Radomir Dopieralski wrote: > Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:50:36PM +0200: > >> Another gnome package proposal. It consists of useful utilities which >> are only run explicitly and for which we have no equivalents (except for >> screenshot as a panel plugin) >> > > > [snip (see below) ] > >> I know there were plans of adding search to thunar and also a disk usage >> view but those have not materialized afaik. Same for floppy formatter. >> >> Since many users would find these helpful but would not know where to >> find them if not installed I propose including them. >> >> Pros, cons? >> > > Let's see what alternatives are there: > > >> The utils are: >> - baobab, a disk usage analyser >> > > I think there was another, non-gnome utility, called gdmap, but its > output is much harder to analyze and less useful. I also find it harder > to operate. > > There are command-line tools like df and du, but they are only suitable > for advanced users. > > Thunar can display a summary of a directory's disk usage when you click > "properties", but there is no overview. > > >> - gfloppy, a tool for formatting floppy disks >> > > Two comamndline tools, mformat (from mtools) and mkfs.vfat, could possibly > be added as a custom action to thunar or with a simple gui could be > written (but that's additional work, and the resulting application > wouldn't be tested). > > >> - gnome-dictionary, a program which can look up the definition of words >> over the internet (including a panel applet to do the same) >> > > A commandline "dict" which does basically the same thing. > There is also xfce4-dict-plugin. > > >> - gnome-search-tool, with which one can find files by name or content >> > > There is "catfish", written by #xubuntu regular, and also > tracker-search-tool (is it the same as gnome-search tool?). I won't even > mention beagle ;) > > >> - gnome-system-log, a log viewing application >> > > For now we just tell users to use a text editor. A dedicated application > is nice because a) it shows in the menu b) it lists the available log > files. A similar effect could be achieved by making links to the log files > in the menu, but the log viewer also has the nice feature of comfotable > date choosing. > > >> - gnome-screenshot, a tool to take desktop screenshots and save them >> into a file >> > > There is ImageMagick's "import" and a separate "scrot", which could be > bound to the "print screen" key by default. There is the aforemntioned > desktop plugin. Gimp can take screenshots. > > One thing I would like to see is the Volume Manager Plugin activated and set with "Device - Default" With this plugin turned on, laptop and keyboard volume control buttons just work without any tinkering
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