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Topic: Vote for your preferred apps

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
[31] startx/xinitrc
[25] SLiM
[17] GDM
[1] KDM

Bootloader
[29] Grub legacy
[19] Grub2
[2] GAG

Archive Managers
[48] File-Roller
[15] xarchiver
[6] atool (cli)
[4] Squeeze
[1] bsdtar (cli)

Backup Programs
[7] Remastersys
[4] Grsync
[2] rsync
[1] Image for Linux
[1] Lucky Backup
[1] NSsbackup (Not So Simple Backup suite)
[1] Simple Backup

Calculator
[13] Speedcrunch
[7] gcalctool
[5] xcalc
[2] Qalculate-gtk

CD burner
[9] K3b
[5] xfburn
[3] Brasero

CD ripper
[6] Rubyripper
[6] Sound Juicer
[3] RipperX
[2] abcde (cli)
[1] grip

File Managers
[62] Thunar
[38] PCManFM
[13] mc (cli)
[4] gnome-commander
[3] Nautilus
[3] Rox-Filer
[2] Dolphin
[2] vifm (cli)
[1] emelFM2
[1] worker
[1] xfe

Fonts
[13] Droid
[7] Liberation
[2] Gentium
[2] Raleway
[2] Schoolboy text
[2] Terminus
[2] ttf-vlgothic
[1] FreeMono

Games
[4] pychess
[3] Gnome Sudoku
[3] nethack (cli)
[2] ctris (cli)
[2] Fish Fillets NG
[2] Nexuiz
[2] ninvaders (cli)
[2] OpenTTD
[2] pacman4console (cli)
[1] airstrike
[1] armegetron
[1] Battle for Wesnoth
[1] BurgerSpace
[1] Bygfoot
[1] D1X-Rebirth
[1] Frozen Bubble
[1] hedgewars
[1] Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
[1] Simutrans
[1] titanion
[1] torus-trooper
[1] Warzone 2100
[1] xsane
[1] xshisen

HTML Editors
[6] Kompozer
[2] Bluefish

Icon themes
[3] GNOME-Colors
[2] Humanity
[1] ACYL
[1] Elementary

Image Editors
[68] GIMP
[15] ImageMagick (cli)
[4] Digikam
[4] ufraw
[3] fotoxx
[2] mtpaint
[1] dcraw

Image Editors (vector)
[36] Inkscape
[1] Tgif

Image Utilities
[13] gcolor2
[12] agave
[5] Phatch

Image Viewers
[41] GPicView
[12] Gthumb
[9] Viewnior
[6] Comix
[5] GQview/geeqie
[4] Feh
[4] GTKam
[4] Mirage
[2] Gwenview
[2] Ristretto
[1] Digikam
[1] Shotwell

Instant Messengers
[43] Pidgin
[16] Skype
[7] Empathy
[3] Emesene
[2] centericq (cli)
[2] finch (cli)
[1] centerIM (cli)
[1] Gajim

IRC Clients
[32] XChat
[12] irssi (cli)
[1] weechat (cli)

Mail Client
[27] Thunderbird
[14] Claws mail
[4] mutt (cli)
[2] Evolution
[2] Simple Mail add-on for Firefox
[2] urlview (cli)
[1] pine (cli)

Microblogging client
[13] Pino
[1] Hootsuite
[1] twidge (cli)

Music Editor
[25] Audacity
[1] Traverso

Music Players
[26] moc (cli)
[24] Rythymbox
[17] Audacious
[9] Banshee
[6] Exaile
[6] ncmpcpp (cli)
[6] QuodLibet
[3] Sonata
[2] aqualung
[2] cplay (cli)
[2] Songbird
[2] xfmedia
[1] aTunes
[1] Decibel Audio Player
[1] gmusicbrowser
[1] guayadeque
[1] Herrie (cli)
[1] LXMusic
[1] QMMP
[1] vitunes (cli)
[1] XMMS

