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Virtualboxbuntu

February 25th, 2009, 05:07 AM

What are your favorite programs to use for the following:

1. Web Browsing
2. Email
3. Instant Messaging
4. Video Watching
5. Photo Managing
6. Music Listening
7. Office Suite
8. Desktop Publishing
9. Desktop Environment
10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.)

If any don't apply to you, that's okay. If there are others, feel free to add them.

Mine are:
1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Emesene
4. Totem
5. F-Spot
6. Songbird/Banshee
7. Abiword, Openoffice for everything else
8. Scribus
9. GNOME (I'd use KDE but doesn't work with my printer)
10. Cairo Dock

Ms_Angel_D

February 25th, 2009, 05:10 AM

1. Firefox
2. Evolution (I like the gnome integration)
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. Fspot does fine for me
6. Songbird
7. Open Office
8. Dreamweaver (Wine)
9. Gnome
10. I'm not big on docks but I love Ubuntu System panel for menu management

OutOfReach

February 25th, 2009, 05:12 AM

1. Opera
2. KMail or Web Gmail interface
3. Kopete (I don't IM much though)
4. VLC
5. Gwenview (Any better suggestions?)
6. MPD
7. OpenOffice/Abiword (KWord Beta crashes on me sometimes, also notice their the only GTK apps in my list)
8. Doesn't apply to me...
9. KDE
10. Plasma

RichardLinx

February 25th, 2009, 05:13 AM

1. Web Browsing = Firefox/Opera (I use both)
2. Email - Use Gmail
3. Instant Messaging - Pidgin
4. Video Watching - Totem
5. Photo Managing - Fspot does the job
6. Music Listening - Banshee
7. Office Suite - Openoffice
8. Desktop Publishing - Gedit
9. Desktop Environment - KDE
10. Window Managing (dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.) - None

Currently using GNOME so my preference is for GNOME apps.

Grant A.

February 25th, 2009, 05:14 AM

Windows:

1. Firefox
2. Firefox (G-Mail web interface)
3. ChatZilla (IRC) Windows Live Messenger (MSN)
4. Windows Media Player
5. GIMP
6. iTunes
7. Microsoft Office
8. N/A
9. Well, the default Windows Vista Shell, but I'm thinking about trying SharpEnviro.
10. Tied into the shell.

*nix:

1. Firefox
2. Firefox (G-Mail web interface)
3. Irssi (IRC) Pidgin (MSN)
4. N/A
5. GIMP
6. Listen
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. Fluxbox or GNOME (Not together!)
10. Tied into the DE

RPG Master

February 25th, 2009, 05:22 AM

1. Firefox
2. Evolution
3. Pidgin
4. VLC for DVDs, Totem for everything else
5. F-Spot
6. Songbird
7. Open Office.org Suite
8. Open Office.org Draw? I've never had to use a desktop publisher...
9. GNOME
10. Compiz (I think thats a WM...)

RiceMonster

February 25th, 2009, 05:23 AM

1. Firefox
2. Gmail
3. Pidgin
4. Mplayer
5. Mirage
6. foobar2000 (wish this was on Linux!)
7. Couldn't care less
8. N/A
9. Xfce
10. Xfce

Virtualboxbuntu

February 25th, 2009, 05:24 AM

KWord Beta has always been very unstable for me, but other than that it's a great program.

I like how Evolution has much better integration than Thunderbird, but Thunderbird always seemed to have more features (to me). The only thing that really bothers me is that it doesn't work with Global Menu.

Rokurosv

February 25th, 2009, 05:29 AM

1. Firefox
2. Gmail
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. Ristretto
6. Banshee
7. OpenOffice
8. Scribus
9. XFCE
10. Normal panel

cardinals_fan

February 25th, 2009, 05:30 AM

1. Web Browsing: links -g most of the time, Firefox for Flash or complex sites
2. Email: GMail web or alpine
3. Instant Messaging: Pidgin, looking for a CLI app
4. Video Watching: Mplayer
5. Photo Managing: GQView (I edit with GIMP and Picasa)
6. Music Listening: Alsaplayer or cplay
7. Office Suite: vim + html (documents), Gnumeric (spreadsheet), Google Docs (presentations)
8. Desktop Publishing: Abiword
9. Desktop Environment: None, see below
10. Window Managing (dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.): evilwm, because I don't like docks or taskbars

