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.

  • Glifted@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    WinSCP is a Windows tool I use at work to send files between machines and I wish there was linux version. Programs like Dolphin are similar but I always manage to find something I can do in WinSCP that I can’t do in the linux alternatives

    Edit: commenters just pointed out a bunch of potential solutions I wasn’t even aware of, so I’m probably just dumb please carry on

    • netvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      FAR manager (clone of Norton Commander) might be worth giving a look. Not a GUI, though, it’s TUI but responds to mouse.

      On Debian, sudo apt install far2l and then run far2l.

      BTW, to add ssh-agent authenticated scp connection, press F11, go to NetRocks and create connection. in the dialog you’ll need to select the protocol to scp and then auth method in “protocol options”. you can edit an existing connection by going back to the connection “directory” and using F4 on the connection. Once you connect you can copy/move files back and forth.

      Along with scp it supports eg. smb, nfs and davs.

    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
      5·
      9 days ago

      I’m not sure what WinSCP has what linux SCP hasn’t? I guess WinSCP is a GUI tool?

      I do a lot of scp to send files between machines (even mac<->linux).

      • SnachBarr@lemmy.zip
        1·
        9 days ago

        It’s a GUI tool that lets you see both filesystem side by side and drag and drop items to transfer them

        • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          Can’t you already do that from Nautilus with bookmarked sftp locations?

          I’m not commenting to discourage other tools from being made, just curious if there’s some aspect of that process that isn’t already easy to accomplish on Linux with existing GUI tools, or if you’d like to be able to do it differently is all.

    • roflo1@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      I’m intrigued.

      Do you recall something in particular?

      FWIW, I usually just connect to a ssh location from within Nautilus.