Arch holiday madness! nominations

Ape · 2010-12-11 17:34:19

1. pacman-color - Color support for pacman (IMO this should be integrated with the official pacman)
2. gnome-colors-icon-theme and gnome-colors-icon-theme-extras - The best icon pack there is
3. bmpanel2 - A really good panel (I use with Openbox)
4. montecarlo-font - A nice monospace font
5. mpdscribble - Last.fm scrobbling for MPD
6. pidgin-gfire - Xfire support for Pidgin (altough I am planning to stop using Xfire)

litemotiv · 2010-12-11 17:42:50

Ape wrote:

5. mpdscribble - Last.fm scrobbling for MPD

+1 for mpdscribble, i find it the most pleasant scrobbler to use.

Also:

murrine-themes-collection. gtk-engine-murrine is already in [community], the themes collection is the first thing most people will want to install after that.

lilsirecho · 2010-12-11 17:44:58

Jumanji

atommixz · 2010-12-11 18:24:17

unbound - because it's best and serious alternative BIND
openl2tp - because it's only one implementation l2tp work via kernel-module (best ping and fastest speed)
yaourt - because someone has to
pacman-color - because someone has to
catalyst, and here - yes, I need it
xvba-video, and here - for mplayer-vaapi support AMD cards hardware video decoding
I wrote it not in vain, if at least one packet will be picked up. Thenks, Guys!

Last edited by atommixz (2010-12-11 18:28:41)

SiD · 2010-12-11 18:25:35

rubyripper
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7833

litemotiv · 2010-12-11 19:46:35

SiD wrote:

rubyripper
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7833

Yea that's a nice one too, great audio ripper.

dcc24 · 2010-12-11 20:50:18

I simply cannot believe no one has nominated Kupfer (which I'm the maintainer of) yet!

Kupfer (135 votes on AUR): Launcher application written in python. Similar to Gnome-Do / Launchy. (No mono dependencies, hooray!)

Why it should be included: It has a lot of votes, gets regular updates, it's quite easy to maintain and most importantly, why shouldn't it be included?

Last edited by dcc24 (2010-12-11 22:30:07)

litemotiv · 2010-12-11 20:56:30

Oh how could i forget Ranger, the swiss army knife of filemanagers?

schivmeister · 2010-12-11 21:10:38

* cairo-xcb
** awesome
* catalyst

These were dropped and will not be brought back, unless the situation gets significantly better and someone bothers to take interest again. XCB support was dropped from our cairo, so awesome had to go. Catalyst was becoming a PITA for the kernel maintainers, so it had to leave the repo as well.

* murrine-themes-collection

Dropped due to low usage I think.

* yaourt

Never happening.

Anyway, I see some good stuff here. Keep 'em comin'

Last edited by schivmeister (2010-12-11 21:29:22)

Giselher · 2010-12-11 21:55:20

Mhm, lets check pacman -Qmq
...
0. kbd-neo (well, my keyboard layout)
1. simple-scan (must have)
2. ranger (noaw)
3. jdownloader

nice to have:
* pike
* android-sdk
* spe
* pan
* linuxdcpp

brisbin33 · 2010-12-11 21:55:33

Ape wrote:

1. pacman-color - Color support for pacman (IMO this should be integrated with the official pacman)

this.

Natanji · 2010-12-11 22:06:17

I agree with pacman-color.

Additionally, I would really love to see enigmail and lightning. Both are very essential Thunderbird addons that seemingly need Arch-specifics to work properly (installing the generic versions via Thunderbird's own addon system doesn't work properly), and both are a pain in the ass to recompile. Compiling also takes hell long. So it would be REALLY awesome if they could be properly supported!

Oh, and just because it's nice to have: xtrlock. Awesome screen locking tool, very simple and lightweight too.

Last edited by Natanji (2010-12-11 22:07:00)

anonymous_user · 2010-12-11 22:20:11

1. qtfm - A light file manager thats a good alternative to thunar and pcmanfm-mod.

2. clipit - A fork of Parcellite in active development

3. dmenu-xft - Its dmenu but with xft support

4. bleachbit - Useful for cleaning up junk files and language files too.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-12-11 22:22:44)

thestinger · 2010-12-11 22:28:27

litemotiv wrote:

Oh how could i forget Ranger, the swiss army knife of filemanagers?

ranger++;

jasonwryan · 2010-12-11 22:56:20

deadbeef [2]
calibre
dvdbackup
CDM [2]
GHDL
pandoc
mnemnosyne
jumanji [2]
pacman-color [5]
gnome-colors-icon-theme{,extras]
bmpanel
montecarlo-font
mpdscribble [3]
pidgin-gfire
murrine-themes-collection
unbound
openl2tp
xvba-video
rubyripper [2]
Kupfer
Ranger [3]
simple-scan
jdownloader
kbd-neo
vimprobable{1,2} - great lightweight browser with vim keys

(Hope I got all of them - minus the ones discounted to this point)

falconindy · 2010-12-11 23:08:23

Keep in mind that, on principle, Arch doesn't patch software for features (e.g. pacman-color, dmenu-xft). If you want those features in the official repo packages, send a pull request upstream.