RiceMonster

February 25th, 2009, 05:33 AM

3. Instant Messaging: Pidgin, looking for a CLI app

Have you tried Finch? It's the CLI version of Pidgin. You might have installed it when you installed Pidgin, depending on how your distribution packages it.

chucky chuckaluck

February 25th, 2009, 05:33 AM

1. Web Browsing - firefox
2. Email - gmail
3. Instant Messaging - i despise instant messaging
4. Video Watching - vlc
5. Photo Managing - managing?
6. Music Listening - cplay, mplayer for streaming
7. Office Suite - lol!
8. Desktop Publishing - huh?
9. Desktop Environment - openbox
10. Window Managing - mc

cardinals_fan

February 25th, 2009, 05:34 AM

Have you tried Finch? It's the CLI version of Pidgin. You might have installed it when you installed Pidgin, depending on how your distribution packages it.
It's not included with the default SliTaz Pidgin, so I might cook myself a custom Pidgin. Is it good?

RiceMonster

February 25th, 2009, 05:36 AM

It's not included with the default SliTaz Pidgin, so I might cook myself a custom Pidgin. Is it good?

I haven't used it much because I prefer a GUI for instant messaging. From what I've seen it does seem pretty good, though a little odd as it seems to try and emulate having different windows in the CLI.

jomiolto

February 25th, 2009, 05:37 AM

These are "at the moment" and subject to change at any time, if I find something cool ;)

1. Firefox
2. Lately I've used Thunderbird, Opera Mail and Evolution, but it doesn't really matter. As long as it can send and receive plain text e-mail, it's fine for me :P
3. irssi. Sadly there are some people that do not use IRC, so I also use Pidgin, but I don't really like it...
4. mplayer (from command line) and VLC
5. I've never used any photo managing software.
6. mplayer, VLC, Rhythmbox, Exaile, etc. are all fine. I'm not really picky.
7. I don't like office suites :P
8. LaTeX. I've been looking at DocBook lately, but it seems that the applications to turn DocBook into nice PDFs are somewhat lacking :confused:
9. I usually don't use one. At the moment I'm on Gnome, though -- I just did a fresh installation of Hardy and I decided to see if the default desktop would be usable for me :p
10. Plain Openbox without any bells and whistles.

Virtualboxbuntu

February 25th, 2009, 05:43 AM

As a previous poster suggested, I tried to install IE7. It didn't work all that well, but I'll try again.

After looking through the ies4linux executable (it's a text file), I figured out how to install IE 1. It's pretty useless, but hey, I should test in as many browsers as possible...:lolflag:

MikeTheC

February 25th, 2009, 06:14 AM

Open-Source:

Web Browsing: Firefox
Email: Evolution †
Instant Messaging: Pidgin / Adium X
Video Watching: VideoLAN Client
Photo Managing: F-Spot
Music Listening: Banshee††
Office Suite: OpenOffice
Desktop Publishing: Scribus‡‡
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Window Managing: Gnome

Overall:

Web Browsing: Firefox
Email: Entourage / Outlook †
Instant Messaging: Pidgin (Adium X) / iChat ‡
Video Watching: VideoLAN Client
Photo Managing: iPhoto
Music Listening: iTunes
Office Suite: MS Office 2008†‡
Desktop Publishing: Adobe InDesign
Desktop Environment: Gnome‡‡‡
Window Managing: Aqua†††

† It should be pointed out that I have come to prefer web-based email to any local client's approach, regardless if it's open-source or commercial. That being said, I'd still have to say Entourage or Outlook remain more refined than Evolution.

†† I list Banshee not so much because I'm really "in love with" it but because, of all the open-source audio players, it's the least cumbersome, both in terms of the UI and the back-end operations.

††† This is close. See, I think the visual aspect of Aqua's dock, buttons, etc., are all far more polished and refined than what exists anywhere else. That being said, I do find the Windows Taskbar / Gnome Taskbar to be a more efficient and functional metaphor. However, since I usually either Alt+Tab or CMD+Tab my way through apps anyhow, it's actually not that big a deal to me.

‡ It depends on what you're really trying to do here. I don't think there's a question that Pidgin or Adium X, which are both crafted from a shared code base, are really excellent text-based IM clients. However, I haven't found anything else which is as useful for video chatting as iChat, even though it's a proprietary solution which usually (though not exclusively) is used with Apple's iSight cameras.

‡‡ I have to list Scribus because it's really open-source's *only* true desktop publishing app. It works, and I've built some layouts with it, but there's no way it's even close to competing with InDesign. Ditto to this what I said about office software.

