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What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better?

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What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better? - Lemmy.World

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?

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 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).

Snot Flickerman Dec 9

Have you seen the current version of SSH Pilot? Close enough perhaps?

SolarPunker Dec 9

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

Snot Flickerman Dec 9

Qbittorrent desperately needs an easy way to change font size for us blind motherfuckers.

If you use the web UI, you can adjust the zoom in your browser.

Snot Flickerman Dec 10

WebUI has had exploits in the past, I wouldn’t use it unless I had to.

Valentine Angell Dec 10

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.

rhabarba Dec 10

Graphite is getting there

onlooker Dec 10

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.

RightEdofer Dec 10

Some QT or Cosmic takes on Pika Backup. The maybe unrealistic dream would be some new non gtk photo dam that ignores editing all together and hands off files as needed to an editor like vkdt. Kinda like Adobe Bridge.

Captain Aggravated Dec 11

Vorta. Qt based front end for BorgBackup.

obsoleteacct Dec 10

I would love a good WYIWYG desktop screenwriting software.

Writing fountain markup just doesn’t work for me. it’s hard to explain, and sounds precious, but if my brain is in markup mode it’s not in creative mode and vice versa.

Some of the ok ones from the past have been abandoned.

I bought a pro license of fade in which is supposed to be available for Linux but it won’t install and support didn’t solve it. So I have to work exclusively from my Windows machine… Which I don’t love doing.

Linux is still a difficult environment for creative work.

Random Dent Dec 10

My somewhat convoluted solution is using Scrivener 3 in Wine. Takes a bit of setting up but works really well for me now. Also it’s not a dedicated screenwriting software (it’s designed for novels I think) but it has a screenwriting mode which does everything I need it to.

obsoleteacct Dec 11

That’s a great suggestion. I’ll check it out. Thanks.

Random Dent Dec 11

No worries! If you do decide to go that way, these are the guides that got it working for me:

Wine: forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/…/5

Bottles: joe8bit.com/blog/running-scrivener-on-linux

Scrivener/Scapple for Windows Activation under Wine

Excellent. Thank you. Worked for me on Manjaro with the appropriate pacman commands.

Literature & Latte Forums

A standalone utility for decoding QR codes that will work on a desktop. All I want is to be able to put a picture of the code in and get whatever text it was concealing in a little text box where I can read it, and C&P it if it’s useful to do so. If something like this exists, I’ve never been able to find it, although there are seemingly dozens of programs for generating QR codes.

Ya know I tried for years to make QR codes a thing. Now they’re a thing but everyone uses them wrong and it drives me absolutely nuts.

richieadler Dec 11

What qualifies as “using them wrong”?

Anytime they’re not printed. If it’s not printed, use a link. It makes no sense. I cannot scan a QR code on my phone with my phone.

Random Dent Dec 10

I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.

Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.

FoundFootFootage78 Dec 11

I wish there was a graphical or CLI option to add a Linux drive to etc/fstab.

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?

FoundFootFootage78 Dec 12

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.

FoundFootFootage78 Dec 13

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

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!

Clocks [They/Them]Dec 11

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

UltraGiGaGigantic Dec 11

I wish Stonesense was better and more stable. Im just glad it is still maintained though.

(a tool to view dwarffortress’s forts)