Am 2016-07-04 14:43, schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
Hi everyone,
every now and then, distributions approach us asking which
applications they should ship by default with Plasma, or they complain
about us not providing such information.
Although the Plasma team of course does not have to provide such
information, it may still be helpful also for us because we can try to
make sure that these applications work well in Plasma.
Choosing such applications is not an easy task, but to get things
started, a group of people who were stranded in Bielefeld waiting for
their trains after a meeting sat together to come up with an initial
suggestion. Here is the result:
File manager: Dolphin
Music player: Cantata
I think Cantata is unsuited as it requires an mpd running. Given that
it's out of scope for simple usage.
Video player: VLC
Document viewer: Okular
Here we need to be careful given that there is no release based on Qt 5
(note that some distros ship with it but master has a terrible and
annoying warning in your face dialog about that) and Qt 4 is EOL. Given
that viewing pdfs is something which has been exploited in the past and
is network attackable in worst case, I think it's not a good choice. As
long as there is no Qt5-maintained release I would say it needs to be
evince or none.
Software center: Discover
Communication: Konversation, KDE Telepathy (cautiously, because while
it works well at the moment, it is also looking for a maintainer)
Password storage: KWalletmanager, kwallet-pam
While KWalletmanager gives a good integration in some KDE applications
it's nothing I would recommend as a wallet manager. It is not well
integrated into Plasma, it is not secure, it has a terrible first run
experience with recommending to use a GPG key and then telling you that
you don't have one and does not have any concept of synchronization. In
the area of password storage there are way better solutions available in
the FLOSS world
Hardware support: Skanlite, Print manager
Utilities/system tools: KCalc, KDE Connect, Konsole, KSysguard, Kate,
Kamoso (if a distro wants to ship a webcam app at all)
Office suite: We do not recommend one at the moment
Pim suite: We do not recommend one at the moment.
Browser: We do not recommend one at the moment
for browser I would turn the recommendation the other way: let's
explicitly recommend to not use any of the Qt browsers.
If an applicaiton does not show up in this list, this does of course
not mean we don't like the application or the team behind it, it just
means that we _currently_ don't feel confident to recommend it to
users.
This is our initial proposal, now we'd like to get the input from the
rest of the Plasma team!
Thanks for starting that thread, very important
Cheers
Martin
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