Utility software

[sjehuda]

As an attempt to increase the publicity of Nuklear, I advise to create small utility software.

File browser

File browser which appears upon "Saving file as..."

For instance, both of the "standard" file browsers of GTK and QT are inconvenient, GTK being bloated and malfunctioned, and QT being inflexible.

Calendar and clock

A calendar with a map which indicates of timezones, day and night, both as a standard rectangle and navigation (round) map (that of Alexander Gleason).

That would cause to inreased attention to Nuklear.

Software switcher

<ALT> + <TAB>

This might appeal to those who utilize Fluxbox, Openbox, and perhaps also dwb, i3, xmonad and more.

RSS viewer

I have created a Greasemonkey extension to view RSS documents; and

I, then, noticed that these documents, especially The Atom Syndication Format, are even more useful than XHTML; so

I wondered why there is no simple software to open such documents directly from desktop, especially since these do not require the bloated so caled "rendering engines", just an XML parser, and perhaps also an XSLT interpreter.

Note: The Atom Format is also useful to create slideshow presentations.

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/465932-newspaper-syndication-feed-reader

I do consider to port it to Tauri; yet, as the purpose is to not utilize bloated "rendering" software, I am more inclined for implementations that require a fewer set of dependencies.

Email viewer

A software to view EML files and MBOX archives.

Key viewer

A software to view encryption keys.

Adblock

Creating a "standalone" AdBlock software which would utilize Privoxy; and

Perhaps integrating with PeerBlock, or separately porting it to Linux.

https://peerblock.com

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All these are relatively simple software that are useful and helpful.

Creating these software to settle a "gap", so to speak, should contribute to the popularity of this important software, Nuklear.

[sleeptightAnsiC]

I believe, the most advanced software that shows Nuklear in action is this CAD editor:
https://github.com/zecruel/CadZinho
(or at least this was my impression the last time I checked it)
I don't think this counts as "small utility software", but I think it's still a good example.

[sjehuda]

CadZinho is impressive! Thank you for sharing that reference. I think that small software, perhaps an "Internet Radio Player" would be good to create. The past graphical interface of Screamer Radio was lean and small, so that could be an example. https://web.archive.org/web/20050504164813im_/http://www.screamer-radio.com/shots/screen_01.png An imitation of 1by1 of the past. https://web.archive.org/web/20090603091714if_/http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html I think that there are many software of interest could be recreated with Nuklear.