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What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by galaxy_nova@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://github.com/trelby/trelby ?

https://trelby.org/

Found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Documents#Screenwriting

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn't realize it was back in active development. It seemed to be abandonware for years.

That's awesome. I'll have to test drive it. Thanks.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Late reply but I also recommend going through flathub for screenwriting apps if you want more. I saw some options that looked pretty good, although many were proprietary.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks 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

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is screenwriting?

[–] obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Writing screenplays. Movie scripts. At it's most basic, you can write it in any text editor, and you can format it in markup.

But, because the formatting is very specific and there are a lot of ways a screenplay gets analyzed and parsed they're mostly done in a dedicated software. The biggest and most industry standard is called Final Draft.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

That is really cool! Thanks!