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  • The MacOS specific ones like zooming out to show all active windows in a workspace, or flipping to the next app aren’t there because, well…that’s MacOS specific.

    All the more universal ones like pinch to zoom, scrolling…etc are all there. I actually used an Apple TouchPad for years just because I had it around. Worked fine.

    You can also run a simple plugin in Gnome to map custom gestures to whatever you want if needed.















  • These types of apps became fairly irrelevant with the advent of Web Fonts and sites that already do all of this.

    There’s Fontbase, Gnome’s Font Manager, KDE’s Font Viewer and FontForge that are still maintained.

    The fact that you’re asking for whatever tool to not use something like QT or GTK is asking for the moon here. These types of applications you describe are generally packaged with a DE for this very use. I don’t think there’s a real use-case for someone to develop this independent of any DE, honestly. That’s what they’re most useful for.




  • I get that you’re aiming this at a user base of new folks and all, but I’m super confused to see Nix on there.

    This is kind of…Nix’s entire identity, no?

    One could also make the argument that this supercedes bootstrap tools that each distro has. Kickstart for example.

    I would maybe focus on making helper scripts that do specific things for groups of users, like installing all the steam-* packages for Steam installs and not just steam itself since this is pretty opinionated on how you’re choosing to install things re: native package manager vs Flatpak and such.