You'll also never see an AUR helper in the official repos.

firecat53 · 2010-12-11 23:40:32

deadbeef [2]
calibre
dvdbackup
CDM [2]
GHDL
pandoc
mnemnosyne
jumanji [2]
pacman-color [5]
gnome-colors-icon-theme{,extras]
bmpanel
montecarlo-font
mpdscribble [3]
pidgin-gfire
murrine-themes-collection
unbound
openl2tp
xvba-video
rubyripper [2]
Kupfer
Ranger [4]
simple-scan
jdownloader
kbd-neo
vimprobable{1,2} - great lightweight browser with vim keys

Ranger +1 !!!

Scott

deadshox · 2010-12-11 23:57:37

jDownloader
broadcom-wl
yaourt
geany-addons
geanylatex
python-couchdb
rar
simple-scan
volumeicon

deadbeef [3]
calibre
dvdbackup
CDM [2]
GHDL
pandoc
mnemnosyne
jumanji [2]
pacman-color [5]
gnome-colors-icon-theme{,extras}
bmpanel
montecarlo-font
mpdscribble [3]
pidgin-gfire
murrine-themes-collection
unbound
openl2tp
xvba-video
rubyripper [2]
Kupfer
Ranger [4]
simple-scan [1}
jdownloader [1]
kbd-neo
vimprobable{1,2}
volumeicon
rar
python-couchdb
broadcom-wl
yaourt
geany-addons
geanylatex

# Edit
Deadbeaf looks so perfect. I think it will be my new standard music player!

Last edited by deadshox (2010-12-12 13:48:01)

Dirk Sohler · 2010-12-11 23:59:36

tomd123 wrote:

flashplugin - outdated package, use prerelease for 64bit

Pre-release does not work for me on some sites.

tomd123 wrote:

mupdf-darcs - mupdf is already in community

Still the outdated version that does not work on a lot of newer PDF files, or the latest Darcs version?

tomd123 wrote:

rxvt-unicode-256color - I deleted this one myself, switch to rxvt-unicode in extra since it has 256 colors enabled

This wasn't, as i started using it.

tomd123 wrote:

Btw, you didn't follow the article. You should provide a brief sentence about why we should include it.

Okay, here's my second try:

hsetroot - Better compatibility when it comes to pseudo transparency, than using ImageMagic's display.
jdownloader - De facto standard for downloading stuff with enhanced privacy
mozplugger - Integrates mplayer, totem, openoffice, evince, xmms and many more into Mozilla browsers for directly open associated files
mupdf-darcs - because the version already in the repos is outdated and the Darcs version has less bugs and better compatibility
pcmanfm-mod - more functions and faster development than the original version.

Last edited by Dirk Sohler (2010-12-12 00:01:30)

atommixz · 2010-12-12 00:01:55

eiskaltdcpp qt & gtk version. I think it's best gui DC client

anonymous_user · 2010-12-12 00:58:30

falconindy wrote:

Keep in mind that, on principle, Arch doesn't patch software for features (e.g. pacman-color, dmenu-xft).

What about keeping a separate patched package with a different name than the original? After all there is an mplayer package and then mplayer-vaapi in community.

falconindy · 2010-12-12 01:05:20

anonymous_user wrote:

What about keeping a separate patched package with a different name than the original? After all there is an mplayer package and then mplayer-vaapi in community.

Interesting, I didn't actually know about that package. However, mplayer-vaapi isn't patched for vaapi support. It's just compiled differently.

bangkok_manouel · 2010-12-12 01:25:45

falconindy wrote:

anonymous_user wrote:
What about keeping a separate patched package with a different name than the original? After all there is an mplayer package and then mplayer-vaapi in community.
Interesting, I didn't actually know about that package. However, mplayer-vaapi isn't patched for vaapi support. It's just compiled differently.

yes it is.

kaitocracy · 2010-12-12 01:37:35

falconindy wrote:

Keep in mind that, on principle, Arch doesn't patch software for features (e.g. pacman-color, dmenu-xft). If you want those features in the official repo packages, send a pull request upstream.
You'll also never see an AUR helper in the official repos.

I think pacman-color may be valid. It's not a patch; it's a wrapper.

Allan · 2010-12-12 01:39:56

kaitocracy wrote:

falconindy wrote:
Keep in mind that, on principle, Arch doesn't patch software for features (e.g. pacman-color, dmenu-xft). If you want those features in the official repo packages, send a pull request upstream.
You'll also never see an AUR helper in the official repos.
I think pacman-color may be valid. It's not a patch; it's a wrapper.

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