‡‡‡ It's probably a tie, but I'm willing to give Gnome the edge here simply because I view it as I always have viewed it, and that is Gnome is Mac OS Classic's Finder done right. However, there are definite visual refinements Aqua has over it.

†‡ It's not that I really like MS Office. In fact, it's not that I'm a user of "office suite" software, because I'm really not. In most cases, I use a word processor and/or a spreadsheet for certain kinds of utility text processing tasks. I rank MS Office 2008 higher simply because it's more refined. As with email apps, I look forward to the day that the open-source alternatives become better than the commercial equivalents.

Muffinabus

February 25th, 2009, 06:23 AM

Ubuntu:
1. Firefox
2. Firefox - Gmail
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. N/A
6. Don't really have a favorite for Linux yet
7. OpenOffice.org
8. N/A
9. GNOME
10. GNOME

Windows:
1. Firefox
2. Firefox - Gmail
3. AIM
4. VLC
5. N/A
6. Foobar2000
7. Microsoft Office 2007
8. N/A
9. Uh, Windows?
10. More Windows??

konqueror7

February 25th, 2009, 06:28 AM

1. Firefox
2. Gmail/Yahoo! Mail (Firefox)
3. Pidgin
4. SMplayer
5. Google Picasa
6. Rhythmbox
7. OpenOffice.org 3
8. N/A
9. GNOME
10. GNOME

Scruffynerf

February 25th, 2009, 08:33 AM

1) Firefox
2) Thunderbird
3) Pidgin
4) Amarok / Songbird (I'm torn betwixt the two)
5) -- I like MS Expression Media 2 on Windows/Mac, haven't found a good one for linux--
6) Open Office
8) --
9) Gnome
10) Gnome Panel

x33a

February 25th, 2009, 09:17 AM

my list

1. firefox
2. gmail
3. none
4. vlc
5. gthumb (photo viewing)
6. amarok
7. openoffice for the rare times i need an office suite.
8. none
9. gnome
10. none

sujoy

February 25th, 2009, 10:18 AM

1. Firefox/ links -g
2. Thunderbird/ Mutt
3. Pidgin/ Irssi + bitlbee
4. Mplayer
5. Mirage/ Feh
6. MPD + sonata/ ncmpcpp
7. OpenOffice (hardly ever used)
8. Latex + Emacs/ vim
9. N/A
10. Openbox + bmpanel / XMonad + xmobar

urukrama

February 25th, 2009, 12:26 PM

It depends what computer I am using. If I give two options, the first I use on older computers, the second on less older computers.

1. Web: Opera
2. Email: alpine or Opera
3. IM: --
4. Video: mplayer
5. Photo: feh
6. Music: mocp or gmpc
7. Office: vim-latex or OpenOffice
8. Desktop: vim or gedit with Latex
9. Desktop Environment: --
10. Window Managing: Awesome or Openbox

kdcoetzee

February 25th, 2009, 07:46 PM

1. Firefox
2. Evolution
3. Pidgin
4. Mplayer
5. Eog
6. Audacious
7. Vim or Open Office
8. Vim
9. Gnome
10. Gnome

Simian Man

February 25th, 2009, 07:54 PM

1. Web Browsing Firefox
2. Email --
3. Instant Messaging --
4. Video Watching --
5. Photo Managing --
6. Music Listening Ryhtymbox
7. Office Suite Vim + LaTeX
8. Desktop Publishing Vim + LaTeX
9. Desktop Environment Gnome
10. Window Managing Gnome

Virtualboxbuntu

February 26th, 2009, 04:50 AM

mamamia88

February 26th, 2009, 05:34 AM

1.Firefox
2.Gmail
3.Pidgin
4.Vlc
5.F-spot
6.Rythmbox
7.Open office
8.don't do any
9.gnome
10. combination of scale and window selector

FuturePilot

February 26th, 2009, 06:56 AM

1. Web Browsing
2. Email
3. Instant Messaging
4. Video Watching
5. Photo Managing
6. Music Listening
7. Office Suite
8. Desktop Publishing
9. Desktop Environment
10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.)

