• Registered: 2009-06-09
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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
GDM

Bootloader
Grub2

Archive Managers
Archive Manager

Backup Programs
rsync

CD ripper
xfburn

File Managers
Thunar

FTP/SSH
gftp

Image Editors
GIMP


Instant Messengers
Pidgin

IRC Clients
XChat
Pidgin

Mail Client
Thunderbird/Icedove 3


Music Players
moc (cli)
Quod Libet

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
OpenOffice Impress
Abiword
Gnumeric


PDF Reader
evince

System Monitors
Conky
xfce4-taskmanager

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
vim
Geany

Torrent Clients
Transmission


Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Iceweasel


Other
Gparted
Gdebi
volwheel
Xscreensaver


Thanks,

Kevin

  • Registered: 2010-03-29
  • Posts: 39

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers: GDM
Bootloader: Grub legacy
Archive Managers: File-Roller
Backup Programs: Remastersys
Calculator: Qalculate-gtk
CD burner: Brasero
CD ripper: Sound Juicer
File Managers: Worker
Fonts: Liberation
Games: Fish Fillets NG
HTML Editors: Kompozer
Icon themes: Humanity
Image Editors: GIMP
Image Editors (vector): Inkscape
Image Viewers: Ristretto
IRC Clients: XChat
Music Editor: Audacity
Music Players: Audacious
Network: gftp
Office Apps: Abiword
PDF Reader: Evince
System Monitors: htop
System Panels/Menus/Trays: xfce4-panel
Terminal Emulators: xterm
Text Editors: Leafpad
Torrent Clients: Deluge
Video Editor: PiTiVi
Video Players: MPlayer
Video Transcoder: Handbrake
Web Browsers: Firefox
Other: Pan (usenet), Google Earth (maps), VirtualBox (VM), Comix (graphic novels), GWhere (media catalog management), MadEdit (multipurpose editor), Anjuta (IDE)

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  • Registered: 2010-03-25
  • Posts: 63

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Anonymous, mind if I change mine? I already voted, but changed my opinion.
Now that I have used Statler a while, I know nicer programs tongue

Here's what I want to change:

wishwish wrote:

Archive Managers
Change my vote "Squeeze" to "File Roller"

Games
Change my vote "gBrainy" to "no vote"
I hate mono!

Instant Messengers
Change my vote "Pidgin" to "no vote"

Music Players
Change my vote "Banshee" to "no vote"
I hate mono!

Network:
Change my vote "Wicd" to "no vote"
Network Manager actually works on crunchbang! It didn't work in Ubuntu, for me.

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Change my vote "Xfce panel" to "no vote"
Change my vote "Docky" to "no vote"

Other
Change my vote "Gnome-do" to "dmenu".
I hate mono!
And I fell in love with dmenu :-)

Last edited by wishwish (2010-04-19 04:42:48)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Ok I made the changes.

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
GDM
because i need gnome-keyring-daemon, hope i'll write small howto about
this.

Bootloader
grub2
works fine in all my computers(incl. my old Pentium3 Celeron and new
laptop).

Archive Managers
xarchiver
atool
xarchiver have support for CP1251 encoding in archives,

Backup Programs
backup-manager
perl scripts with many options.

Calculator
python
best calculator smile

CD burner
xfburn
lighweight. Usually a prefer k3b, because of it functionality. But we need smth. light.

CD ripper
NE

File Managers
mc
PCManFM
mc my main tool, i can't imagine my work without it.
PCManFM for mount removable devices.

Fonts
Droid

Games
OpenTTD

HTML Editors
geany

Icon themes
Humanity
From lucid repository.

Image Editors
GIMP


Image Editors (vector)
NE
Inkscape would be fine, but i don't use any.

Image Utilities
NE

Image viewers
Viewnior
Gthumb

Instant Messengers
Pidgin
mcabber (cli)

IRC Clients
NE

Mail Client
IceDove
mutt (cli)

Microblogging client
NE

Music Editor
Audacity
Because we have nothing better.

Music Players
moc (cli)

Music Tagger
EasyTag

Network (FTP/SSH)
ssh
FileZilla
FileZilla - ugly, but only tool that could work with various codepages

Network (remote shares)
NE
i don't use any, maybe gigolo

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Notes
vim (cli)

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

Password Manager
KeepassX

PDF Reader
Evince

Podcast client
gpodder

RSS reader
IceDove

Search Utility
find (cli)

System Information
lshw (cli)
gnome-device-manager

System Monitors
htop (cli)

System Panels/Menus/Trays
panel from awesome wm

Terminal Emulators
urvxt
urxvt have daemon mode, really lighweight terminal emulator.

