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dale77

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The perfect desktop

This guy has his list for Fedora Core 6. What are the killer apps for Arch?

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_d … dora_core6

My top apps are:

konqueror
kmail
konversation
k3b
cups
amarok
wesnoth
python
java
tomcat
bibletime
frozen-bubble
qemu
googleearth
openoffice

Dale

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: The perfect desktop

WindowMaker
ROX-Filer
Opera
mpd (sonata, ncmpc, mpc)
Vim
TeTeX
screen
rtorrent
Thunderbird
NetHack

Last edited by mucknert (2007-03-03 07:40:58)

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somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: The perfect desktop

yakuake
azureus
Opera
Gaim
filelight
amarok
k3b
k9copy
mplayer
konqueror (for just file management)
kuickshow

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: The perfect desktop

Just for fun (not Arch specific):

x264-svn-624
FFMPEG-svn
MPlayer/Mencoder (svn)
Gimp 2.3.14

<<thanks predatorfreak. I remember in a big way>>

And lots of stuff already listed...

Last edited by skottish (2007-03-03 08:19:15)

arvster

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From: Riga, Latvia

Registered: 2007-01-08

Posts: 37

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Re: The perfect desktop

Things that make my desktop (not only in Arch):
gimp
transmission
openoffice
mplayer
skype
firefox
amarok
dolphin
k3b
kuickshow
f-spot
beryl
audacity
dvd::rip
kino
vmware player
vlc
... etc.

aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: The perfect desktop

Desktop:
- epiphany-aqd
- gaim 2
- gmpc
- thunar file manager
- transmission (BT client)
- mplayer
- nero
- gtk2-aqd and my mac menubar applet!

Work:
- gvim
- aqua data studio
- smartsvn
- x-develop
- m$ office 2003
- vmware server

Zepp

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 334

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Re: The perfect desktop

wmii
gaim
screen
rxvt-unicode
gvim
irssi
mpd + ncmpc
klibido
rtorrent
mozilla firefox
gimp
openoffice
evince
picasa
thunar
something for my ipod (using amarok at the moment...)

I think that's most of the essentials  (off the top of my head)

Last edited by Zepp (2007-03-03 09:46:01)

Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

Posts: 445

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Re: The perfect desktop

Killer app is kernel26beyond. I don't other distros providing binary fr this patchset

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gunnix

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Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 102

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Re: The perfect desktop

- opera + mozplugger + flash (almost never use it but anyway, there are certain stupid websites)
- mplayer for watching videos and converting formats
- xmms to play music (mp3 or ogg)
- icewm + silverxptheme good keyboard and mouse support, fast
- menumaker to make the icewm menu
- screen in transparent aterm
- xzgv picture viewer
- emelfm file manager
- vim, nano and nedit editors for html,scripts, ...
- abiword for normal texts
- cplay to play music in console (ncmpc is really nice too)
- elinks to browse in console
- muttng to read mail  (gui sylpheed claws is nice..)
- lftp
- irssi + bitlbee to chat
- xpdf
- graveman to burn cd / dvd

http://users.skynet.be/six/gpure/tech/lightdesktop.html

I would like to see more programs using the FLTK toolkit instead of GTK or GTK2 (I never use qt except for opera)

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psyBSD

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 25

Re: The perfect desktop

My Sister's Desktop Environment
xfce4 (4.4.0)
window-manager: xfwm4
file-manager: Thunar
archive-manager: Squeeze
media-player: xmms

IM: gaim
Browser: firefox (despite the memory footprint)

Abiword
hal-device-daemon
OO.o (for extreme emergencies)

Last edited by psyBSD (2007-03-03 15:09:44)

aquila_deus

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 348

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Re: The perfect desktop

I would like to see more programs using the FLTK toolkit instead of GTK or GTK2 (I never use qt except for opera)

NOOOOOOOO!! I don't want to make another mac menubar patch.....

gunnix

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Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: The perfect desktop

I would like to see more programs using the FLTK toolkit instead of GTK or GTK2 (I never use qt except for opera)

NOOOOOOOO!! I don't want to make another mac menubar patch.....

It won't happen anyway

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caust1c

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Registered: 2005-12-02

Posts: 56

Re: The perfect desktop

wm: dwm (with mod)
term: urxvt
browser: there is no perfect browser
im client: gajim
irc client: irssi
pdf viewer: dont know any nice (using evince atm)
music player: mpd + ncmpc

skale

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2006-08-04

Posts: 146

Re: The perfect desktop

Openbox + ROX
terminal (the xfce one)
firefox
abiword (with openoffice for the fancier stuff)
gtk-gnutella
audacious
gimp
f-spot
google-earth (if that counts)
naim

That's all, I really don't need to do that much.

dale77

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From: Down under

Registered: 2007-02-10

Posts: 102

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Re: The perfect desktop

So to sum up:

