Recently, I found myself searching for a polished motivational app for Linux, but everything I discovered either required using the terminal or had interfaces that felt outdated. Knowing the wealth of wisdom available in fortune-mod’s databases, I decided to create Fortunate, a modern graphical interface that delivers inspiring quotes throughout your day, while giving me an opportunity to explore GUI development with Fyne.
    • tourist@lemmy.world
      16·
      4 days ago

      A lot of people have trouble getting motivated.

      Your comment made me chuckle a little bit.

      I ask myself that same question every day. What’s the point of anything? Do I really need to get out of bed, get to work, eat food, climb out of the debt trap I’m in or even browse Lemmy?

      Something like this could help ease that daily question from myself. If it doesn’t work, it’s fine. Worth a shot. Free is cheaper than recreational drugs.

    • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      Not everything needs to have a “point”. Sometimes just making things for fun can be enough of a point in itself.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
      20·
      4 days ago

      I know I shouldn’t feed the trolls, but it’s right in the blurb.

      … I decided to create Fortunate, a modern graphical interface that delivers inspiring quotes throughout your day, while giving me an opportunity to explore GUI development with Fyne.

      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        4 days ago

        I’m not trolling. I read it but the example quote seems generic. Honestly wondering what this provides

        • zquestz@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          7·
          4 days ago

          Yeah I intentionally did something a bit more basic for the example. There are over 450 custom fortunes included, about half are actual quotes from famous people in history.

          Not to mention the thousands of existing quotes from classic fortune packs.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    2·
    4 days ago

    I’m trying to delve into building an app myself, but I’m struggling to get started. It’s waaaay more complicated than I thought.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s an onscreen keyboard for plasma on Wayland. C++ and whatever qt framework KDE uses to build their stuff (and I just realized that I didn’t use qml for styling). I need it for my first language since no onscreen keyboard works for me and I don’t have a keyboard with that language. Maliit does work, but it never switches to any other language.