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Gajim
4. Mplayer/VLC/Totem
5. Fspot
6. Banshee
7. OpenOffice
8. N/A
9. Gnome
10. Metacity/Compiz no docks.

doorknob60

February 26th, 2009, 07:26 AM

1. Web Browsing - Konqueror in KDE, Firefox in everything else, Opera on slow computers
2. Email - Gmail.com
3. Instant Messaging - Kopete in KDE, Pidgin everywhere else
4. Video Watching - VLC
5. Photo Managing - Picasa
6. Music Listening - Exaile
7. Office Suite - OpenOffice.org
8. Desktop Publishing - Scribus, but I've only used once lol
9. Desktop Environment - KDE or Lxde
10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.) - Openbox, Fluxbox, or Kwin

spupy

February 26th, 2009, 12:59 PM

1. Web Browsing - Firefox
2. Email - Thunderbird
3. Instant Messaging - Pidgin
4. Video Watching - gmplayer
5. Photo Managing - bare-hands
6. Music Listening - sonata
9. Desktop Environment - Fluxbox
10. Window Managing - wmctrl + fluxbox

chamber

February 26th, 2009, 02:15 PM

1. Firefox
2. Evolution
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. F spot
6. Rhythmbox
7. Open Office
8.
9. Openbox
10. Openbox

Johnsie

February 26th, 2009, 03:06 PM

1. Web Browsing: IE8 because it starts faster than FF and is compatible with more sites. I work in the mailing industry and several companies we work with have IE only sites.

2. Email: Outlook is by far the best email product for professionals

3. Instant Messaging: MSN messenger. Great audio/video support

4. Video Watching: Youtube/Flash. Windows Media Player or "Movie Player"

5. Photo Managing: Photoshop and paint. Kolourpaint on linux.

6. Music Listening: Amarok 2 for Windows. Ubuntu only has 1.46 in the repos!

7. Office Suite: Microsoft Office when available. OO if I really have to but I prefer MS Office.

8. Desktop Publishing: MS Word and Abiword

9. Desktop Environment: Windows

10. Window Managing (dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.): I use the quicklaunch. My startbar is always two rows instead of one so I can have one row just for icons. I do the same in Ubuntu.

Anxious Nut

February 26th, 2009, 03:17 PM

1. Web Browsing: firefox (but to do something fast i use Midori)
2. Email: Gmail
3. Instant Messaging: pidgin (roX!)
4. Video Watching: VLC/Mplayer
5. Photo Managing: The GIMP
6. Listening: VLC
7. Office Suite: OOo (wordprocessor)
8. Desktop Publishing: N/A
9. Desktop Environment: Gnome
10. Window Managing: Gnome

Lord DarkPat

February 26th, 2009, 03:51 PM

1) Web Browsing - Opera. It serves my needs, and doesn't take up more memory than I expect it to
2) Email - KMail
3) IM - Gajim/Finch
4) Video Watching - VLC
5) Photo Management - digiKam
6) Music - Amarok
7) Office Suite - Vim, Geany, Gnumeric and Powerpoint (very rarely)
8- Desktop Publishing - Abiword
9) DE - No DE
10) Window Management - dwm

3. Instant Messaging: Pidgin, looking for a CLI app
There's finch. If you have pidgin installed, you have finch installed along with it.

darsu

March 4th, 2009, 04:34 PM

Web browsing: Konqueror
Email: Pine
IM: not applicable
Video watching: MPlayer
Photo management: GIMP
Music: Amarok
Office Suite: Microsoft's
Desktop publishing: LaTeX
DE: not applicable (WM: XMonad)

will1911a1

March 4th, 2009, 04:44 PM

1. Web Browsing - Firefox
2. Email - I use a web based interface
3. Instant Messaging - Pidgin
4. Video Watching - Mplayer... I guess.
5. Photo Managing - Gimp
6. Music Listening - Exaile
7. Office Suite - Open Office
8. Desktop Publishing - N/A
9. Desktop Environment - N/A
10. Window Managing - Openbox with tint2 as a panel

Firestem4

March 4th, 2009, 05:37 PM

1. Web Browsing - Firefox
2. Email - GMail
3. Instant Messaging = Kopete (But using KMess because a Kopete protocol is broken and I can't figure out how to fix it. KMess is nice though)
4. Video Watching - KMPlayer or Kaffeine
5. Photo Managing - Gwenview
6. Music Listening - Amarok/Songbird
7. Office Suite - OpenOffice (I had Koffice too for kicks but KDE4.2 update broke a dep i can't fix)
8. Desktop Publishing - none
9. Desktop Environment - KDE 4.2
10. Window Managing - Plasmoids

DownTown22

March 4th, 2009, 05:44 PM

Windows:

