I'm working on the next major version of Aptik. It should be ready by end of October. Some of the new features that will be added are given below.
A package manager similar to Synaptic but without the complexity. It will let you easily browse and install available packages. You can also view, add and purge PPAs. I'm aiming to keep this as simple as possible since I don't want this to evolve into another Synaptic.
Storage Manager
Lets you auto-mount devices at boot time. Basically a GUI for editing the /etc/fstab file.
Ramdisk Manager
Lets you move the contents of a folder to RAM. This will speed-up read/write actions to that folder since contents are being read/written from memory instead of a physical drive. This is useful for reducing wear and tear on solid-state drives and for speeding up web browsing by moving the cache to memory.
Brightness & Bluetooth fix
Many laptops have issues with maintaining the display brightness after a reboot. The brightness usually gets reset to 100%. This utility will help you set a fixed brightness value on startup or keep the same brightness level with a few clicks.
Many laptops will switch on Bluetooth automatically at startup. This utility provides an option to keep it switched off.
Compression Utility
A small utility to compress files using 7-zip with all the options that are provided by the 7-zip GUI in windows. I will be creating this since I was not able to find any tool on Linux which provides all the 7-zip compression options that we get on Windows. It will have options to integrate with Thunar and Nemo so that you can compress and extract files and folders from the right-click menu.
Suggestions and Feedback
What tools are you missing on your Ubuntu system? Leave a comment below if you have any suggestions or requests.
Aptik currently does backup and restore for PPAs, packages, application settings, themes and icons. With the new version I will be adding a bunch of new tools and utilities which will make your life a lot easier as a Ubuntu user.
Software Manager
A package manager similar to Synaptic but without the complexity. It will let you easily browse and install available packages. You can also view, add and purge PPAs. I'm aiming to keep this as simple as possible since I don't want this to evolve into another Synaptic.
Battery Monitor
A laptop battery monitor which shows you a graph of your battery stats over the last few days. It will give you an fairly accurate estimate of your current battery life based on your usage habits. It will also show you the battery discharge rate (percentage drop per hour) along with CPU usage and process information. This will help you determine which activities drained your battery the most.
I made this since I couldn't find another utility which does something similar. Let me know if you know of any other battery monitoring tools or if you have any suggestions for improving this.
Storage Manager
Lets you auto-mount devices at boot time. Basically a GUI for editing the /etc/fstab file.
Ramdisk Manager
Lets you move the contents of a folder to RAM. This will speed-up read/write actions to that folder since contents are being read/written from memory instead of a physical drive. This is useful for reducing wear and tear on solid-state drives and for speeding up web browsing by moving the cache to memory.
Brightness & Bluetooth fix
Many laptops have issues with maintaining the display brightness after a reboot. The brightness usually gets reset to 100%. This utility will help you set a fixed brightness value on startup or keep the same brightness level with a few clicks.
Many laptops will switch on Bluetooth automatically at startup. This utility provides an option to keep it switched off.
Compression Utility
A small utility to compress files using 7-zip with all the options that are provided by the 7-zip GUI in windows. I will be creating this since I was not able to find any tool on Linux which provides all the 7-zip compression options that we get on Windows. It will have options to integrate with Thunar and Nemo so that you can compress and extract files and folders from the right-click menu.
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| 7-zip's Windows GUI ( The new tool's options will be similar ) |
Suggestions and Feedback
What tools are you missing on your Ubuntu system? Leave a comment below if you have any suggestions or requests.