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What’s a graphical piece of software you wish existed or was better? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by 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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[–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A standalone utility for decoding QR codes that will work on a desktop. All I want is to be able to put a picture of the code in and get whatever text it was concealing in a little text box where I can read it, and C&P it if it's useful to do so. If something like this exists, I've never been able to find it, although there are seemingly dozens of programs for generating QR codes.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I wrote a little script a while back that would save a temp file with fswebcam, run zbarimg on it to decode the qr, delete the temp file and if it worked it would pipe the output into xclip/wl-copy, otherwise it would try again (up to 8 times).

    I hooked it up to a keyboard shortcut and I'll see the webcam light flash one or two times when I hit it, then know it's good.

    It wouldn't be a ton of work to also have a popup with the qr value using zenity or something, maybe use the --question and pass it "copy $output to clipboard?". You could have an --error if all the scan attempts failed.

    Feel free to shoot me a pm if you want help.

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