Frog vs desktop-entry-creator

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Frog		desktop-entry-creator
	Project
3	Mentions	2
480	Stars	63
4.4%	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	0.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Frog

Posts with mentions or reviews of Frog. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024

The similar app I am using is Frog (https://getfrog.app) with great sucesss.
How about OCR support in new screenshot tool and loupe for gnome 43 (whenever it gets released)
1 project | /r/gnome | 23 May 2022
Best OCR tool that works as smooth as Frog from ElementoryOS
1 project | /r/ManjaroLinux | 5 Dec 2021

However i cannot build their package https://github.com/TenderOwl/Frog for some reason. I have to try to get it working.

desktop-entry-creator

Posts with mentions or reviews of desktop-entry-creator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.

making desktop links?
1 project | /r/pop_os | 29 May 2022

The ones I've found after a minute of googling: Arronax, gnome-desktop-item-edit (part of gnome-panel) or this one written in python
I made a Linux app for beginners that lets you create Desktop Shortcuts quickly and easily!
5 projects | /r/linux | 4 Feb 2022

Desktop Entry Creator

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Frog and desktop-entry-creator you can also consider the following projects:

zuckbot - A virtual reincarnation of Mark Zuckerberg encapsulated in a desktop application built on Python.

GPU-Viewer - A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info - Linux

easy-mqtt-handler - Easy MQTT Handler is a MQTT Client implemented in Python3 that will connect to a MQTT Broker, listening for freely configurable messages and reacting by executing arbitrary pre-defined commands. It comes with a Qt5-based GUI.

DeskCut - 👨‍💻 DeskCut - An easy-to-use linux app that lets you create Desktop Shortcuts hassle-free

cozy - 🎧 Listen to audio books 📚 on Linux

node-qt - C++ Qt bindings for Node.js

gtock - Fork of GNOME Task Scheduler

chromecast_mpris - 📺 Control Chromecasts from Linux and D-Bus

quicktile - Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)

Dindo-Bot - :robot: Farming bot for Dofus game

Plymouth-Creator - A tool using GTK3 and Python to easily create your own plymouth boot animations from an .mp4 video or single .png files with a GUI.