Music Tagger
[12] Easytag
[3] Ex Falso

Network (FTP/SSH)
[23] FileZilla
[22] ssh (cli)
[9] gftp
[7] scp (cli)
[5] ftp (cli)
[4] telnet (cli)
[2] FireFTP add-on for Firefox
[2] sshfs (cli)

Network (remote shares)
[5] Gigolo
[3] xsmbrowser

Network Managers
[51] Network-Manager
[30] Wicd
[1] iwconfig

Notes
[5] xpad
[3] zim
[2] Notecase
[2] Tomboy
[1] Basket
[1] Gjots
[1] Gnote
[1] KeepNote
[1] Tuxcards

Office Apps
[54] OpenOffice.org
[39] Abiword
[29] Gnumeric
[7] Scribus
[5] LaTeX
[5] pyroom
[3] TexMaker
[2] Xfce dictionary
[2] Xmind
[1] Freemind
[1] KOffice
[1] R
[1] SoftMaker Office
[1] ViM-LaTeXsuite
[1] xetex

Password Manager
[5] KeepassX
[2] LastPass addon for Firefox
[1] Figaro's Password Manager (FPM)

PDF Reader
[55] Evince
[14] ePDFView
[3] Foxit
[3] xpdf
[2] evince-lite
[2] pdf2text
[1] okular

Podcast client
[6] gpodder
[5] bashpodder

RSS reader
[6] newsbeuter (cli)
[4] Liferea
[3] RSSowl
[2] RSS plugin for Claws Mail
[2] Sage add-on for Firefox

Search Utility
[17] Catfish
[1] Gnome Search Tool
[1] Recoll
[1] Searchmonkey

System Information
[13] inxi (cli)
[11] Hardinfo
[5] Sysinfo
[4] lshw (cli)
[1] hwinfo (cli)

System Monitors
[83] Conky
[44] htop (cli)
[5] lxtask
[4] xfce4-taskmanager
[2] sensors (cli)
[1] Gnome System Monitor
[1] pcstats (cli)
[1] ps (cli)
[1] top (cli)

System Panels/Menus/Trays
[68] Tint2
[6] xfce4-panel
[5] adeskbar
[4] bmpanel
[4] lxpanel
[2] adesklauncher
[2] adeskmenu
[2] marchobmenu
[1] bmpanel2

Terminal Emulators
[66] Terminator
[6] urvxt
[6] xterm
[5] Tilda
[4] Sakura
[3] Lxterminal
[2] Yakuake
[1] aterm
[1] xfce4-terminal

Text Editors
[47] Gedit
[36] nano (cli)
[29] Leafpad
[20] Geany
[17] Vim (cli)
[3] SciTE
[2] Gvim
[2] Mousepad
[1] Ghex
[1] Kate
[1] Komodo Edit
[1] MadEdit

Torrent Clients
[49] Transmission
[14] rtorrent (cli)
[11] Deluge
[2] Ktorrent
[1] BitTorrent
[1] btdownloadcurses (cli)

Video Editor
[13] Avidemux
[2] PiTiVi
[1] Cinelerra CV
[1] LiVES

Video Players
[68] VLC
[11] MPlayer
[8] GNOME-MPlayer
[8] SMPlayer
[5] Totem
[2] Parole
[1] Miro

Video Transcoder
[10] DeVeDe
[10] Handbrake
[6] ffmpeg (cli)
[2] OGMRip
[1] ffwin
[1] Transmageddon

Web Browsers
[57] Firefox
[23] Google Chrome | [11] Chromium
[14] Iceweasel
[11] Midori
[9] Opera
[6] elinks (cli)
[5] SRware Iron
[4] w3m (cli)
[3] Swiftfox
[2] Arora
[2] Epiphany
[2] Lynx (cli)
[2] Seamonkey
[2] uzbl
[1] dillo
[1] Links2 (cli)
[1] surf
[1] Swiftweasel

