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Naming was the hardest part (lemmy.kde.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Scratchmark released!

Hi, about half a year ago I made a post asking for a little help with my Markdown editor. In case anyone got interested back then, I'm happy say that after a lot of work, it's finally published.

There's still a lot to do, like image support and Markdown extensions (did you know that for example strikethrough and ^superscript^ aren't part of the core spec), but the fundamentals are at a level that I feel is acceptable to put out there.

Thanks for everyone in at the original thread. Despite GTK sometimes making me want to do violence, naming was indeed the hardest part.

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[–] 11 points 9 months ago

To the name to the app to the logo, it's just perfection

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    [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    you did well with the 'hardest part'. good name.

    those 'extensions' to the spec with the extra formatting are pretty much a must-have feature.

    gonna give it a spin when i get back to the office.

    love the placeholder on your domain (yea, i looked there too).

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    [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    You did it, gg

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    good work.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It's intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD.

    What does it want to or already do different or better than ThiefMD?

    I see the release has a flatpak. A Windows binary or installer would be great too, attached to the release, so it doesn't require cargo toolchain and build to use.

    Wait. Does it even support Windows? I guess not? I read Rust and GTK and assumed it would.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I tried to contribute to ThiefMD last year, but then realized the author had disappeared and maintenance had stopped. The author's been gone for more than two years now, so I think it's reasonable to call the project dead. I checked the date and it seems that my open pull request celebrates its first birthday this friday.

    I originally tried to fork it and port it to GTK4, but most of the functionality relied on removed GTK3 stuff and the programming language itself is dead too - I had to compile Vala language server from source because the link to the debian repo was dead 6 months ago (and apparently still is!)

    Flathub was the first goal. It should be relatively easy to do Windows as well. I do need to make sure the code works on Windows, as there might be a few surprises, like forward slashes in paths. E: It was a good question, added a section about this to the readme.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Oh yeah. I remember this. Good name. Will check this out.

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