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.
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.
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…
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).
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
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
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.
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 😂
a 🔥blazingly fast🔥 voxel based open world RPG with soulslike and medroidvania elements
Or maybe a 100% science-based dragon MMO?
A Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Powertoys. Having all those utility features in one app would be great.
Could be a decent idea
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.
- 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
In other words Airdrop for Linux that works with both iOS and Android.
May I introduce you to LocalSend
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.
1 is great.
for 2: syncthing is exactly this.
I think Syncthing specifically does not work with iOS.
I must try that. Thanks
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
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
Here’s a thread that sort of just… finishes nowhere.
I’ve been following it pretty closely, and haven’t seen any progress as yet. There are many github conversations, but nothing seems to have ever come of it.
I assume the challenge would be having the two different storage formats be able to be interchanged?
How about a Lemmy Client?
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.
Fragmentation has entered the chat
I simply would like to have a non-browser based Lemmy Client. :/
Are there really none for Linux yet?
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.
I stumbled upon two or so, but they were abandoned early on.
how is that fragmentation it’d be a front-end not a whole new software
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
Obsidian clone thats better than logseq
Idea 1
I’ve been looking for a journal/to-do/checklist app that isn’t completely thumb chewing stupid. I’ve yet to find anything as good, flexible and feature complete as what you’d get on PalmOS devices in the early 2000s.
I often use my journal for brainstorming and planning, and basically the best I can do is bulleted lists. I would like a checklist section that can do things like recurring tasks, one-off tasks, daily tasks, and persistent tasks. (Daily tasks: Feed cat. Each day it puts a task with that name in the Tasks window for you to check off. Persistent tasks: Fix the kitchen drawer. This same task remains in the Tasks window until it is checked off, and then stops appearing.) I would also like “take 5 loads of yard debris to the road 0/5” and be able to click to advance it to 1/5. Marry this with a journal app so that you can keep track of progress on stuff like fitness goals or whatever.
And please. Even if it is stored as human-readable markup, please. PLEASE. Let the user edit it in rich text mode. Too many of the “journal” apps out there require you to edit in markdown mode and then you can switch to a “view” mode to see what you’ve done. Also: Don’t be that guy whose app cannot be themed. I don’t want some light mode Gnome lookin’ bullshit in the middle of my dark mode Cinnamon.
Idea 2
Do a fully local fitness tracker. Apple/Google/Samsung health apps are there primarily to invade your privacy and no one should ever use them. I get that this one is more useful as a mobile app running on a device with MEMS sensors, possibly rigged to a smart watch with biometric sensors, and there is no such thing operational in the GNU/Linux world, but still it might get some use.
Idea 3
You asked for it: Woodworking CAD. This “seems quite complex.” The best workflow I can find is in FreeCAD, which is too complex and cumbersome for the job. It’s a general purpose engineering CAD system and it’s designed to work in abstract absolutes; you can’t think in terms of “put a mortise and tenon joint here” you have to think “create a sketch on this face and constrain a rectangle to this edge with these dimensions.” And then it doesn’t give you things like automatic cut schedules, materials lists, templates. FreeCAD is allegedly extensible, it is allegedly possible to create your own workbench to add more specific features. I even tried. There is no documentation, they didn’t write down what they were doing as they were doing it, so…I’m not sure why they bother at this point.
I’ve been interested in a CAD package that works the way a woodworker works. I’ve thought about trying to implement this in the Godot game engine, but even then the project strikes me as “monumental.”
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.
Have you checked out Stirling-PDF?
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.
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
A simple GTK4 + libadwaita sound recorder. I know it’s probably a 1 day task but we seem to lack a good modern recorder for my favourite DE.
P. S. I smell another downvoted to oblivion moment for liking GNOME
I just have a script that wraps pw-record and ffmpeg to transcode to a mp3 file. I’d also like a GUI for it tho
I must admit I do not understand what’s going on in the first sentence but I do agree that having a GUI is good
GNOME is great.
Would you take iced/cosmic or tauri? Or it really has to be a GTK4?
I want it to be a GNOME focused app so it should at least comply with all GNOME Circle rules
Sounds good, I’ll consider it heavily as audio/gtk4 would be interesting
How about a doc editor, not code editor, not m$ word. Just a simple modern doc editor.
We really don’t have a native asciidoc editor, not even one. Unlike other apps which we don’t use it frequently that even electron liked apps’ performance are acceptable, doc editor should be built in native.
We have something like https://www.appflowy.io/ and https://www.getgrist.com/, but none of them are native.
There’s LocalSend that already exists
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.
How are Gtk and Qt bloated?
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,
pythonin 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.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!
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.
Obsidian 1:1 open source alternative.
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.
unrestrictive nature of Obsidian is simply top notch.
Is this sarcasm, or did you not understand their comment?
I was talking about the community extension integration, now about editors, I was easily able to switch between them. The one I was having the most difficulty with was Logseq."
LogSeq doesn’t do it for you?
nope, logseq is good for canvas and new knowledge base, but doesn’t fit for the my existing datalog requirements.
The mention of datalog confuses me. I know it as a programming language. Does it mean something else for you? And what do you mean by “canvas”? I know about painting on a canvas and similar usages as well as the verb “canvassing” for soliciting for votes.