Text Editors
Geany
vim (cli)

Torrent Clients
qbittorent
rtorrent (cli)

Video Editor
NE

Video Players
MPlayer
SMPlayer

Video Transcoder
NE

Web Browsers
Iceweasel

Other
Dropbox
Xscreensaver
Seahorse
Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox
screen
FBReader

  • Registered: 2009-09-27
  • Posts: 67

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc

Bootloader
Grub2

Archive Managers
atool (cli)

File Managers
PCManFM

Fonts
Dina

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Editors (vector)
Inkscape

Image Viewers
Feh

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

IRC Clients
irssi (cli)

Music Editor
Audacity

Music Players
VLC

Network (FTP/SSH)
ssh (cli)

Network Managers
Wicd

Office Apps
Abiword

PDF Reader
xpdf

System Monitors
htop (cli)

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
Vim (cli)

Torrent Clients
rtorrent (cli)

Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Google Chrome

Other
Unetbootin

last.fm/libre.fm
  • Registered: 2009-06-21
  • Posts: 81

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

anonymous wrote:

I decided to borrow this idea from the Arch Linux Forums. Just copy the categories and vote for your favorite apps. Also feel free to submit your own categories if I haven't made it. I will periodically count votes and update this post with the tally.

Diplay/Login Managers
[29] startx/xinitrc
[23] SLiM
[165] GDM
[1] KDM
...................
....................
Last person counted: wishwish

Is that right....................165 GDM????????

133 Reply by rich

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Basically I am pretty happy with the system, and the apps below are only personal preferences which I change/install on all of my systems.

Text Editor
Scite

Ftp
Gftp

Browsers
Swiftfox (Howto)
Chrome (html5 over Flash for Youtube)

Podcasts
Gpodder

Network Manager
Wicd

Messenger
Pidgin

Email
Icedove

Sound
Alsa-Oss over Pulse Audio

Encryption
Ccrypt (Howto)

Last edited by rich (2010-04-19 12:05:27)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Can I recommend abcde as a CD ripper, even only as a supplemental choice to a graphical one? It really is fantastic, and is in the Debian repos.

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  • Registered: 2009-03-03
  • Posts: 46

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Google-Chrome
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  • From: Germany
  • Registered: 2010-04-07
  • Posts: 4

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
GDM

Bootloader
Grub 2

Archive Managers
File-Roller

Backup Programs
dd

Calculator
gcalctool

CD burner
Brasero

CD ripper
Sound Juicer

File Managers
Nautilus

Fonts
DejaVu fonts

Games
Teeworlds

HTML Editors
Geany

Icon themes
GNOME-colors

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Viewers
eog

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

IRC Clients
KVIrc

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Microblogging client
Pidgin

Music Editor
Audacity

Music Players
Banshee

Music Tagger
Picard

Network (FTP/SSH)
Nautilus
FileZilla

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader
Evince

Podcast client
Banshee

RSS reader
Thunderbird

System Information
hardinfo

System Monitors
htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
GNOME-Panel wink

Terminal Emulators
xterm
gnome-terminal

Text Editors
gedit

Torrent Clients
Transmission

Video Editor
Kdenlive

Video Players
VLC
Totem

Video Transcoder
HandBrake

Web Browsers
Firefox

Other
GParted
gtkpod
UNetbootin

  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2010-04-05
  • Posts: 10

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

My Favourite applications are

File Managers: Thunar
Image Viewers: Viewnoir
Instant Messengers: Pidgin
IRC Clients: XChat
Microblogging client: Pino
Music Players:     Exaile
Video Players:     VLC
Network Managers: Network Manager
Office Apps:         Open Office
Image editor:         GIMP
PDF Reader:         ePDFView
System Monitors:     Conky
System Panels:     Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors:         Gedit
Torrent Clients:     Transmission
File transfer client:     Gftp
Web Browsers:     Iceweasel

Extras: Xsane, Gigolo, Xfburn, Cheese, ISO Master

But best of all Crunchbang Linux Statler XFCE

Thanks

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  • From: Milan Area, Italy
  • Registered: 2009-04-29
  • Posts: 75

