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 )=- _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
