Text Pieces for Linux

Developer's scratchpad

Overview

Text Pieces is a utility tool designed for Linux users who need a versatile text scratchpad.

It works well with the GNOME desktop environment and uses the GTK toolkit, making it a good fit for Linux systems that support these technologies.

This software focuses on helping users handle many different text tasks safely and effectively.

With Text Pieces, you can perform several text transformations.

It allows you to calculate different types of hashes, including MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512.

You can also encode and decode text using Base64, HTML, and URL formats.

The app offers features to escape and unescape strings, remove extra spaces or lines at the end of text, and count the number of lines, words, or symbols in your text.

Another important function is the ability to format complex data.

Text Pieces can prettify JSON and XML files to make them easier to read.

It also supports converting between JSON and YAML formats, which is useful if you work with these data types frequently.

The software is extendable, meaning you can add your own script-based actions to customize how it works.

Although it is currently available only for Linux, its wide range of text tools makes it valuable for users who need a secure, adaptable text utility on this platform.

However, there is no detailed information about the user interface or ease of use, so it may require some technical knowledge to use effectively.

Also, Text Pieces does not have multiple specified categories, which might make it harder for some users to find in software listings.

Pros

  • Supports a wide range of text transformations including hashing, encoding, and decoding.
  • Can format JSON and XML and convert between JSON and YAML.
  • Extendable with custom script-based actions.

Cons

  • No specified categories which may affect discoverability.
  • Limited to Linux platform only.
  • No mention of user interface or ease of use.

Software details

Platform
Linux
Free license
Yes
Project license
GPL-3.0-or-later
Mobile friendly
Yes
Bug tracker
https://gitlab.com/liferooter/textpieces/-/issues
Translate
https://gitlab.com/liferooter/textpieces/-/tree/main/po

Keywords

GNOME GTK Text Base64 JSON YAML Count SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 MD5 Checksum Escape Encode HTML URL Prettify Filter Reverse Trim

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