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Bootloader
    Grub legacy
    Grub2
Backup Programs
    Remastersys
CD burner
    Brasero
File Managers
    Thunar
Image Editors
    mtpaint
Image Viewers
    Viewnior
Instant Messengers
    Pidgin
    Skype
Network (FTP/SSH)
    ssh (cli)
    gftp
    scp (cli)
    ftp (cli)
    telnet (cli)
Network (remote shares)
    Gigolo
Network Managers
    Network-Manager
Office Apps
    OpenOffice.org
Password Manager
    KeepassX
PDF Reader
    Evince
    Foxit
Search Utility
    Catfish
System Information
    inxi (cli)
System Monitors
    Conky
    htop (cli)
    ps (cli)
System Panels/Menus/Trays
    lxpanel
Terminal Emulators
    Terminator
    Yakuake
Text Editors
    nano (cli)
    Leafpad
Torrent Clients
    Transmission
Video Players
    VLC
Video Transcoder
    ffmpeg (cli)
    ffwin
Web Browsers
    Firefox
    elinks (cli)
    SRware Iron
Other
    Gparted
    Gdebi
    Truecrypt
    Xscreensaver
    baobab
    build-essential
    BleachBit
    Gnome-Do
    Gufw
    screen
    eee-control
    TS Client
    VirtualBox

!# statler 10 + eee-control running on eee701/4gb/512ram
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  • Registered: 2010-02-16
  • Posts: 14

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I scratched Audacious of my previous post.  It won't play streaming audio any more (broken?).  Googling, it seems to be a common problem now.  Looking for an alternate small player (beside vlc).

Last edited by sirj77 (2010-04-23 15:30:43)

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  • Registered: 2010-01-02
  • Posts: 85

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I'd like to add less to my list of preferred apps.

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Archive Managers: default
File Managers: Thunar, Gnome-commander
Image Viewers: default, f-spot
IRC Clients: x-chat
Messenger: Pidgin
Music Players: qmmp
Music Editor: audacity
CD ripper: ripperx
Video Players: VLC
Video Editors: avidemux
Network Managers: Wicd
Office Apps: OpenOffice
Image editor: GIMP
System Monitors: Conky on desktop, htop & pcstats on cli,
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: gedit
Torrent Client: Transmission
Web Browsers: Chrome
Email Client: Thunderbird
Downloader: JDownloader
FTP clinet: gftp
Search tool: catfish
Extra: Stardict, IDLE

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142 Reply by Erik

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Not sure if this topic is still alive, but the other day I discovered 'Phatch', a nice tool to perform batch tasks on your pictures. It very easily lets you create a series of operations and then perform them on directory of pictures. It can also be used using the command line.

Would like to add a vote (someone else already recommended it in this thread) to for this useful tool!

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  • Registered: 2010-03-17
  • Posts: 68

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I don't know if this is still an ongoing thing to vote on, but I'd like to voice my preferences just in case it is.  smile

Diplay/Login Managers
[29] startx/xinitrc
[23] SLiM
[16] GDM

Bootloader
[18] Grub2
[1] GAG

Archive Managers
[45] File-Roller
[14] xarchiver

Backup Programs
[1] rsync

Calculator
[4] xcalc

CD burner
[7] K3b (I know that K3b is heavy and bloated with all the KDE stuff that comes with it, but I LOVE this particular software!!  smile )
[3] xfburn

CD ripper
[5] Sound Juicer
[2] RipperX

File Managers
[59] Thunar
[37] PCManFM

Fonts
[12] Droid
[6] Liberation
[1] Gentium
[1] Raleway
[1] Schoolboy text
[1] Terminus
[1] ttf-vlgothic

Games (doesn't really matter to me -- I don't really play games on the computer...)
[3] pychess

HTML Editors
[5] Kompozer
[1] Bluefish

Icon themes
[2] GNOME-Colors
[1] Humanity

Image Editors
[65] GIMP

Image Editors (vector)
[35] Inkscape

Image Utilities
[12] gcolor2
[11] agave
[4] Phatch

Image Viewers
[10] Gthumb
[3] GTKam

Instant Messengers
[14] Skype

IRC Clients (I don't know enough about them to vote intelligently)

Mail Client
[13] Claws mail

Microblogging client
[11] Pino

Music Editor
[23] Audacity

Music Players
[1] xfmedia

Music Tagger
[2] Ex Falso

Network (FTP/SSH)
[8] gftp
[1] FireFTP add-on for Firefox

Network (remote shares)
[2] xsmbrowser

Network Managers
[49] Network-Manager

Notes
[4] xpad
[1] Tomboy

Office Apps
[51] OpenOffice.org
[38] Abiword
[28] Gnumeric
[6] Scribus
[1] Xfce dictionary

Password Manager
[4] KeepassX

PDF Reader
[2] xpdf
[1] evince-lite

Podcast client
[4] bashpodder

RSS reader
[1] RSS plugin for Claws Mail
[1] Sage add-on for Firefox

Search Utility
[16] Catfish

System Information
[10] Hardinfo
[4] Sysinfo

System Monitors
[80] Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
[65] Tint2

