On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:57, 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 and at times Gthumb... Easy to view
multiple images at once...
> Movie mlayer: MPlayer
> (Opens everything. Very good speed and usability)
My feelings exactly.. especially if you are using a frontend like
kplayer/kmplayer
> Text editor: Kate (KDE 3.3)
> (I used KWrite earlier... Kate now seems more lightweight and fast and
> feature rich)
Bingo. Kate has an MDI and has everything you need from a text editor.
> Music player: XMMS 1.2.10
> (Speed, Queue/Unqueue "dynamic playlists", usability -- Amarok's
> equalizer is intimidating to say the least)
Amarok and Juk work just great for me....
> PIM: Kontact
Same here...
> Ripper/Music encoder: bladeenc + GRip
Grip and at times sound juicer
> 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?)
Q3Arena, UT2003 and UT.. Also RTCW runs like crazy on Linux..
> "Desktop environment": KDE 3.3
> (Feature-rich, good and easy configurability)
Most importantly KDE3.3 is the most well integrated desktop, where each
application works well with the entire system... For an older system though,
I would prefer using XFCE.
> 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)
None really. However I love the speed and simplicity of Slackware.
> Web Browser: Firefox 1.0
> (Maybe this would be a unamimous decision for most...)
Pick me too!!
IM: Kopete
HTML editor: Quanta+
terminal emulator:konsole>
office suite:0pen Office(KDE NWF)
CDburning: K3b/cdrdao..
--
/Sumeet
I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather
dance with the cows till you come home.
-- Groucho Marx
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