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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: The perfect desktop

Are we posting killer apps, or just tools we use daily?

screen, vim, weechat, more, bash, htop, mutt-ng are all in daily use by myself.

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funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: The perfect desktop

my perfect desktop is kde + beryl (and sometimes fvwm):

terminal: konsole (because of the new-tab-button, no other terminal seems to have it)
filemanager: konqueror (kio slaves, i use it for ssh and ftp)
browser: opera with mplayer-plugin (that may change with kde4)
mail: kmail
instant messenger: psi (smaller and cleaner than kopete)
irc: konversation
ftp: kftpgrabber (for fat uploads, has some very nice options like bandwidth restrictions)
downloads: kget
audio-player: amarok and xmms (still)
audio-tagger: kid3 (small and powerful)
graphics: GIMPshop
video-playing: kaffeine and mplayer
bittorrent: ktorrent
editor: kate
office: openoffice (i need to exchange .doc files, otherwise i would use koffice)
archives: ark
search: strigi (very fast, lightweight and good kde integration)

terminal apps i use often:
ssh
screen
mc
vim
svn
elinks
wget
ncftp
less
more
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s26c.sayan

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From: Kolkata, India

Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 176

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Re: The perfect desktop

My daily Arch desktop would include:

Fluxbox
XFCE Terminal
PCmanFM (or XFE)
Idesk (for Desktop icons)
Conky
Xcompmgr (occassionally)
Firefox
Gaim
Skype
Xpdf (plus Adobe Reader too...)
Transmission (torrents)
Frostwire (file sharing)
Audacious music  player
VLC
Gimp
GQview
Abiword
Mousepad
........

and I

Last edited by s26c.sayan (2007-03-08 08:28:01)

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dunkelstern

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From: Augsburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 68

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Re: The perfect desktop

Hm let me think:
- Konsole (for just everything)
- Kopete
- Skype
- XChat
- Gimp (and go away with GimpShop... don't find anything in Photoshop either *g*)
- Konqueror (for almost all Websites, sometimes even for file browsing, KIO etc.)
- Firefox (only for ebay and some odd other sites)
- KShutdown
- Amarok
- Akregator
- Kdevelop
- Kate
- Kmail + GPG plugin
- Kaffeine
- TV time
- Scribus
- Inkscape

On Terminal:
- mc (Midnight commander, with that you're fast as hell in file management)
- gcc
- make
- tar
- gzip
- 7za (from p7zip package)
- vi (emacs is just another operating system )
- elinks
- ssh
- wget / wput

Well... no Office Application you may ask, but I don't need one, just using scribus or plaintext files

phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: The perfect desktop

I wouldn't call it perfect by any means, but its the best I've come accross so far:

xfce4
thunar/thunar-volman
(g)vim
firefox
thunderbird
skype
gaim
Azureus
galculator
graveman
xarchiver
cups
gqview
gimp
eclipse
audacious
mplayer
adobe reader
open office

those are the graphical things, for the cli I don't even know where to begin, so I won't

onearm

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From: Anywhere but here

Registered: 2006-07-06

Posts: 359

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Re: The perfect desktop

WM: Openbox
Browser: Firefox/Swiftfox (although there is not such a thing as a perfect browser)
Terminal: urxvt (konsole when in kde)
Mail: Mutt all the way
Newsgroup: Slrn
File Manager: ROX-Filer/Thunar/Konqueror (I can't decide which of these I like more, each one has something that the others haven't)
Editor: Vim
IM: Kopete
P2P/Torrent: rtorrent
P2P/edonkey: aMule/mldonkey
irc: konversation (switching to weechat...)
audio player: amarok
id3 tagger: Easytag
video player: mplayer
Office: Openoffice
pdf reader: Kpdf
image viewer: kuickshow/feh
image editor: Gimp

for all the rest, I use simple terminal commands as bzip2, unrar, ftp, wget etc.

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PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: The perfect desktop

openbox
epiphany
thunderbird
psi
ktorrent
lyx
scribus
inkscape
gimp
k3b
urxvt
pcmanfm
eclipse
frozen bubble
wesnoth

I am still looking for a "perfect" mediaplayer and a "perfect" pdf reader. So in the meantime I am using rhythmbox and acrobat reader.

Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 191

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Re: The perfect desktop

No special order...

konqueror
amarok
firefox
xchat
konsole
xine
azureus
kpdf
screen
wget
akregator
gftp
mc
scribus
gimp
digikam
grip
k3b
nano

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espo

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From: Stuttgart - Germany

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 74

Re: The perfect desktop

*me waves to Susu* *maybe you know who i am*

dwm/ion3

- rxvt-unicode
- mpd/mpc/ncmpc
- vim -> and some plugins
- gcc
- java
- latex
- ii
- mutt-ng
- fdm
- ssh
- screen
- zsh
- ncftp
- elinks and some times firefox with conkeror

Greetings
eSpo

Last edited by espo (2007-03-16 17:36:46)

Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 191

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Re: The perfect desktop

*me waves to Susu* *maybe you know who i am*

Wow espo, didn't know your an Achie! *hug*

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dangerousHobo

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Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 30

Re: The perfect desktop

KDE
konqueror
amarok
konsole
xine
vim
kate
OOo
k3b
Conky
Eclipse
gimp
Umbrella (UML)

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print

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

Re: The perfect desktop

Ranked by order of importance:

Sanity: beer/coffee
Term: gnome-terminal/PuTTY ('Doze)
Connectivity: ssh
Multiplexer: screen
Text editor: vim
wm: wmii
Browser: firefox
Music player: cmus
Music getter: rtorrent
IRC: irssi
AIM: gaim
pr0n: mplayer
www: apache
db: mysql
word processing: LaTeX

I have intentionally left languages off of this list, as they are not really part of the desktop so much as they are part of higher order stateless abstractions. Plus there are too many to name!

Last edited by print (2007-03-28 21:48:42)

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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: The perfect desktop

My Favorite Apps:

Desktop Enviroment: Gnome
Filemanager: Nautilus
Terminal: Gnome-Terminal

Web browser: Epiphany
IM client: Gaim
RSS reader: Liferea
IRC client. XChat

Music player: Rhythmbox
Video player: Mplayer
Other multimedia: Gtkpod

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Lontronics

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Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 121

Re: The perfect desktop

A small amount of packages installed;

- blackbox as window manager

- emelfm2 filemanager

- gmplayer mediaplayer
- aumix audio mixer
- graveman cd burner

- opera browser
- sylpheed mailclient
- xchat irc chat
- gftp ftp program
- limewire filesharing/ download

- gimp image-editer
- gqview image-viewer
- xpdf pdf viewer

- openoffice office
- medit text editor

- xterm terminal

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: The perfect desktop

screen, vim, weechat, more, bash, htop, mutt-ng are all in daily use by myself.

ditto. Ratpoison is a killer app for me too, since it makes me much more productive.

Also:

+ centericq
+ feh
+mpd

- KD