Hey all,
Id like to ask for you all to comment on the programs you all want to be suggested in the software center. I need about 50 and im open to suggestions but ill be trying out the programs to see if they are good. The kind of programs I want to hear is Gimp or cheese..etc. So please comment and let me know.
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Gwibber, Giver, Gnome Do, Thunderbird, Deluge, Opera, VLC, Pidgin, Inkscape, Fusion-Icon, an many more…
Ive never heard of giver or fusion-icon what are they? I wont suggest opera because its proprietary.
thunderbird, openoffice, xmoto, pidgin, vlc, gimp, choqok, cheese, avant-window-navigator
Whats choqok?
how about
inkscape
xournal
agave – a nice colour scheme tool
virtualbox ose
Shutter, qalculate, lifererea, arutha, parcellite, workrave, specto, homebank
I havent heard of any of these programs could you explain them.
Shutter is the best screenshot tool, qalculate! is the best calculator tool, liferea the best rss reader, arutha the best dictionary, parcellite the best clipboard manager, specto the best “any event” notifier, homebank best banking app
GIMP is a must, as it is a great app removed from the default install.
I also suggest Gnome-Do, VLC, Blender, Inkscape, Audacity, Gnu Cash and Wine.
Whats Gnu Cash?
gnucash is an open source accounting software. see http://www.gnucash.org/
Gramps is quite fun once you have a nice collection of family tree information – you can start very small and you will have a big tree before you know it.
Hmmm it sounds interesting but it may be only something a small set of users would like.
Cheese, GIMP, Gnome-Do, OpenShot, ViewNior, the “new” gThumb if it’s ready in time, Inkscape,
Chrome/ium (stable is released January 12th), Qwit (incredibly awesome twitter client), Ubuntu Tweak,
I could go on all day…
I thought ubuntu tweek isnt recommended. Open shot isnt packaged in the archive yet I dont think. Other than those two I agree with the rest.
I think there is a better and easier way we can handle suggestions in the software center. All packages have a debian/control file. Inside this file, besides being able to Depend on and Recommend packages, you can also Suggest a package. Suggested packages are not installed by default. I think the software center should look at the packages that a user has installed, and use the Suggests field in debian/control to recommend packages. In order for this to work, there will need to be a a way for the user to say that they are not interested in a certain suggested package, causing it to not be suggested again.
As you can see, by doing this, the suggestions will be more personalized. If desired, there could be a “Featured Package” that is the same for everyone (similar to how Launchpad has a featured project).
Hmmm interesting idea, so what you are saying is use the suggested or recommended thingy. There would be one problem with that and that is that you would have to change stuff to get it working. I was just thinking of making a list of ubuntu users favorites.
+1 for this idea. To me it seems the “right” way to do these things, although I think some tuning will be needed to stop silly things cropping up. But there should definitely be a distinction between “recommended” which should be personalised and then some “featured” packages so that they can try different packages that aren’t related to the ones they already have.
Completely unrelated: maybe you should put the captcha box above the submit button? I missed it because I didn’t scroll down far enough
Well this is going to be more of a featured apps kinda thing.
Your completely right about the captcha box I did it a few days ago because I was getting attacked by spam and I havent fixed it yet
Hugin, Inkscape, Gimp, Moovida, Jokosher, pitivi, cheese.
Whats Hugin?
Hugin: a program to assemble photos to create panorama
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
fusion-icon is a little program that put an icon in the systray to control Compiz and window manager
playonlinux, warzone2100, chromium b.s.u, chromium,goldendict a must have reference and not only as dictionary with wikipedia integratio, gns3 the virtual network la, screenlets, banshe, con
Alltray, gdesklets, homebank, wammu, phatch, hugin, pdf editor, audacity, easytag, soundconverter, etc..
