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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.

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[–] mixx941@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 3 points 2 months ago

Pebble app. There's Rockwork, but outside of Ubuntu Touch it will only produce empty notifications. There's Rockpool, that's only for SailfishOS. There's Amazfish, but so far it can only pair and then... nothing.

[–] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I wish there was any alternative to after effects. It's what keeps me in the adobe system. It's so good and there's actually nothing comparable out there.

I also havent enjoyed any open source video editing software either. A lot of them don't have the specs for bigger more rhobust projects

[–] Drito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

There is not much choice for drawing diagrams, dia is old school and draw.io is big.

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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

Wine: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-scapple-for-windows-activation-under-wine/47254/5

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

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

A part of the desktop GUI that opens git forge stuff for installed apps. Like I want to just right click "submit code issue" for an app and have it open a proper templates issue for that given project. Right click and select "see source code" and it pops open my ide of choice. Add some integrations for building and installing forks and branches so I can test my changes in real time.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Streamlined VM deployment inside a headless server. Been scratching my head for 2 days now on getting a Debian VM to work as advertised. Every step of the way I keep thinking "surely it doesn't have to be this difficult, right?" And for some reason, a basic netplan edit to make a bridge broke all my NFS binds. Took all day to sort a brand new permissions issue that shouldn't be possible

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