemon, it walks through your filesystem and sometimes leaves traces (as files), maybe you’ll find it sleeping in your downloads folder every now and then. I thought it was a cute idea, but didnt actually think about implementing it, for obvious reasons, it could go so horribly wrong 😂

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lolEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          I lowkey want this, it’s like the system equivalent of the screen cat (btw does that exist but with Wayland support?)

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
    22·
    6 months ago

    The world needs the ability to sync freetube and newpipe. It’s the missing link for both Apps, to be usable from home, to out and about

    • Fredol@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      6 months ago

      I agree, but I think something is already in the works, I’ll check and probably make something practical to sync the two. It’s not really a new app that’s needed but a feature integrated into freetube/newpipe

    • federico3@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      I would love a text based ActivityPub client focused on meaningful discussions: threaded view, ability to follow threads or branches, highlight posts based on keywords.

          • Vittelius@feddit.de
            2·
            6 months ago

            I’ve just tried building Thunder for desktop and it works fine so far without any tweaks nessesary. In fact I’m writing this comment using this very build.

            If there’s interest I might be looking into turning this into a proper flatpak.

            • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
              1·
              6 months ago

              I’ve seen a few people in this sub asking for a desktop client, so it seems like something (some) people would be interested in. Maybe reach out to the Thunder devs and see if you can become an official flatpak maintainer (assuming you have flatpak experience and know what you’re getting into) if they don’t have time to maintain it themselves. You could also maybe get the “desktop” flag added to Thunder in this list if you were to do that, which would help people find it.

        • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
          12·
          6 months ago

          Fragmentation of front-ends. If every dev works on a their own project, the community gets 0 quality ptoducts. If there are less projects but more devs working on them, the community gets multiple quality products. Now choose what is better

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    267·
    6 months ago

    I’d like to see a simple, dependency-free, calculator app, written in Rust, using egui. All other GUI calculator apps I’ve seen so far are unnecessarily heavy, using bloated toolkits like GTK or Qt.

    This would be handy for those run a GTK/Qt-free environment, and/or those who just want a tiny calculator app (optimised for the smallest binary size) without any external dependencies. Preferably even compiled using musl, to remove any glibc dependencies - resulting in a simple, small, portable binary that can run on any distro and doesn’t even need to be installed.

    Eventually, I would like to see this idea expanded to other apps - such as a simple text editor, a simple image editor, and maybe even a simple and lightweight web browser using Servo.

    • No1@aussie.zone
      3·
      6 months ago

      Jesus Christ.

      I use the calculator in Ubuntu tor very simple purposes. It was crashing on me every time I opened it.

      I tracked down why.

      It was trying to get a foreign currency exchange rate file - which I was horrified that you’d think about even having in a calculator.

      The reason that was failing? Because I had a VPN enabled.

      And it wouldn’t even fail gracefully. Nope it would poof, disappear.

      The fix is to disable vpn, and disable foreign currency in the preferences.

      I was so pissed off. And on the next upgrade the same thing happened, which I’d forgotten all about, so went through it AGAIN!

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
        3·
        6 months ago

        This was in fact what prompted my search - the Gnome calculator is so horribly bloated, and yeah, it should have no business making network connections, at least not by default - this should be an opt-in behaviour.

    • oldfart@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Not to tell you you don’t need a GUI calculator program, but the only times I needed one was on screen sharing when I had to show someone else what I’m doing.

      For all other cases, python in console is the best calculator ever. You don’t need to learn Python to use it, and it’s most likely already installed in most systems that you use.

  • Xy_Lemmy@lemmy.ml
    171·
    6 months ago

    A Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Powertoys. Having all those utility features in one app would be great.

  • shrugal@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 months ago

    An app to manage important config and unit files (fstab, hosts, sysctl, systemd units, …), and present them as settings menu or editor with auto completion and tooltips. Kinda like how VSCode handles settings, where you can use the GUI or a context-aware text editor.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      5·
      6 months ago

      If you move to OpenSUSE/SUSE you have this via GUI GTK Yast apps. pretty much anything you want to adjust (kernel param, samba, add devices, alter services, etc) is available via GUI

      • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
        2·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, but how about Yast for all??? How about taking what Yast does, and replicating it for Debian-based or Fedora- or Arch-based distros? They all use Systemd and they are all pretty similar in everything, except the package manager, package availability, and release cycles.

        • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          6 months ago

          Don’t think it would be that easy. What Yast does is creating a middle layer between the actual config files and the user. You can look at it, most (if not all) of it is stored in /etc/sysconfig. Yast generates the actual config files out of what is stored there. This can be a headache because editing the config files directly will sometimes lead to them just being overwritten bei Yast again.
          This is probably the reason why other distros don’t even want to adopt Yast, it would have to fundamentally change how it interacts with the config files.
          And the cool new thing is Cockpit anyway, even though it can do only a fraction of what Yast can last time I checked…

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
          1·
          6 months ago

          I wish it was more widespread. I have a debian server, and a NixOS machine besides my OpenSUSE machine. I miss YAST2, it makes everything so easy

      • Krafting@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Only for movies, not for Audio only, and they mostly don’t support Sync Play (except for the official Client)

        But if I missed one feel free to send me the links!

        (I know that Finamp are working on a Desktop version though, but not out now and don’t support SyncPlay)

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    Implement a wireless file transfer protocol that works with Apple’s Airdrop and Android’s Quick Share.

    In other words Airdrop for Linux that works with both iOS and Android.

    1. Create a software tool with UI that allows syncing of a phone with Linux to copy over photos, documents, music etc.

    Must work with ios and android

      • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        LocalSend looks great, but I don’t think it captures OP’s intention. It would require someone else to download the app if they wanted to receive a file, but OP is asking for something that uses the already existing Airdrop/Quick Share so that they could send a file to someone without them having to install anything. I’ve had similar wants, as when I’ve wanted to share something with someone in public that I don’t really know, I’ve just had to upload it to send.vis.ee, but that can be quite slow and inefficient. Something leveraging both Airdrop/Quick Share (that doesn’t require you to be connected to the same WiFi network like LocalSend) would be ideal, as those are features included by default on stock iOS and Android (no install required). For instance, there was something similar called WarpShare that allowed you to share something via Airdrop from an Android device to an Apple device (but only in that direction), but its development has stalled and it isn’t capable of using Quick Share for Android devices.

  • GravitySpoiled@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    6 months 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

  • mathieu@lemmy.ml
    10·
    6 months ago

    What about a fully featured PDF tool (page deletion, blank page instertion, OCR, edition, conversion, cropping, reorientation, etc…). This is a very missing feature of the linux world, we always have to jump from one software to another. An alternative would be to build the plugins of Okular to allow to make these operations.

      • mathieu@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        It looks great, but it is far from easy to install… Either you have to compile to use docker! Computer are not made for mathematicians only anymore ; )

        • bravemonkey@lemmy.ca
          1·
          6 months ago

          There’s a docker image already that makes it easy to deploy and use, no compiling required.