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.
A nice editor for both Markdown and reStructuredText with minimal dependencies, which allows to change seamlessly editing between rendered text and source text. Like one has a tab for source text, and one for rendered text, and can change and edit both tabs.
Gollum wiki has something similar but it could be better. Maybe even having two panes side-by-side, left source, right rendering, and one can edit both and / or flip them.
Also, I think one could find a ton of small useful improvements in Zim Wiki. I use it all the time to gather and structure information on poorly documented stuff, which is very often needed when working with legacy software, and it is great and extremely useful but not perfect.
Markdown is so crazy that it is supported everywhere on the Web yet there are no good desktop apps to do what you describe.
I use one from the snap store that let’s you go back and forth like you describe, but to change the font or print you have to expoet to a different format…
I forget what it is called but it is a gnome app.