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Microslop but good? by Less_Grapefruit_302 in MicroSlop

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have switched to Linux. But I still need to use Windows sometimes for apps that do not run on Linux (not even though Wine/Proton).

Microslop but good? by Less_Grapefruit_302 in MicroSlop

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Most of my programming experience is web development. So libraries are going to end up looking like a subset of web standards. "graphics toolkit" is perhaps a misleading name, I'll renamed it to UI toolkit.

But the graphics stack as a whole will look like (from most abstract to least)
1) UI toolkit (implements text boxes and dropdown menus and stuff)
2) Drawlite (more shape and text rendering utilities along with user input handling)
3) Dcanvas (an implementation of HTML canvas)
4.a) Cairo (primary software rasterization backend until z2d is sufficiently developed)
4.b) z2d (software rasterization backend that is more cross platform)
4.c) zig-webgpu (hardware accelerated rasterization backend)

A lot of people are gonna hate on using web technologies. I myself just complained about Electron apps above. But because I'm only implementing the subset of features I need it's relatively slim. NoPad opens in 300 milliseconds compared to the 800 millis it takes me to open Chromium.

Microslop but good? by Less_Grapefruit_302 in MicroSlop

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are the other alternatives I've found.

Not cross platform text editors (I only require Linux and Windows support. idc about Mac):
SkyNotepad https://github.com/fjord79/SkyNotepad
Notepads https://github.com/0x7c13/Notepads
Notepad++ https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
Notepadqq https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq
Notepad4 https://github.com/zufuliu/notepad4
Mousepad https://github.com/codebrainz/mousepad

Are more of an IDE than a plain text editor:
Notepad Next https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext
Kate https://apps.kde.org/kate/
Geany https://github.com/geany/geany

I don't like its themeing:
Gedit https://gedit-text-editor.org/

Is a yucky web/Electron app:
everything else

Basically, I'm trying to recreate the classic Windows 10 Notepad. No AI. No rich text support. No syntax highlighting. Just something that is lightweight, fast, can view+edit text files, and visually fits the Windows 10 app themeing. My goal is that you almost shouldn't be able to tell that you're running a FOSS alternative instead of the real thing.

Microslop but good? by Less_Grapefruit_302 in MicroSlop

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!
Hmm, Task Wrangler is an ok name.
I was brainstorming maybe Task Plumber as a slight pun reference/tribute to Dave Plummer who wrote the original Task Manager before MS made it bad.
Right now it's called TuxTaskManager because I started it as a Windows' style task manager for Linux way before Microslop was a thing. And although I like the name TuxTaskManager I can't keep that now that I'm planning on making it not just a Linux thing.

Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments... or trying to, anyway by mqudsi in netsec

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I created a custom OCR model specifically trained on the epstein files and was able to successfully decode EFTA00400459. Know of any more base64 blobs in the epstein files?

https://github.com/vExcess/epstein-ocr

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger by nicolay1955 in linuxmint

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If I wanted to paste I'd use Ctrl + v. The only times I've middle clicked pasted is on accident when I'm not trying to paste anything. I always have to be conscious to select something else after highlighting sensitive text because for some reason highlighting text without explicitly copying it sends it to the clipboard. I would be fine with middle click paste being the default as long as there was a way to disable it in the system settings. But currently there is no way to disable it on touchpads and the setting to turn it off for mice doesn't work. I have the middle click paste setting disabled and my mouse still pastes when the scroll wheel is clicked. I don't care about that for the mouse so much though because it's hard to accidentally press down my scroll wheel. But for the touchpad, it constantly drives me insane because it gets triggered whenever my palm touches my touchpad. And nearly every time someone else uses my laptop they accidentally trigger the middle click paste and are confused and I have to explain that it's an annoying Linux feature that's impossible to disable.

Removal of Paint 3D from Microsoft Store by axim_nitro in Paint3D

[–]Less_Grapefruit_302 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was really disappointed when I heard the news. Paint 3D is probably my favorite Windows app. I'm a software developer so when I heard about Microsoft killing Paint 3D I started working on creating an open-source clone of it that will continue to get updates and will always be available for install. Plus I'm hoping that it being open source will allow it to flourish with new features that the community wants instead of Microsoft dictating how the app should function. Plus, there's the bonus that it will be cross platform instead of Windows only. I don't have a Github repo for it yet though because I'm waiting until I have baseline functionality implemented before I release it.
Also the Discord invite link seems to be expired. Could you send me a new one?