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iampriteshdesai
December 31st, 2009, 09:11 AM
Which NEW software did you try out this year and totally loved it?
For me it was Chrome, Docky and OpenShot...
What about you?

Khakilang
December 31st, 2009, 09:30 AM
Empathy I guess.

Ylon
December 31st, 2009, 11:09 AM
Are we talking about newcomers in 2009 or "history wide" Ubuntu software?



Newcomers: Google Chrome Linux (did come this year)
From the past: Compiz

premamotion
December 31st, 2009, 11:13 AM
That`s a nice starting, and usefull this post!

Please continue...

I love Cheese and Ubuntu Tweak!

lovinglinux
December 31st, 2009, 11:23 AM
Not actually NEW software, but was the first time I used these and I loved them.

kde
kate
dolphin
kdesvn
ktorrent


I also would like to mention these Firefox extensions, since I started to use them this year and they are great:

Add to Search Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682)
Flash Game Maximizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9631)
Ghostery (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609)
KDE Wallet password integration (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357)

Nerd King
December 31st, 2009, 11:25 AM
Docky. I love it. It's the only Dock program I've used that I actually liked.

iampriteshdesai
December 31st, 2009, 02:29 PM
anything new and which you found useful this year...

iampriteshdesai
December 31st, 2009, 02:30 PM
Not actually NEW software, but was the first time I used these and I loved them.

kde
kate
dolphin
kdesvn
ktorrent


I also would like to mention these Firefox extensions, since I started to use them this year and they are great:

Add to Search Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682)
Flash Game Maximizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9631)
Ghostery (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609)
KDE Wallet password integration (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357)


Even i wanted to mention KDE 4.5 but didn't at the last moment.
Dolphin is far better than Nautilus.
How about Amarok 2?
I believe 1.5 was slicker than 2.

iampriteshdesai
December 31st, 2009, 02:33 PM
Yes Ubuntu Tweak is another great application..
Version 0.6 looks awesome!
Its mockup, imean to say

Hetor
December 31st, 2009, 02:41 PM
/bin/bash

iampriteshdesai
December 31st, 2009, 02:44 PM
/bin/bash

Very useful... :P lol

del_diablo
December 31st, 2009, 07:13 PM
openbox
docker
feh
Opera (duh)

UKBB
December 31st, 2009, 07:18 PM
For me Ubuntu was the new software I tried in 09. The most recent software I tried out though is Gnome Do.

Mahngiel
December 31st, 2009, 07:24 PM
Agave is beautiful, and a great tool for color-challenged men like me.
OpenOffice
Inkscape

SuperSonic4
December 31st, 2009, 07:27 PM
Not actually NEW software, but was the first time I used these and I loved them.

kde
kate
dolphin
kdesvn
ktorrent


I also would like to mention these Firefox extensions, since I started to use them this year and they are great:

Add to Search Bar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682)
Flash Game Maximizer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9631)
Ghostery (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609)
KDE Wallet password integration (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357)

Nice to see some love for KDE :). Dolphin would gain my vote


Even i wanted to mention KDE 4.5 but didn't at the last moment.
Dolphin is far better than Nautilus.
How about Amarok 2?
I believe 1.5 was slicker than 2.

KDE 4.5 won't be available until 2010 so that's understandable.
There was never an amarok 1.5 - the last version of 1.x was 1.4.10

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For me

New program: mplayer-svn, ffmpeg-svn, x264-git, vlc-git. These are largely dependent on each other so all count - especially x264

Old program: Dolphin - F3 makes Krusader less useful. The KDE 4.4 version has also eliminated the hanging when hovering over files

LeifAndersen
December 31st, 2009, 07:44 PM
Very old programs, but they're new to me:

OpenSSH
Vim
less

Syndri
December 31st, 2009, 07:53 PM
Ailurus (Ubuntu Tweak on Steriods)

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/12/meet-ailurus-aka-ubuntu-tweak-on.html

Pino (Twitter Application on Ubuntu)

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/12/pino-twitter-application.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/SykOOt_0h2I/AAAAAAAAE7I/fVa8qpbeIpw/s1600-h/Selection_057.png

lovinglinux
January 1st, 2010, 01:44 AM
I just saw gkrellm on another thread. It's very nice.

DeadSuperHero
January 1st, 2010, 02:18 AM
-Shotwell
-Gnote
-Empathy
-Ubuntu Software Center
-Syntensity
-Chromium-browser
-OpenShot
-Cheese
-Lucruri

All of these things show a lot of promise.

