I’m bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.

  • @[email protected]M
    19•7 months ago

    I’d like to see a simple, dependency-free, calculator app, written in Rust, using egui. All other GUI calculator apps I’ve seen so far are unnecessarily heavy, using bloated toolkits like GTK or Qt.

    This would be handy for those run a GTK/Qt-free environment, and/or those who just want a tiny calculator app (optimised for the smallest binary size) without any external dependencies. Preferably even compiled using musl, to remove any glibc dependencies - resulting in a simple, small, portable binary that can run on any distro and doesn’t even need to be installed.

    Eventually, I would like to see this idea expanded to other apps - such as a simple text editor, a simple image editor, and maybe even a simple and lightweight web browser using Servo.

    • @[email protected]
      3•7 months ago

      Jesus Christ.

      I use the calculator in Ubuntu tor very simple purposes. It was crashing on me every time I opened it.

      I tracked down why.

      It was trying to get a foreign currency exchange rate file - which I was horrified that you’d think about even having in a calculator.

      The reason that was failing? Because I had a VPN enabled.

      And it wouldn’t even fail gracefully. Nope it would poof, disappear.

      The fix is to disable vpn, and disable foreign currency in the preferences.

      I was so pissed off. And on the next upgrade the same thing happened, which I’d forgotten all about, so went through it AGAIN!

      • @[email protected]M
        2•7 months ago

        This was in fact what prompted my search - the Gnome calculator is so horribly bloated, and yeah, it should have no business making network connections, at least not by default - this should be an opt-in behaviour.

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      Not to tell you you don’t need a GUI calculator program, but the only times I needed one was on screen sharing when I had to show someone else what I’m doing.

      For all other cases, python in console is the best calculator ever. You don’t need to learn Python to use it, and it’s most likely already installed in most systems that you use.