Terminal Emulators
[64] Terminator

Text Editors
[44] Gedit
[27] Leafpad

Torrent Clients
[46] Transmission

Video Editor
[11] Avidemux

Video Players
[10] MPlayer

Video Transcoder (I don't know enough about them to vote intelligently)

Web Browsers
[55] Firefox
[13] Iceweasel
[8] Opera

Other
[36] Gparted
[19] Unetbootin
[15] Gdebi
[10] dmenu
[7] Nitrogen
[7] Truecrypt
[7] Xscreensaver
[5] baobab
[5] build-essential
[4] BleachBit
[3] Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox
[3] Wine
[2] Alarm-clock
[2] Boot Up Manager (BUM)
[1] Google Earth

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

groovydaddy wrote:

Diplay/Login Managers
[29] startx/xinitrc
[23] SLiM
[16] GDM

groovydaddy wrote:

Fonts
[12] Droid
[6] Liberation
[1] Gentium
[1] Raleway
[1] Schoolboy text
[1] Terminus
[1] ttf-vlgothic

Did you want to vote for nearly all the items in these categories? I ask because the title of the thread is "Vote for your preferred apps"

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  • Posts: 86

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
SLiM

Archive Managers
File-Roller

CD burner
xfburn

CD ripper
abcde

File Managers
Thunar

Fonts
FreeMono

Games
Simutrans
OpenTTD
BurgerSpace

Icon themes
ACYL

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Viewers
GPicView

Music Editor
Audacity

Music Players
moc

Music Tagger
Easytag

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader
Evince

System Monitors
Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Tilda

Text Editors
Leafpad

Torrent Clients
Transmission

Video Editor
Avidemux

Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Midori

Other
Nitrogen
pysdm
volumeicon

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

After recently installing Alpha2, I have decided that only a couple of things needed to be changed on my box:

Change Gedit for Scite - Scite has a whole load of features but remains lightweight : http://groups.google.com/group/scite-in … web/extras
Change Iceweasel for Google Chrome - Html5 instead of Adobe Flash (Although the new Firefox snaphots are incorporating Html5 soon)

I think that "locate" should be installed as a default cli app as most people use it along with find, grep, sed etc.

I also personally prefer Wicd over Network Manager and Nmapplet. Although so far NM is doing ok on my Alpha2 install.

To be honest, as perfect setups go, CB Sta OB Alpha2 is pretty darn close to perfection for me smile

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc

Archive Managers
File-Roller

Calculator
Speedcrunch

CD burner
K3b

File Managers
Thunar

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Viewers
GPicView

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

IRC Clients
XChat

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Microblogging client
Pino

Music Players
Rythymbox

Network Managers
Wicd

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

System Monitors
Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
Gedit

Torrent Clients
Transmission

Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Firefox

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  • Posts: 275

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Could you add a vote for Elementary to the icon themes from me? smile

Meh. Interested for a Dropbox alternative? Go to https://launchpad.net/tart
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  • Registered: 2009-09-14
  • Posts: 50

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

For photos:
gthumb

For games:
sgt-puzzles

Tex editor (I don't use a word processor anymore. If someone sends me a .doc, I use googledocs, which is even compatible with Office 2007.)
TeXmaker
ViM with ViM-LaTeXsuite

Browser
chromium-browser
epiphany-browser

Online Social
skype
(I don't use any of the programs that come with the default install)

Statistics
R

Text editing
ViM
gedit

For anything else I use what's on the default install (Statler). I would like to emphasize my love for tint2, conky, dmenu and openbox.

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
SLiM

Bootloader
Grub legacy

Archive Managers
File-Roller

Backup Programs
Grsync

Calculator
Speedcrunch

CD burner
xfburn

CD ripper
Sound Juicer

File Managers
Thunar

Fonts
Droid

HTML Editors
Kompozer

Icon themes
Faenza

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Editors (vector)
Inkscape

Image Utilities
agave

Image Viewers
Gthumb

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

IRC Clients
XChat

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Microblogging client
Pino

Music Editor
Audacity

Music Players
Exaile

Music Tagger
Easytag

Network (FTP/SSH)
FileZilla

Network (remote shares)
PyNeighborhood

Network Managers
Wicd

Notes
zim

Office Apps
Abiword
Gnumeric

Password Manager
LastPass addon for Firefox

PDF Reader
Evince

Podcast client
gpodder

RSS reader
Liferea

Search Utility
Catfish

System Monitors
Conky
xfce4-taskmanager

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2
xfce4-panel

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
Gedit

Torrent Clients
Transmission

Video Editor
Avidemux

Video Players
VLC

Video Transcoder
Handbrake

Web Browsers
Firefox