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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They don't actually break for the most part, the extension usually needs to be updated to say gnome 49 instead of 48, or you select ignore version on the extension site

They haven't caused major changes that actually make them break in a while.

In case they do make major changes, it makes sense to not ignore version on default especially since that also effects older addons.

Also say an addon still works but gets abandoned, if they can't bother to update just the version, it's for the best that someone else comes along and takes over seeign that no one is working on that extension anymore, if it just kept working without someone bothering to even update the version? eventually when Gnome did get a major change, it would have no one working on it. So I think it kinda helps keeps extensions developed even if they technically work with a version change.