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…
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
a 🔥blazingly fast🔥 voxel based open world RPG with soulslike and medroidvania elements
Or maybe a 100% science-based dragon MMO?
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.
Obsidian 1:1 open source alternative.
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.
Not the programming language, datalog here is referring to highly interlinked knowledge base,
canvas is logseq whiteboard version of Obsidian, like for mind map or creating data flow/logic diagrams.
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."
A Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Powertoys. Having all those utility features in one app would be great.
Could be a decent idea
Maybe meta, but a linux installer for windows that works just like a normal installer on windows. You download the
.exe, double click it, it opens a wizard you can walk though, and by the end of the process, after it reboots, you’re in a linux distro.You know what, it could also be for linux, when I think about it… not everybody wants to write on a flash drive, reboot, run through installation, reboot.
The original idea is that non-technical users don’t know what an “OS” is. They might search for “windows alternative”, “windows replacement”, “linux installer” (if they heard of linux), and so on without knowing it’s an OS. If they could download something that installed “the linux app” without having to know about partitions, flashing a USB stick, MBR vs UEFI, distros, etc. it could make things much much easier.
- distro: which flavor of linux would you like (as stable as possible)? gaming (bazzite), productivity (ubuntu), bleeding edge (debian sid?), design, development, expert, security, …
- desktop environment: look and feel? more like MacOS (gnome), more like windows 7,8,10 (KDE), more like XP (LXDE, LXQt), Windows 98 feel (XfCE, …)
- probably other things, but maybe that’s all non-techies care about
The installer could have warnings for configurations e.g “you have an NVIDIA card $model, this has known issues with your display manager (Wayland), would you like to select automatic fix?”.
A music player for Jellyfin (that support SyncPlay)
doesn’t that exist already? I could swear I saw at least 2 on flathub
How about a Lemmy Client?
Fragmentation has entered the chat
I simply would like to have a non-browser based Lemmy Client. :/
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?