Other
[37] Gparted
[20] Unetbootin
[16] Gdebi
[15] volwheel
[11] dmenu
[11] Dropbox
[11] Parcellite
[9] Nitrogen
[8] Truecrypt
[8] Xscreensaver
[6] baobab
[6] build-essential
[5] BleachBit
[4] Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox
[4] cowsay
[4] pysdm
[4] Pytyle
[4] Seahorse
[4] Wine
[3] Alarm-clock
[3] Boot Up Manager (BUM)
[3] Gnome-Do
[3] Gufw
[3] screen
[2] FBReader
[2] Google Earth
[2] gscan2pdf
[2] gvolwheel
[2] Pan
[2] Sunbird
[1] AlsaEqual
[1] Anjuta
[1] bibus
[1] caffeine
[1] cdcat
[1] CeltX
[1] deborphan
[1] eee-control
[1] GPointingDeviceSettings
[1] gsmartcontrol
[1] gwget
[1] gwhere
[1] JACK
[1] jucy
[1] K9copy
[1] KeyholeTV
[1] OpenVPN
[1] radiotray
[1] SCIM
[1] Screenruler
[1] smartmontools
[1] smixer
[1] syndaemon
[1] tkdiff
[1] TS Client
[1] UbuntuOne
[1] VirtualBox
[1] volumeicon
[1] Wattospm
[1] Wine-Doors
[1] wpro


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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Good idea. My prefs are not much different from yours.

Diplay/Login Managers: startx/xinitrc
Archive Managers: atool on cli, xarchiver on gui
File Managers: Thunar
Image Viewers: GPicView
Instant Messengers: Pidgin
IRC Clients: XChat
Microblogging client: Pino
Music Players: QuodLibet
Video Players: GNOME-MPlayer
Network Managers: Wicd
Office Apps: Abiword, Gnumeric
Image editor: GIMP on gui, ImageMagick on cli
PDF Reader: ePDFView
System Monitors: Conky on desktop, htop on cli, lxtask on gui
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: Leafpad on gui, nano on cli
Torrent Clients: Transmission
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): Filezilla on gui, ftp/telnet/ssh/scp on cli (duh)
Web Browsers: Firefox or similar on gui, w3m on cli
Mail client: I don't use any, so I should not vote
Extras: Qalculate-gtk, Grsync, Hardinfo

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers: startx/xinitrc
Archive Managers: atool on cli, xarchiver on gui
File Managers: Nautilus (I know it's a little heavy, but still prefer it)
Image Viewers: GPicView
Instant Messengers: Pidgin
IRC Clients: irssi
Microblogging client: no opinion on this one
Music Players: moc, don't really like any of the gui ones
Video Players: totem
Network Managers: NM
Office Apps: OO
Image editor: GIMP on gui, ImageMagick on cli
PDF Reader: ePDFView
System Monitors: Conky on desktop, htop on cli
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2 (I usually use AWN, but it's not a good default)
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: geany
Torrent Clients: Transmission, rtorrent
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): no opinion really
Web Browsers: Firefox or similar on gui, w3m on cli
Mail client: I don't use any, so I should not vote
Extras: baobab, seahorse (I use it alot)

you can tell my preferences are a little heavier than most, except the cli stuff. Just my personal preference though.

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I think this might get redundant fast.

Diplay/Login Managers
-startx/xinitrc

Archive Managers
-atool (cli)
-xarchiver (gui)

File Managers
Thunar or Pcman,,,im not picky here.

Image Viewers
-GPicView

Instant Messengers
-Pidgin

IRC Clients
-XChat

Music Players
Rythymbox

Network Managers
-Wicd

Office Apps
-Abiword
-Gnumeric

PDF Reader
-ePDFView

System Monitors
-Conky
-htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
-Tint2

Terminal
Terminator

Text Editors
-Geany (gui)
-nano (cli)

Torrent Clients
-Transmission

Video Players
-GNOME-MPlayer

Web Browsers
-Firefox

  • Erik
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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Here's mine:

