On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 7:57 pm, Debajit Adhikary wrote: > I suppose something like this has been posted in the past, but > nevertheless, there is so much obscure, neat and useful software out > there, that I just wanted to know what you like and what you don't and > perhaps a why. (Not that I plan to start a flame war or something) > > If you do reply, please add any other suitable categories. > > -------------------------------------- > Here's my favourites list: > > Image viewer: GQView > (i find it very fast -- and the "progressive" image rendering is great > for large images)
Kuickshow/Konqueror tooltip preview. I never need additional app. for image preview. > Movie mlayer: MPlayer > (Opens everything. Very good speed and usability) No argument. But better to use in conjunction with a frontend such as kmplayer or kaffeine.. > Text editor: Kate (KDE 3.3) > (I used KWrite earlier... Kate now seems more lightweight and fast and > feature rich) KWrite and Kate has same text editor component but Kate has multiple file capabilities.. > > Music player: XMMS 1.2.10 > (Speed, Queue/Unqueue "dynamic playlists", usability -- Amarok's > equalizer is intimidating to say the least) Juk. > PIM: Kontact Same here but it is mail+news at the moment for me. > Ripper/Music encoder: bladeenc + GRip audiocd:/ in konqueror > Game: So far Quake III Arena Demo on Linux > (That's the only good 3d game i could get running on Linux. Has anyone > run Unreal Tournament on Linux?) ksirtet/kmines/klines/kbounce(Don't tell me.. I know that the list is lame..;-) Not a vivid gamer myself) > "Desktop environment": KDE 3.3 > (Feature-rich, good and easy configurability) Yes. Use with a light theme and colour such as plastik/plastik and it is damn fast.. > > Distro: SuSE 9.2 > (Takes care of the little details in an OS... KDE seems pretty fast... > excellent fonts and multimedia and hardware support etc. all out of > the box... needs little tweaking for what should already be there) Slackware. Get a CD, reinstall in flat 25 minutes, restore the data in 5 minutes and forget for next 6-8 months. > Web Browser: Firefox 1.0 > (Maybe this would be a unamimous decision for most...) Konqueror. The font rendering is God damn awesome.. > Image editor: Gimp 2.0 > (Has anyone run Photoshop -- any version at all -- over wine in Linux? > I would like to know how you did it) No idea.. Why edit a image? See it and leave it..;-) > Video Editor: Still looking for one Office suite: OO1.1.3 with KDE support(Yes I have that 80MB tarball) Command shell: konsole Multiple tabs. Too good.. CD burning App: K3B Best I ever used. Nero looks like mainframe to it.. Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