Hwæt
January 1st, 2010, 02:20 AM
Not really software, but the new icon theme that came with Karmic. It's much better than the old human icon theme.

Hyper Tails
January 1st, 2010, 02:49 AM
not new but.....

Virtual Box!!

Ginsu543
January 1st, 2010, 02:56 AM
not new but.....

Virtual box!!
+1

iampriteshdesai
January 1st, 2010, 07:10 AM
Nice to see some love for KDE :). Dolphin would gain my vote



KDE 4.5 won't be available until 2010 so that's understandable.
There was never an amarok 1.5 - the last version of 1.x was 1.4.10

------------------------------

For me

New program: mplayer-svn, ffmpeg-svn, x264-git, vlc-git. These are largely dependent on each other so all count - especially x264

Old program: Dolphin - F3 makes Krusader less useful. The KDE 4.4 version has also eliminated the hanging when hovering over files

Ooops Mistake! :P
I meant to say KDE 4.3 and Amarok 1.4
thanks for pointing out my mistake

iampriteshdesai
January 1st, 2010, 07:19 AM
Not really software, but the new icon theme that came with Karmic. It's much better than the old human icon theme.

+1 Karmic is the first Ubuntu release where I loved the original theme so much, that i still haven't changed it

FuturePilot
January 1st, 2010, 07:28 AM
There's probably more but 2 that come to mind


Zsh
Flac

iampriteshdesai
January 1st, 2010, 08:11 AM
Guys it would be better if we describe what the software does in short, especially for less known software.

xuCGC002
January 1st, 2010, 08:16 AM
I discovered Banshee (audio player), and never looked back to Rhythmbox again.

Khakilang
January 1st, 2010, 09:37 AM
I discovered RealPlayer 11 for Linux. I think its cool.

ssj6akshat
January 1st, 2010, 09:55 AM
Docky,Openshot,VirtualBox and Ubuntu Tweak

Exodist
January 1st, 2010, 01:19 PM
GIMP
Inkscape
MyPaint
Blender
Sun VirtualBox
Pidgin
Scorched 3D

jauntybluefish
January 2nd, 2010, 04:38 PM
Having just got into web designing and Ubuntu (coming from XP) I cannot live without gedit and the excellent plugins.
I also am learning Gimp and Inkscape, which are entirely new to me, and last but not least the Firefox extension Rainbow, which beats all the other colour pickers in the universe when you are online and want to get a particular colour that catches your eye.

Happy new year.
Andy

Anuovis
January 2nd, 2010, 05:54 PM
These are all for Gnome...
>Deluge - bit torrent client
>AcetoneISO - iso mounter/manager/converter
>Mail notification - stand-alone app for checking your mailboxes
>Qualculate - an awesome calculator
>Parcellite - clipboard manager

Firefox extensions:
>Platypus - customizing how the web pages are displayed, removing unwanted parts, etc.
>Wired-Marker - marking text inside the pages, everything is saved, ability to open pages/search by highlighted text and tags.
>Menu editor - for removing unnecessary entries in your Firefox menus

Game:
>Planescape Torment - imho, the best computer game ever created. RPG with more dialogue than combat. (sorry, Wine, VirtualBox or dual-booting for this one)

suman_kol
January 2nd, 2010, 07:21 PM
openshot, brasero, inkscape.

RPG Master
January 2nd, 2010, 08:25 PM
Last year I tried and loved:
DigiKam - The closes thing to Lightroom for Linux
Docky - I would've never saw my self as being a dock user :P
Rubyripper - Yay for super accurate CD rips :D
Blender - I finally got around to learning how to use it :P
Handbrake - Makes ripping movies really simple
Back in Time - Makes managing back ups really easy
BleachBit - Helps ya clean out random stuff to free up space.
Calibre - Lets you read, manage and transfer ebooks to your reading device
Comix - for reading Comic Book Archive files. Really fun :D
Xiphos - Wonderful bible study program :KS
Shutter - Makes me want to make more tutorials :P

HomoGleek
January 2nd, 2010, 09:05 PM
Been using Ubuntu since September, and not booted any other OS since Karmic, so Linux has too be my fav find of the year, application wise


Software Centre
Ubuntu Tweak
Googe Chrome
SongBird
Emerald Themes

phillychease
January 2nd, 2010, 09:08 PM
firefox ofcourse :)

murderslastcrow
January 2nd, 2010, 10:12 PM
OMG OMG OMG OMG! SO MANY!