NE = No Experience

Diplay/Login Managers: NE
Archive Managers: NE
File Managers: PossiblyThunar? At least something where the search files function actually finds stuff!
Image Viewers: GPicView
Instant Messengers: Pidgin
IRC Clients: XChat
Microblogging client: NE
Music Players: Rhythm box is OK, I like that it immediately notices changes in the library (after renaming a file for example)
Video Players: GNOME-MPlayer or VLC, something that eats everything
Network Managers: Wicd
Office Apps: Abiword, Gnumeric, TexMaker, Scribus
Image editor: GIMP + Inkscape
PDF Reader: evince is the only one I have experience with, works fine for me!
System Monitors: Conky
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: Gedit, or something else able to run scripts!
Torrent Clients: Transmission
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): NE
Web Browsers: FireFox or Chrome
Mail client: Something fast, HTML capable: thunderbird 3 perhaps?
Extras: Hardinfo

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I removed the categories on which I have no preference.

Archive Managers - no preference, but used to file roller
File Managers - Thunar
Image Editors - GIMP (gui), ImageMagick (cli), Tgif (gui)
Music Players - MoC
Office Apps - OpenOffice minus Pulse
PDF Reader - ePDFView
System Monitors - Conky
System Panels/Menus/Trays - Tint2
Terminal Emulators - Terminator
Text Editors - nano (cli), Gedit
Torrent Clients - Transmission
Video Players - Totem
Web Browsers - Firefox (gui), Links2 (cli)

Last edited by pvsage (2010-03-14 00:51:39)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Here is mine
Diplay/Login Managers: NE
Archive Managers: NE
File Managers: pcmanfm or xfe
Image Viewers: NE
Instant Messengers:NE
IRC Clients: irssi
Microblogging client: NE
Music Players: moc or audacious
Video Players: MPlayer
Network Managers: NM
Office Apps: NE
Image editor: NE
PDF Reader: evince
System Monitors: Conky,htop
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: Leafpad
Torrent Clients: rtorrent
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): NE
Web Browsers:SRware Iron browser
Mail client: thunderbird 3

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Tgif should go under vector graphics with Inkscape, by the way.  (I like Inkscape, but as I've mentioned before, it doesn't fit on my netbook screen.)  I think I'm the only person on the forum who even uses Tgif...

Last edited by pvsage (2010-03-14 01:05:33)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers: startx/xinitrc
Archive Managers: No preference
File Managers: Thunar
Image Viewers: Feh
Instant Messengers: empathy
IRC Clients: irssi
Microblogging client: Pino(gui), twidge(cli)
Music Players: xfmedia(gui), moc(cli)
Video Players: vlc
Network Managers: n/a
Office Apps: Abiword, Gnumeric
Image editor: ImageMagick(cli)
PDF Reader: n/a
System Monitors: Conky, htop(cli)
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator, tilda
Text Editors: Leafpad(gui), nano(cli), vim(cli)
Torrent Clients: Transmission
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): n/a
Web Browsers: Firefox(gui), w3m(cli)
Mail client: mutt, urlview
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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

I put in "No preference" in any instance where it was either an area I do not have enough experience in to have an opinion, or if it is a piece of software I do not regularly use.

Display/Login Managers: No preference
Archive Managers: atool on cli, xarchiver on gui
File Managers: Thunar
Image Viewers: No preference
Instant Messengers: Pidgin
IRC Clients: No preference
Microblogging client: No preference
Music Players: Audacious
Video Players: VLC
Network Managers: Network-Manager
Office Apps: Abiword, Gnumeric
Image editor: mtpaint
PDF Reader: Evince
System Monitors: Conky
System Panels/Menus/Trays: XFCE 4 Panel
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: Leafpad on gui, nano on cli
Torrent Clients: No preference
File transfer client (FTP/SSH): Filezilla
Web Browsers: Swiftfox
Mail client: No preference
Extras: Grub as opposed to Grub 2

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
-KDM

Archive Managers
-Squeeze

File Managers
-Thunar

Image Viewers
-Digikam in tandem with Comix

Image editor
-Digikam

Instant Messengers
-No pref

IRC Clients
-Seamonkey (chatzilla)

Music Players
-VLC

Network Managers
-Wicd

Office Apps
-Koffice

PDF Reader
-xpdf

System Monitors
-Conky
-htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
-Tint2