ttf-liberation gnome-specimen nautilus-open-terminal parcellite deja-dup gtk-recordMyDesktop specto vlc kino avidemux devede comix pitivi midori epiphany-browser icedtea6-plugin
FBReader, simple-ccsm, goldendict (or stardict)
Pidgin Facebook plugin, Start-up manager, Sunbird
Gnome-Do, Docky (once it’s in the repos), Banshee, Pidgin, GIMP, Inkscape, Sound Juicer, gtk-recordmydesktop, Viewnior
If you’re allowing Qt applications:
Music Brainz Picard and Mnemosyne
If you’re allowing developer tools:
Meld
The B-Sides project might be a good starting point: https://launchpad.net/b-sides
Frozen Bubble, GNUcash, and Inkscape. Maybe Mumble, but I haven’t really tested it.
i wouldn’t suggest programs which have the same purpose as the one already installed, e.g. rhythmbox vs. banshee. I’d suggest software that gives functionality not yet included in ubuntu:
sbackup
mendeley
liferea
inkscape
Giver
Blender
phoronix-test-suite
Thunderbird, inkscape, clam av, sysinfo, startup manager,cairo dock, avidemux gtk and glipper.
Gpodder, Kdenlive, Digikam, Pychess, Soundconverter, GCStar, Gparted, Listen, Meld, Deluge, gLabels, Freeciv, Miro, Abiword, Gnumeric, Emesene, Gourmet recipe manager
GIMP, Cheese, Banshee, Shutter, digiKam, Virtualbox, Pidgin, VLC, Inkscape, Scribus, gThumb, Gnome-Do, Mail Notification, Skype, Audacity, Jokosher, Pitivi, Wine, Brasero, ISO Master are a few.
parcellite = glipper but better (clipboard)
deja-dup = sbackup but better (simple backup)
ubuntu-tweaks = in future in report
remmina (ex grcd) = tsclient but better (remote viewer connection/rdp)
Miro, Gwibber, Inkscape, and Terminator.
Miro, Inkscape and Terminator would be great.
Tucan, Gwibber, Pidgin, Transmission, Inkscape, GIMP, Claws-Mail, Exaile, gPodder,
After a fresh install, the apps I usually install are
thunderbird
ubuntu-restricted-extras
build-essential
vim
pavucontrol, paman, and the othe Pulseaudio tools, I usually need them on my laptop to select the right microphone for skype.
Gloobus, GlobalMenu, PdfMod, Docky, Inkscape, Banshee
Creative apps: GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Ardour, Pitivi
Games: Battle for Wesnot, Beneath a Steel Sky, ScummVM
Internet: Thunderbird, (prism for) Facebook, X-chat GNOME
Since gimp and Inkscape have already been mentioned: Emacs, Emacs and Emacs
Deluge – bittorrent client
Chromium -browser
Me TV – for watching DVB-T/S/C
Geany – cool text editor
Wine – we know what that’s for
Gnome Do – allows quick actions just by typing them in
xChat – irc client
Blender – 3d modelling
Hedgewars – cool game like Worms were on windows
CompizConfig Settings Manager – manage compiz effects
gnoMint – Certification Authority Manager
jed – John E. Davis’ editor. It’s a small but very good text-mode editor.
Can substitute Emacs (uses same commands), easily configurable, and very good for programming (has syntax highlighting for C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, HTML, …, hability to compile from inside it and view the gcc errors/warnings in a pane while selecting an error/warning shows you the source line in another pane, so it acts a a poor’s man IDE -but with good results-).
It’s already available in the Ubuntu packages repositories, and I think it can be recommended in software center for the same uses as vi, vim and the likes (but easier and with more functionality), and not so overloaded as Emacs can be.
I used it a lot when I was programming in C/C++ some years ago, and it’s useful for any editing tasks, from changing a few lines in a config file to programming in big projects. Being a text mode editor to be run from a console or an xterminal, it has no graphical fancyness (like gedit e.g.) but does a lot more, not unlike Emacs.
Are you looking for suggestions of packages that are not in the Software Center?