Chromium (duh)
Jokosher (kinda' like Garageband)
KDenLive (it's been around for so long and I couldn't find it??)
PiTiVi (will probably replace KDenLive for me when it gets more features)
Kompozer (WYSIWYG webpage editor)
Yuuguu (IM that lets Windows/Mac/Linux users share files, video, and especially DESKTOPS very easily by using web interfaces rather than subjecting users to a single-program protocol)
Google Picasa (do an actual Linux port, this Wine stuff is killing me)
World of Goo (awesome Linux game)
MediaTomb (allows you to stream media to UPNP devices like PS3, N810, and many others)
Synfig (professional animation software that can export to .swf format)

To be quite honest, the little programs can sometimes be the neatest, but a lot of stuff from 2009 seemed like commodities, not really useful programs, and even though I'm a sucker for new functionality, I can usually just do things the traditional way.

When Gloobus gets stable and usable, I'll definitely add it to this list.

gnomeuser
January 3rd, 2010, 12:15 AM
The obvious stand out single application is Chromium (and by extension Google Chrome). It has improved leaps and bounds not to mention at a pace that is downright inspiring. Now it has a vibrant ecosystem of extensions, it syncs bookmarks and many other neat things all without deteriorating the user interfaces wonderful simplicity.

Other than that I have been impressed by Banshee's progress this past year.

Another milestone for me was Empathy supporting msn webcam and voip conversations. This is a major step for the Linux desktop as MSN is such a widely used protocol. It still doesn't work flawlessly for me and I lack custom emoticon.

Finally I am very pleased with Moonlight's progress, it now provides a plugin (though only for Firefox) that grants access to most of the Silverlight content out there. Not leaving Linux users out of that part of the internet as well as granting us another great tool to build applications.

On the technology front I am pleased to see that ALSA continues to get fixed making the audio experience under Linux much more pleasant. Our wifi stack is very solid now and supports som advanced powersaving features. I am please to see that Launchpad was finally open sourced (now comes the quest for the Ubuntu One and the Landscape source). I like the new notifications and think they have really come into their own during 2009.

Least surprising:

Flash still blows chunks and doesn't have a stable 64bit release.

The open source community still hasn't jumped on the web application bandwagon and started working on entirely open alternative for things such as GMail. I really think we need to do this or face becoming a mere gateway to these web applications (a bit like what ChromeOS is doing - the OS is open but the services are all closed). Canonical seems to understand that we should go in this direction but follow the same deployment model as ChromeOS (open on the client, closed on the server) which saddens me to see.

1roxtar
January 3rd, 2010, 01:35 AM
My favorite picks for 2009....Ubuntu 9.10 & Software Center, Ubuntu Tweak, Google Chrome, Hulu Desktop, Gwibber, Empathy, OpenShot.

t0p
January 3rd, 2010, 01:49 AM
VirtualBox and FreeNX

Cam42
January 3rd, 2010, 01:54 AM
Virtualbox
Docky
Chrome
Compiz
Epiphany
Empathy

EDIT: KDE as well, though I still don't use it as much as GNOME

AndyCooll
January 3rd, 2010, 03:52 AM
I started using the following (for the first time) in 2009:
Google Chrome - of course!
Keepnote - as I've recently started an OU (Open University) course, I found this to be an excellent note-taking program
BBC iPlayer Desktop - at last Linux users can download BBC programmes too. ...and there is a 64-bit version.
OOTP Baseball - Out Of The Park Baseball. Uses the Football Manager gaming engine, and there's a Linux version of the game (i.e. doesn't require Wine!)
Simutrans - A transport tycoon type game

...others worthy of mention: Empathy, Sound Converter

:cool:

starcannon
January 3rd, 2010, 04:26 AM
Which NEW software did you try out this year and totally loved it?
For me it was Chrome, Docky and OpenShot...
What about you?