GUI:
KDE
WindowMaker
Beryl is a compositing window manager for the X Window System.
wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11
icewm
xfce4
dwm is a dynamic window manager for X
Openbox is a standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager

Editor:
Vim, gvim   4
Kate
nano
nedit

File Manager:
Thunar is a Unix file manager 3
konqueror 2
ROX-Filer
Dolphin is a new File Manager for KDE4
emelFM2 is an orthodox file manager

Web Browser:
firefox 4
Opera 3
konqueror
epiphany
elinks

Email Client:
kmail
Thunderbird
mutt-ng  mutt next generation is a fork of the well-known email client mutt

IRC Client:
Irssi, irssi + bitlbee 3
konversation

IM Client:
gaim 5

News:
KLibido is a news client for the KDE desktop

CD/DVD authoring:
k3b 3
K9copy is a DVD authoring program
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl
nero
graveman

Graphics Apps:
Gimp 4
Kuickshow is a free software image viewer and slideshow program 2
F-Spot is a photograph management application 2
Picasa is a computer application for organizing and editing digital photos
xzgv is an image viewer for X Window System that incorporates a thumbnail-based file selector

Print System:
cups

Media Player:
MPlayer is a free and open source media player 5
amarok 4
mpd (sonata, ncmpc, mpc) 4
XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free software audio player 2
FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video.
Audacity is a free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor.
Kino is a free software, GTK+-based non-linear digital video editor.
VLC media player is a free software (GPL) media player
gmpc Gnome Music Player Client 
cplay - a curses front-end for various audio players
Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player

Games:
wesnoth
frozen-bubble
NetHack

Development Languages:
python
java

Development IDE:
X-develop is our multi-language cross-platform IDE

Development Source Control:
SmartSVN is an innovative multi-platform client for Subversion

Web Server:
tomcat

Office Software:
openoffice 5
abiword 3
Evince is a free software document viewer 2
TeTeX
kpdf
xpdf

Virtualization:
vmware player,vmware server 2
qemu

BitTorrent:
rtorrent 2
transmission 2
azureus

Database:
aqua data studio

Misc:
YaKuake is a KDE terminal emulator
rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt 2
screen is a free terminal multiplexer 3
Filelight is a KDE graphical disk-space analyzer
bibletime Sword based bible study software
skype  is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony network
LFTP is sophisticated ftp/http client
googleearth is a virtual globe program 2
Squeeze is a modern and advanced archive manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
gtk-gnutella p2p thingy
MenuMaker is application finding and menu generation utility.
gtk2-aqd (whatever that is)

The Hall of Shame:
m$ office 2003

Last edited by dale77 (2007-03-05 09:32:58)

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: The perfect desktop

I would like to see more programs using the FLTK toolkit instead of GTK or GTK2 (I never use qt except for opera)

NOOOOOOOO!! I don't want to make another mac menubar patch.....

As if someone cares.

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gunnix

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Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: The perfect desktop

I just tried the cmus music player for console and like it much more then cplay. cplay is a python app and that means it's slower, though the ui is great.

rtorrent I just tried yesterday and it's great! Way better then bittornado

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: The perfect desktop

wm: dwm (with mod)
term: urxvt
browser: there is no perfect browser
im client: gajim
irc client: irssi
pdf viewer: dont know any nice (using evince atm)
music player: mpd + ncmpc

May I just put my signature below your list instead of writing the same again?

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Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 79

Re: The perfect desktop

OpenBox3
lxpanel
Quod Libet
Transmission
GAIM
Tea-Lite
Abiword
FireFox
PCManFM
Feh
The Tango icons
The Rezlooks GTK theme

I dont know about terminals though, I want one that can copy/paste text.

zack

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From: Portsmouth, UK

Registered: 2006-09-11

Posts: 32

Re: The perfect desktop

I dont know about terminals though, I want one that can copy/paste text.

Shift + Insert = Paste
Control + Insert = Copy

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: The perfect desktop

screen
vim
pebrot
irssi
bitlbee
elinks
w3m
less
raggle

Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: The perfect desktop

aterm

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Stalwart

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From: Latvia, Riga

Registered: 2005-10-18

Posts: 445

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Re: The perfect desktop

I dont know about terminals though, I want one that can copy/paste text.

Shift + Insert = Paste
Control + Insert = Copy

Select text with mouse = copy
Middleclick = paste

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Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 79

Re: The perfect desktop

I dont know about terminals though, I want one that can copy/paste text.

Shift + Insert = Paste
Control + Insert = Copy

Select text with mouse = copy
Middleclick = paste

Ah okay, thanks a lot.

ootput

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 114

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Re: The perfect desktop

screen
vim
pebrot
irssi
bitlbee
elinks
w3m
less
raggle

with the exception of pebrot elinks and less, I use the same set of tools.

In addition, I use mutt, most, and slrn

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