> I will not switch to such environment unless it will provide me > alternatives for all basic tools I am using now. I can provide a list, > however I do not think that it belongs to this topic. Perhaps to some > other thread with contents of the OS... Or in other words, I would > welcome kind of transition period where I would be using Etoile with my > current environment and later switch to Etoile based OS.
Below is what I personally would need for a complete replacement of my system at home. We might want to compile a list of these for what each of us would require, figure out the overlap, and start building services or applets/widgets that we would actually use -- and perhaps delegate coding responsibilities, if we want to go that route. - Raster image editor (Photoshop, or perhaps Pixen) - Vector image editor (Illustrator, Freehand) - Text editor with syntax highlighting (SubEthaEdit) - Flash editor (Could be done with a modified text editor -- I've been working on a replacement) - Font manager - Photo manager - Music player/manager - Movie player - Email client - Web browser - Chat client - FTP client - Archiving tools (zip, tar) - PDF reader What I need is fairly non-typical. For "average" home users, I would offer up the following list: - Web browser - Email client - Chat client - Word processor - Music player/manager - Movie player - Simple image editor - Photo manager - PDF reader - Selection of games Anyone else care to add to the list? J.
