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.

  • 2910000@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    How about a utility for generating and/or handling QR codes?

    EDIT: as there are tools to generate QR codes, how about a tool to handle them? Scan and present the option to open any associated links/display data

    • northernlights@lemmy.today
      2·
      21 hours ago

      I use qtqr for this, few dependencies.

      Version         : 2.1-9
Description     : Qt GUI that makes easy creating and decoding QR codes
Architecture    : any
URL             : https://launchpad.net/qr-tools
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : python-pillow  python-pyqt5  qrencode  qt5-multimedia  zbar
      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
        3·
        1 day ago
        qrgen() {
    ##: generate and display qr-code in one step
    qr_file="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/"qr.$$.svg"
    qrencode -l "${2:-H}" -t SVG -o "$qr_file" "$1"
    display "$qr_file"
    rm "$qr_file"
}

        Requires qrencode. Replace magick display with your image viewer of choice if you want.