The following packages were suggested but are already available in the software center:
VLC, Gwibber, Cheese, Thunderbird, Terminator, Gnome Do, xChat, Ubuntu Restricted Extras, Banshee,
Shutter, Compiz Config Settings Manager, Chromium BSU (The game not the browser), Inkscape, Virtualbox OSE, Playonlinux, Wine, DigiKam, Brasero, Blender
I didn’t check every package suggested here.
Honestly, as I go through my list of apps that I use a lot, most that are available from the repositories are already in the software center.
Here are the only packages I could come up with:
Discus
Docky (once it’s in the repositories)
Torrentflux
vlc banshee cheese gimp virtualbox
(although the blueprint says that gimp has been unseed but it still is in the install of latest live cd)
I would like to suggest
BloGTK- A desktop blogging tool. It has very simple UI. Good support for blogspot, which many other similar software lacks.
Ubuntu Tweak- Which I think you already know. Its a good all in all configuration tool for Ubuntu.
- A complete theme manager for Ubuntu. It can change every aspect of your desktop, including icons, appearences, metacity theme, wallpaper, Xsplash theme, GRUB theme, and all other related things. With a single selection every thing can be changed.
XBMC media center- Which is the best media center I felt for Ubuntu. i had tried Moovida.
Liferea-Already there in Ubuntu software center.
Simple CCSM-Simple Compiz Config Settings Manager
Gnome Do- Do things as quickly as possible
(but no quicker) with your files, bookmarks,
applications, music, contacts, and more!
Deluge- Bit-torrent client.
and others…
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Those programs should be featured which most (sane) people would install anyway:
*p7zip-full
*gimp
*flash
*java
*restricted codecs
Those are the things which I have to hunt for in synaptics
Those shall be featured that most people woud install anyway:
*p7zip-full
*Flash
*Java
*Gimp
*Adobe Reader
*Those gnome games removed for lucid
*Thunderbird
*Restriced Codecs (if possible)?
For Graphics :
Blender
Gimp
inkscape
My-paint !!!!!! (very powerfull for painters)
http://forum.intilinux.com/mypaint-finished-work/david-revoy-%28-deevad-%29-mypaint-sketchbook-gallery-brushes/
http://durian.blender.org/news/2d-developement-news-mypaint-v08-soon/
http://durian.blender.org/videos/tutorial-painting-time-lapse-by-david-revoy/
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=9
AWN (for dock);
Pino (for Twitter);
Openshot (for video-editing);
Chromium (for browser);
Thunderbird (for email)
wicd (I’d like to have it by default……)
chromium (even if it has problems after some update, but I use it every day and is great!)
openshot
I’d like virtualbox but I think it’s proprietary
By the way…..it would be beautiful to have the possibility to choose some program to install during the installation process of the OS (I imagine something like: ‘Choose your browser: Firefox, Chromium, Opera etc’)
also some programs for studying:
for example:
octave
maxima
scilab
i know also mathematica, used onl once, but only th trial version…imho it could be a very good choice
including it in th oftware center (at least the trial version), but I think you have to contact the developer of that software cause it isnt’ open source…
These are the applications I recommend in addition to the default apps included with ubuntu:
Media and Video:
AcetoneISO
banshee media player
jokesher audio editor
movidia media center
pitivi video editor
VLC
Programming:
Scilab
Netbeans
Monodevelop
Bluefish
Office:
Virtualbox
Internet:
Liferea Feed Reader
Remmina Remote Desktop Manager
Filezilla
Pidgin
Wireshark
Graphics:
Dia
Gimp
Games:
gbrainy
PlayOnLinux
Secret Maryo Chronicles
Other:
ClamAV
Back In Time
Gnome Do
CompizConfig Settings Manager
AptOnCD
wine
MyPaint
Gimp
VLC
Brasero
Extreme Tux Racer
Exaile, PlayOnLinux
Gnome-Do, Docky, gThumb, Google Chrome, Dropbox, Banshee, OpenShot, Boxee
forgot to mention the most important application which is Ubuntu Tweak