1. Web Browsing - Firefox (with IE tab when need be)
2. Email - Firefox (personal) and Lotus Notes (work)
3. Instant Messaging - Skype and Pidgin
4. Video Watching - VLC and Creative Media Source
5. Photo Managing - Picasa
6. Music Listening - Creative Media Source and iTunes
7. Office Suite - Open Office (personal) and MS Office 2003 (work)
8. Desktop Publishing - N/A
9. Desktop Environment - Windows (Vista at home and XP at work)
10. Window Managing - Windows (Vista at home and XP at work)

Ubuntu:

1. Web Browsing - Firefox
2. Email - Firefox
3. Instant Messaging - Skype and Pidgin
4. Video Watching - VLC and Totem
5. Photo Managing - Picasa and FSpot
6. Music Listening - Rhythmbox and Banshee (still deciding)
7. Office Suite - Open Office
8. Desktop Publishing - N/A
9. Desktop Environment - Gnome
10. Window Managing - Gnome/Compiz

blueshiftoverwatch

March 5th, 2009, 02:17 AM

1. Web Browsing - Mozilla Firefox
2. Email - Mozilla Thunderbird
3. Instant Messaging - Pidgin
4. Video Watching - VLC Media Player
5. Photo Managing - N/A, I just use the default file manager
6. Music Listening - N/A, I listen to music on stereo's CD player
7. Office Suite - OpenOffice.org
8. Desktop Publishing - N/A
9. Desktop Environment - As of currently: GNOME, but I might switch back to KDE someday
10. Window Managing - Whatever the default is, I don't need anything fancy

adamlau

March 5th, 2009, 02:27 AM

1. Opera
2. Opera
3. Pidgin
4. SMPlayer
5. Geeqie
6. MPlayer
7. OpenOffice
8. N/A
9. None
10. JWM + Poor Man's Tiling Manager

jimi_hendrix

March 5th, 2009, 03:10 AM

gymophett

March 5th, 2009, 03:15 AM

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Pidgin
4. MPlayer
5. Picasa 3
6. Songbird
7. Open Office
8. Scribus
9. GNOME
10. Default

JackieChan

March 5th, 2009, 04:19 AM

1. FireFox
2. FireFox
3. Pidgin/Skype
4. VLC
5. F-Spot
6. Songbird
7. Open Office 3
8. Scribus
9. GNOME
10. None

avaralom

March 5th, 2009, 05:43 AM

1. firefox
2. thunderbird, and occasionally just the web
3. pidgin, digsby and trillian on windows
4. i don't really know as i don't watch too many videos
5. don't use it (photo)
6. rhythmbox and songbird
7. openoffice
8. dreamweaver. i use gedit on linux though.
9. fluxbox
10. don't really have one?

bomanizer

March 5th, 2009, 12:02 PM

1. Web Browsing - Firefox
2. Email - Thunderbird
3. Instant Messaging - Pidgin
4. Video Watching - Mplayer
5. Photo Managing - gThumb
6. Music Listening - Rhythmbox
7. Office Suite - OOo
8. Desktop Publishing - N/A
9. Desktop Environment - Gnome
10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.) - Gnome generic

Corfy

March 6th, 2009, 04:58 AM

1 - Firefox
2 - Evolution
3 - Pidgin
4 - VLC
5 - Nautilus
6 - Amarok or Songbird
7 - OpenOffice.org
8 - Scribus
9 - GNOME
10 - Cairo-dock

Rrasyrogenees

July 17th, 2009, 01:56 AM

1. Firefox
2. Hotmail (main), Yahoo (work), Gmail... a few others
3. aMSN – changing to ekiga (Emesene doesn't seem to have webcam abilities)
4. VLC
5. F-Spot (I don't do much of this at all but I just download pictures that I take for now)
6. Rythymbox (until I can find one with an equalizer.... like the one winamp has)
7. Openoffice
8. don't have a use for this... yet... but for web design I am learning on Kompozer
9. GNOME
10. never knew to use a program for doing this (should I need this?)

i am still looking into a lot of thing but slowly... i will be changing my mind on some of these after a while i am thinking

Jimleko211

July 17th, 2009, 02:25 AM

1. Web Browsing -- Swiftfox
2. Email -- Evolution
3. Instant Messaging -- Pidgin
4. Video Watching -- Totem
5. Photo Managing -- F-Spot
6. Music Listening -- Banshee
7. Office Suite -- Open Office
8. Desktop Publishing -- N/A
9. Desktop Environment -- GNOME
10. Window Managing -- Gnome-do with Docky

Bart_D

July 17th, 2009, 03:33 AM

Jimleko211

July 17th, 2009, 03:41 AM

1. Firefox(Ubuntu only....FF is forced down my throat so I have no choice but to swallow)

Not true, you can download Opera and Konqueror from the Repos.