Terminal
-Terminator

Text Editors
-Gedit (gui)
-nano (cli)

Torrent Clients
-Deluge

Video Players
-VLC

Web Browsers
-Seamonkey

Mail
-Seamonkey

(I know I like QT apps, but, that is my preference, just add kdeinit to autostart.sh and everything is cool)

Last edited by Val_B (2010-03-14 01:50:21)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Archive Managers
File-Roller

File Managers
PCManFM

Image Editors (vector)
Inkscape

Instant Messengers
Pidgin
Skype

IRC Clients
XChat

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Music Players
Songbird

Network Managers
Wicd

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

System Monitors
Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
nano
Gedit

Torrent Clients
rtorrent

Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Firefox

Other
Grub legacy
UNetbootin

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Just realising I left this out.

Window manager : Openbox

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

FYI Val_B, I think you meant to say KDE not QT. They are different.

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Display/Login Managers
-startx/xinitrc

Window Managers
-Fluxbox (no XML for configuration, just plain text)
-Openbox

File Managers
-Thunar
-mc

FTP/SSH
-ftp
-ssh
-scp

Image Editors
-GIMP
-ImageMagick

Image Viewers
-GPicView
-Feh

Instant Messengers
-Skype

IRC Clients
-irssi

Mail Client
-Thunderbird
-mutt
-urlview

Music Players/Editors
-Rhythmbox
-cplay
-Audacity

Network Managers
-Network-Manager (no mobile broadband support in 'wicd' yet!)

Office Apps
-OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader
-Evince
-pdf2text

Podcast client
-bashpodder

RSS Newsreader
-newsbeuter

System Monitors
-Conky
-htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
-Tint2

Terminal Emulators
-xterm

Text Editors
-nano
-Gedit

Torrent Clients
-Transmission

Video Players
-VLC
-MPlayer

Web Browsers
-Firefox
-ELinks

Other
-Grub legacy (instead of grub2)
-Unetbootin
-HandBrake
-screen

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Display/Login Managers
SLIM
Archive Managers
File-Roller
File Managers
Thunar
FTP/SSH
CLI FTP, SSH, SCP and telnet (duh)
Image Editors
GIMP
Image Editors (vector)
Inkscape
Image Viewers
Viewnior
Instant Messengers
Pidgin
IRC Clients
Pidgin does IRC, so I don't see the need.
Mail Client
Claws Mail
Microblogging client
Pino
Music Players
ncmpcpp
Network Managers
network-manager (wicd is a bit finnicky at my campus)
Office Apps
OpenOffice.org
PDF Reader
Evince
Podcast client
I don't do this, so I wouldn't know
RSS reader
Keep it simple.  Use the interface that comes with most web browsers
System Monitors
conky and htop, though the latter isn't necessary, and can be replaced with a plain old top
System Panels/Menus/Trays
bmpanel2
Terminal Emulators
Tilda
Text Editors
Nano, Vim and Geany
Torrent Clients
Deluge
Video Players
VLC
Video Transcoder
I don't do this, so I wouldn't know
Web Browsers
Arora, Swiftfox
Other
speedcrunch, baobab, catfish, inxi

Last edited by kmason (2010-03-14 03:31:02)

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Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc

Archive Managers
File-Roller

Calculator
X comes with one! How many times do we have to go through this? wink

File Managers
Thunar

FTP/SSH
ssh (cli)

Image Editors
GIMP -- would prefer to not have it come with an editor to keep dl size down, but if I must choose...

