Whoa, yeah, F-Droid is perhaps the biggest FOSS Android app market, an alternative to the Play Store. I suggest navigating through it using Droid-ify. Enable visibility of all repositories in the top-right corner to be able to see more apps. Even Bitwarden has an official presence in F-Droid to accommodate Play Store avoiders, etc.

If you’re an Android user: scroll through F-Droid, download interesting apps, and then hunt for problems or try to come up with interesting, helpful features. For example, I could really use a live stopwatch widget in: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock/

Or to be specific as of late, “MuseScore Studio.” There have been… a lot of company changes over the past 2 years…

Wow, fascinating!!! I don’t know how I couldn’t find any tool like this! Thanks, this may be a game changer!

AutoHotkey, it’s navigation through programs by hotkey-invoked series of smart, self-changing mouse clicks and keystrokes, though it can also do math and launch programs or put the focus on windows in specific ways. For example, I have a dynamic, template-based, weekly, ~60-slide PowerPoint builder whose clicks and keystrokes change across the screen depending on what the content is. One AHK GUI I built lets you specify how to proceed using a base template I made + a spreadsheet with data from week to week.

I also have a URL-cleaning script that deletes all my known trackers when pasting, does URL-decoding, etc. AHK can even check for images on screen and click them or wait to proceed (like wait for the browser to finish loading before taking action, etc.). I’ve got a bunch of various scripts and have not found any cross-platform tool as remotely as easy + capable.

However, thanks to your post and another Lemmy denizen, I now know of SikuliX! I’ll check that out…

I’ve been wanting to try to leave Windows for Linux, but I just can’t find a replacement for AutoHotkey that can do everything that it can. It would have to be some kind of weird combination of various Python libraries, AutoKey, and Espanso, and even then it’s either not as easy or downright convoluted at best.

I also can’t find any FOSS image editor that can do this.

Android is open-source, I thought.

“If they knew better, they’d do better.”

That makes sense. The extent of my desktop-publishing work has typically involved bifold programs, so I use LibreOffice Writer’s “brochure”-printing mode (which automatically sets every 4 pages as double-sided quarters of 1 sheet) because I can’t stand how bad element selection in MS Publisher is. I’ve never used InDesign and want to avoid Adobe as much as possible since my org is already neck-deep in Microsoft’s subscriptions as it is.

Don’t get me wrong; Scribus can clearly make a lot of beautiful stuff. I just can’t even start to figure it out; I gotta find video tutorials or something.

Thanks, I had tried Scribus for something unrelated to this, but found it to be horribly counterintuitive in terms of how to even get started. I think it had a major update somewhat recently so I suppose I could retry it…

I was just thinking of exploring that, yeah! Thanks for the nudge. “Parasites” is certainly an interesting word to appear on that webpage…

Fine, I edited it into the post. Still, OCR fails miserably at sheet music in my experience. These files are a mix of people scanning papers and PDFs coming directly from file-download websites. I can’t have a single mistake from an OCR converter in my line of work.

Oh, man, a paid subscription? I’d rather stick with Windows, in that case… Thanks for sharing, though.

True! I wonder which are really active nowadays (for the greatest chance of it getting implemented)…

These are all PNGs, though! To be specific, I work regularly with sheet music (especially sheet music with no source files, so it’s PDFs that I adjust into PNGs and manipulate from there: mostly deletion of unwanted staves and whitespace).

Why they would intentionally use that music is beyond me!