Bart_D

July 17th, 2009, 04:02 AM

Not true, you can download Opera and Konqueror from the Repos.

Don't like either of them so, in effect, I don't have much choice. STILL WAITING for Chrome...once it's released, it will be goodbye to Firefox.

Jimleko211

July 17th, 2009, 04:09 AM

Don't like either of them so, in effect, I don't have much choice. STILL WAITING for Chrome...once it's released, it will be goodbye to Firefox.
You could try the Chromium beta's, I heard they were pretty good.

mynameinc

July 17th, 2009, 04:52 AM

Firefox could be a legitimate answer for all but 8, 9, & 10 and it may be a legitimate answer for 8, not sure.

bhishan

July 17th, 2009, 04:59 AM

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Empathy
4. VLC
5. Picasa
6. Rhythmbox
7. Openoffice
8. Scribus
9. GNOME
10.buttons on taskbar

Barrucadu

July 17th, 2009, 08:52 AM

Web Browsing: Opera, or uzbl.
Email: claws-mail
Instant Messaging: Bitlbee + Weechat
Video Watching: VLC
Photo Managing: Emelfm2 + Terminal + Mirage
Music Listening: MPD (or VLC for individual tracks)
Office Suite: Open Office (I barely use it though, so it may noit count)
Desktop Publishing: None
Desktop Environment: None
Window Managing: StumpWM

koshatnik

July 17th, 2009, 01:49 PM

1. Opera/Safari
2. Thunderbird
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. LightRoom
6. Songbird
7. Openoffice
8. Pages
9 & 10 OSX for the apps, Linux for everything else

Fatal Toenail Infection

July 17th, 2009, 02:00 PM

1. Web Browsing: Epiphany
2. Email: Evolution
3. Instant Messaging: Pidgin
4. Video Watching: Totem
5. Photo Managing: F-Spot
6. Music Listening: Rhythmbox
7. Office Suite: AbiWord, Gnumeric
8. Desktop Publishing: Scribus, Gimp
9. Desktop Environment: Gnome
10. Window Managing: Gnome Panel

Mornedhel

July 17th, 2009, 02:00 PM

What are your favorite programs to use for the following:

1. Web Browsing
2. Email
3. Instant Messaging
4. Video Watching
5. Photo Managing
6. Music Listening
7. Office Suite
8. Desktop Publishing
9. Desktop Environment
10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.)

1. Shiretoko
2. Emacs (Wanderlust)
3. Emacs (ERC), Pidgin or Emacs (Garak, libpurple-based IM client)
4. mplayer
5. Don't do that/Nautilus if I have to
6. Emacs (EMMS with MPD)
7. Don't do that/OpenOffice if I have to
8. Emacs (AucTeX, LaTeX environment)
9. Emacs ?... OK, Gnome.
10. Emacs (insofar as you can display and edit several files in several buffers simultaneously), Sawfish (the configuration of which is not done through vim, as you might have guessed). No dock. Single 48px bottom gnome-panel.

RiceMonster

July 17th, 2009, 02:01 PM

All emacs needs now is it's own kernel.

MONODA

July 17th, 2009, 04:33 PM

Web Browsing: Opera
Email: sylpheed
Instant Messaging: Bitlbee
Video Watching: VLC
Photo Managing: Emelfm2 + Terminal + Mirage
Music Listening: Pragha
Office Suite: Open Office, latex
Desktop Publishing: None
Desktop Environment: None
Window Managing: Openbox

andras artois

July 17th, 2009, 05:40 PM

1. Firefox
2. Hotmail (so no program)
3. Pidgin
4. VLC
5. I don't use one
6. Rhythmbox
7. OpenOffice
8. ?
9. GNOME
10. Default Ubuntu plus/minus a few quick launch things

SirBismuth

July 17th, 2009, 07:25 PM

1. Web Browsing

Firefox

2. Email

Evolution

3. Instant Messaging

Pidgin, when I do

4. Video Watching

Dunno, the Ubuntu Default one?

5. Photo Managing

F-Spot

6. Music Listening

Amarok

7. Office Suite

OpenOffice

8. Desktop Publishing

N/A

9. Desktop Environment

Gnome

10. Window Managing (the way you switch between windows; dock, buttons on taskbar, etc.)

Ubuntu default

B