Image Viewers
GPicView

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Microblogging client
Pino

Music Players
moc

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader
Evince

System Monitors
Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2 -- you people finally converted me tongue

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
Leafpad

Video Players
VLC

Web Browsers
Google Chrome - way faster than firefox

Other
I would like to use my available other vote to add a extra vote for Network Manager because wicd and I dont get along - in all serriousness, I cant think of anything not covered that "needs" to be included

  • From: Santa Fe, NM, USA
  • Registered: 2009-09-14
  • Posts: 1,349

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc


Archive Managers
File-Roller


Calculator
Speedcrunch

File Managers
Thunar
PCManFM


FTP/SSH
FileZilla


Image Editors
GIMP


Image Editors (vector)
Inkscape


Image Viewers
GPicView


Instant Messengers
Pidgin


IRC Clients
XChat


Mail Client
Thunderbird


Music Players
Audacious2


Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
Abiword

PDF Reader
Evince

System Monitors
Conky
htop


System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2
bmpanel
xfce4-panel

Terminal Emulators
Terminator
Tilda


Text Editors
nano (cli)
Gedit


Torrent Clients
Transmission
Deluge


Video Players
[8] VLC
SMPlayer


Video Transcoder
Handbrake

Web Browsers
Firefox
IceWeasel
Midori



Other
Grub legacy (instead of grub2)
Unetbootin

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-03-14 06:08:26)

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  • Registered: 2009-05-13
  • Posts: 161

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc or Slim is fine. Im not a big QT fan'

Archive Managers
File-Roller

Window Manager Managers
Openbox

File Managers
Thunar

FTP/SSH
ssh (cli)

Image Editors
GIMP

Image Viewers
GPicView

Instant Messengers
Pidgin

Mail Client
Claws

Microblogging client
dont care

Music Players
moc <--- a must have big_smile

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
Abiword

PDF Reader
Evince

System Information
inxi

System Monitors
Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
Terminator

Text Editors
Leafpad, Gedit, or Geany is fine with me, it aint like there a big down load or anything.

Torrent Clients
rTorrent

Video Players
Mplayer

Web Browsers
Google Chrome or FireFox is fine with me.

  • From: California
  • Registered: 2009-07-23
  • Posts: 65

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers - SLiM
Archive Managers - xarchiver
Calculator - xcalc
File Managers - PCManFM, mc
FTP/SSH - ftp
Image Editors GIMP
Music Players - moc
Network Managers - Network-Manager
Office Apps - Abiword, OpenOffice.org
PDF Reader - Evince
Podcast client - bashpodder
System Monitors - Conky
System Panels/Menus/Trays - Tint2
Terminal Emulators - Terminator, xterm
Text Editors - Vim
Torrent Clients - rtorrent
Video Players - VLC
Video Transcoder - Devede
Web Browsers - Google Chrome, elinks

  • nore
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  • From: 62° 53′ N
  • Registered: 2009-11-28
  • Posts: 80

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Window manager : Openbox
Diplay/Login Managers: I'd prefere SLiM but startx/xinitrc will do; SLiM could also handle wallpaper instead of Nitrogen.
Archive Managers: xarchiver
Calculator: no preference
File Managers: Nautilus, but both PCManFM and Thunar will do.
FTP/SSH: gftp
Image Editors: GIMP + ImageMagick
Image Editors (vector): Inkscape
Image Viewers: GPicView
Instant Messengers: no preference
IRC Clients: no preference
Mail Client:  no preference
Microblogging client: no preference
Music Players: Rythymbox
Network Managers: Network-Manager
Office Apps: OpenOffice.org; I'll install Scribus myself, but I can't see, why it should be included in default installation.
PDF Reader: Evince
Podcast client: no preference
RSS reader: no preference
Search Utility: no preference
System Information: no preference
System Monitors: Conky
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: Terminator
Text Editors: Vim + Gedit
Torrent Clients: no preference
Video Players: VLC
Video Transcoder: no preference
Web Browsers: Firefox/Iceweasel
Other: grub2 (it's time to move on)

Whatever the final choices will be, I trust that #! keeps simple and functional: utilitas, venustas, firmitas.

