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List:       gobolinux-devel
Subject:    Re: [gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-users] A few uneasy questions...
From:       Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon () kymatica ! com>
Date:       2007-02-28 23:13:23
Message-ID: 45E60C93.3070507 () kymatica ! com
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mpb wrote:
> Hi,
...snip...
> And in the short term I believe that Gobo should certainly NOT try to
> compete with Ubuntu in terms of ItJustWorks usability.
> 
> But stability is always desirable.

I would love to see Gobo becoming:

* stable - let even releases be focused on bug fixes and odd releases on
new features.

* hackable - keep solutions simple and plain, shellscripts and ascii, etc..

* usable - sane default solutions for everything a typical desktop
wants. and personally, I'd very much like one ROX/GTK solution and one
KDE/QT solution, they could be split as two alternative add-ons for a
non-desktop base, and one could release these as separate live CD images.

Regarding usability, here's some things that comes to mind:
- bug free installation (goes under 'stability')
- good hardware detection and support
- nice list of "recommended" or default apps for common tasks
- GUI frontends for admin tools
- device handling (hal, dbus, pmount, ivman or rox's DeviceHandler)
- printing (thanks lucas! =)

I would gladly help out with a ROX/GTK alternative.

regarding "good apps" I've made a list of my personal favorite apps
listed by category:

Audio/Music
* Lilypond - music notation
* XMMS - simple player (bad thing: gtk 1.x)
* Quod Libet - music library manager
* Audacity - wave editor
* Traverso - multitrack audio workstation
* Ardour - multitrack audio workstation
* CDRDAO - cd audio burning
* CDParanoia - hi-fi CD audio ripping
* QaRecord - simple stereo recorder
* KaConnect - ALSA seq connection
* JACK - audio connection kit (used by other apps)
* FluidSynth - soundfont player
* Baudline - audio analyzer (spectrogram, scope, etc...)
* GaMix - ALSA mixer
* LAME - mp3 encoder
* Flac - lossless audio encoder/decoder
* Scala - microtonal utility
* PureData - graphical dsp programming environment
* ChucK - textual dsp programming environment
* sox - cmdline soundfile processer and converter
* Aqualung - nice audio player

Media
* GStreamer - patchable streaming multimedia framework
* MPlayer - video and DVD player
* Graveman - GUI frontend to burn/copy CD's and DVD's.

Desktop
* ROX-Filer - desktop environment and file manager
* OroboROX - window manager
* PyPanel - taskbar
* LxPanel - taskbar, pager and systray
* ROX-Session - rox session manager

Internet
* FireFox - web browser
* Thunderbird - mail client
* wget - cmdline downloader
* yafc - console mode ftp client
* Gaim - IRC and ICQ client
* Skype - IP telephony
* VPNC - cisco compatible virtual private network client
* MuHTTPD - very small http server

Graphics
* Gimp - image editor
* Feh - image viewer
* GhostView - ps/pdf viewer
* Xpdf - pdf viewer
* InkScape - vector graphics editor
* ImageMagick - cmdline image processing and conversion
* Xaos - fractal zoomer
* GraphViz - automagical graph layout
* PSUtils - postscript utilities

Word processing
* OpenOffice - office suit
* Lout - document formatting system (typography)
* AsciiDoc - wiki format to html/latex/lout/etc...
* TeXmacs - interactive wysiwyg doc editor
* NEdit - text editor
* Zim - personal desktop wiki / notepad
* FontForge - font editor and conversion

Other
* SunBird - iCal compatible calender

System
* HAL - hardware abstraction layer
* Ivman - automounter
* Pmount - user mount utility
* D-Bus - Interprocess communication
* NTPClient - internet time protocol client
* Unison - file synch utility
* AVFS-fuse - virtual fs for archives, etc...
* Valgrind - memory check debugging tool
* Nasal - very nice dynamically typed C-like scripting language
* GKrellM - hardware and system monitoring

-- 
/Jonatan    -=( http://kymatica.com )=-

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