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📣 raghav_nautiyal

What (realistic) software tool do you need that doesn't exist


What (realistic) software tool do you need that doesn't exist


  👤 BitwiseFool Accepted Answer ✓
I would love a copy/paste stack utility. The ability to copy multiple selections and then paste them in order. For instance you could press ctrl+c five times in your source and then switch windows to the destination and then presss ctrl+v five times to get everything copied and then pasted in one go. Maybe allow toggling between FIFO and LIFO. I know MS Office has a clipboard utility that keeps a history but as far as I know it doesn't do a stack paste and it doesn't exist outside of the Office suite.

I think you'll find this would save a ton of time in office jobs that require a lot of excel work.


👤 kleer001
Open Frequent Files (in addition to Open Recent Files). Seems easy enough to me.

GUI file browsing details that influence the width of their column. Too often I find long names truncated and have to adjust the width myself when there's obviously lots of white space in other columns. Maybe a bit too OS for your question.


👤 pickle-wizard
I've been looking for an open source alternative to VMware vRealize Automation and Cisco Prime Service Catalog. I use Stackstorm and Terraform for the orchestration on the backend. What I need is a front end to put in from them so users can order my services.

I've had a couple of failed attempts at creating one myself. What I keep getting hung up on is that I don't know front end programming. I've tried working on it in the evenings and get frustrated with the front end development.

I've thought about founding a company to work on it and hire some contractors to do the front end work, but I'm not really interested in running a company.


👤 simplecto
I want universal copy-paste like Apple has between devices. It would be great to have that between my Macbook and my Windows machine that I use for video calls/streaming.

👤 happyrock
Open-source device management/administration system like JAMF