  • Registered: 2009-01-30
  • Posts: 2

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc

Archive Managers
File-Roller

File Managers
PCManFM

Image Viewers
GPicView

IRC Clients
XChat

Mail Client
Thunderbird

Music Players
ncmpcpp

Network Managers
Network-Manager

Office Apps
Abiword

PDF Reader
ePDFView

System Monitors
htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2

Terminal Emulators
urxvt

Text Editors
Leafpad

Torrent Clients
Transmission

Video Players
GNOME-MPlayer

Web Browsers
Firefox

  • Hanna
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  • From: Finland
  • Registered: 2008-11-29
  • Posts: 752

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Archive Managers File-Roller

File Managers Thunar

FTP/SSH FileZilla

Image Editors GIMP

Image Viewers GPicView

Instant Messengers Pidgin, Skype

IRC Clients irssi (cli)

Mail Client Claws mail

Microblogging client Pino

Music Players QuodLibet, ncmpcpp + mpd

Network Managers Network-Manager

Office Apps OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader Evince

Podcast client gpodder

RSS reader newsbeuter (cli)

Search Utility Catfish

System Monitors Conky

System Panels/Menus/Trays bmpanel2

Terminal Emulators urxvt

Text Editors nano (cli) / Gedit

Torrent Clients Transmission

Video Players Totem

Web Browsers Firefox

HANNA (without "h" in the end) likes green and #! smile
Also know as ultraturquoise online / #! last.fm / #! DeviantART / U / Q
  • Registered: 2009-11-03
  • Posts: 1,612

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

Diplay/Login Managers
startx/xinitrc

Archive Managers
I don't mind anything as long as it works.

Calculator
No preference, whatever you like.

File Managers
Thunar + Midnight Commander (cli)
...special mention should go to Vifm

FTP/SSH
FileZilla(gui) or scp (cli)

Image Editors
Gimp & Inkscape
I'll probably use Statler on my netbook, so I'll just purge whatever image editors are included.

Image Viewers
GPicView for pics, Comix for comics/manga

Instant Messengers
Pidgin + Skype

IRC Clients
XChat (gui) + irssi (cli)

Mail Client
MUTT (cli).... It's all I need

Microblogging client
No preference.... whatever works for you

Music Players
Moc (cli server) + Cplay (cli)
I'd be extremely happy if Statler included AlsaEqual... Pretty please!!

Network Managers
Whatever works better with my crappy Broadcom wireless (currently Network Manager)

Office Apps
None... I'll just purge everything and stick to basic text editors

PDF Reader
The lightest/fastest available

Podcast client
No preference

RSS reader
newsbeuter (cli)

Search Utility
I remember where I keep all my files... not needed.

System Information
Hardinfo + inxi

System Monitors
Conky + htop

System Panels/Menus/Trays
Tint2, obviously

Terminal Emulators
Terminator, definitely

Text Editors
Leafpad + Vim (cli)

Torrent Clients
rtorrent (cli)

Video Players
VLC

Video Transcoder
Not needed... whatever the people want

Web Browsers
First choice : Google Chrome + elinks (cli)
.... only when you have used Chrome and gone back to Firefox, will you realize how damn slow Firefox is.
Second tier : Midori + Uzbl
Don't even bother with Iceweasel >.>

Other
Unetbootin is a must for me(netbook user here)

Point & Squirt
  • From: Montréal, France
  • Registered: 2009-01-15
  • Posts: 679

Re: Vote for your preferred apps

hi anon smile  good thread idea,

Diplay/Login Managers: slim
Archive Managers: file-roller
File Managers: Rox-Filer of course big_smile (because it's faster than others when well configured)
Image Viewers: GThumb (because of the rename/convert feature)
IRC Clients: irssi
Music Players: mocp
Music Editor: audacity, easytag
CD ripper: grip
Video Players: SMPlayer
Video Editors: avidemux
Network Managers: Wicd
Office Apps: OpenOffice
Image editor: GIMP, Inkscape, Phatch, agave, gcolor2
PDF Reader: ePDFView
System Monitors: Conky on desktop, htop & pcstats on cli,
System Panels/Menus/Trays: Tint2
Terminal Emulators: urxvt
Text Editors: (g)vim
Torrent Client: Transmission
Web Browsers: Firefox, Iron, Elinks
Games: pacman4console, ctris, ninvaders
Search tool: catfish
Extra: pytyle, dmenu, parcellite, screen, cowsay wink

... and some ADComp apps will be good too smile

Last edited by arpinux (2010-03-14 11:40:59)

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