I pretty much have stuck with my software assortment. But I did try, and love 9.10, its excellent. I usually keep as many of my computers as I can on an LTS upgrade schedule, 9.10 is an exception to my personal rule on the matter. I am very much looking forward to the next LTS release, if a tweenlease was this good, the LTS is gonna slay.

kevdog
January 3rd, 2010, 04:48 AM
I learned how to cross compile on Linux for Windows in 2009. Two projects which I've done this on are Pidgin and Handbrake. I know these aren't apps but it was a fun process to learn none-the-less. I wish I could cross-compile more or that other projects had this feature.

slooksterpsv
January 3rd, 2010, 06:34 AM
My favorites (some not new):
-Virtual Box - I love PC Emulation
-Emesene - Looks like Windows Live Messenger
-Software Center - Synaptic was hard to use at times
-Hulu Desktop
-Songbird
-Terminal
-TTY1-TTY6
-Frets on Fire

xtjacob
January 3rd, 2010, 06:38 AM
For me its:
Google Chrome
VmWare
Gnome Do
Songbird
Compiz
Terminal

ElSlunko
January 3rd, 2010, 06:57 AM
Back In Time - Finally provided an easy and fool-proof way to handle my system backup.

Bibble 5 Pro - Well not in the realm of free software, but the photo workflow program that drives my business. I'm glad I get to spend it in Linux all due to the folks at bibblelabs.

Ralob
January 3rd, 2010, 07:47 AM
Calibre- ebook reader, converter, browser, and editor. Use it all the time, and adore it.

XBMC- amazing media player that I use daily.

VMWare- love this for my Windows needs.

Firefox- Extensions, extensions, extensions... Oh yeah, and the browser isn't bad either.

WINE- 'nuff said.

Freeguide- It is a GUI front-end for XMLTV. Love being able to dl tv listings for free and browse them anytime without needing to open a browser.

penguinv
January 3rd, 2010, 08:01 AM
Which NEW software did you try out this year and totally loved it?
For me it was Chrome, Docky and OpenShot...
What about you?

HEY! Listen up! Please please say what the software is for, what it does, what it's about?

Otherwise, those of us who are not (yet) congnoscenti (yea stuff I know that maybe your don't like that word I just used, lol) please let us in on the jokes. Otherwise this thread just becomes an impenetrable ingroup dialog.

We all get smarter together by sharing.


:popcorn:

starcannon
January 3rd, 2010, 08:34 AM
@hope2010s
Is that the smell of spam?

Warpnow
January 3rd, 2010, 08:39 AM
Chromium without a doubt.

HomoGleek
January 3rd, 2010, 10:35 AM
I realised some more than I just loved this year:

Emesene (Finally, an real MSN replacement)
Thunderbird 3 :)
MeMaker (how I mad my little avatar)

hotani
January 4th, 2010, 12:04 AM
MediaTomb (allows you to stream media to UPNP devices like PS3, N810, and many others)

Really? REALLY? Mediatomb has by far been the biggest POS I've ever had the misfortune of trying to use or manage.

Mediatomb disconnects randomly from my ps3 in the middle of videos. The mediatomb database gets corrupted and requires a rebuild every 2 weeks or so. This means I have to completely reconfigure the watched directories and wait for them to be added to the database which will soon become corrupted again.

Mediatomb needs to DIAF. I wish the developers would either kill the project, fix it, or hand it off to someone that can make it more reliable and less of a headache. I hate, hate, hate dealing with this software but unfortunately I have yet to find anything to take its place.

Relevant content to this thread: Firefox 3.6 and Chrome are good browsers on Ubuntu.

alket
January 4th, 2010, 12:25 AM
Pidgin
Google Chrome (better than firefox for zooming images)
Ubuntu Software Center
Thunderbird
OpenArena
Gnome DO
Eclipse

Add-ons/plugins/etc

Pidgin Facebook Chat
Lightning (thunderbird)

Crunchy the Headcrab
January 4th, 2010, 12:31 AM
Compiz -- I just started utilizing it's extra features this year (amazing)
Avant Window Navigator 4.0 -- It's still in testing and I'm not sure when the beta became available but it is superb!
Rhythmbox -- Because I used to use Exaile/Amarok and I recently fell in love
Gimp -- Not new, but it's the freaking GIMP!

the8thstar
January 4th, 2010, 12:33 AM
Best apps of 2009 : Global Menu, AWN-trunk, GParted and Ubuntu Tweak.

Best themes and DEs : hands down, it's Gnome with Elementary, Elegant Brit and Plastique themes.

ace214
January 4th, 2010, 12:43 AM
Docky (dock program, originally part of Gnome-Do)
Frescobaldi (http://www.frescobaldi.org/) (editor for Lilypond music notation)
Handbrake (multi-platform dvd ripper)
Openshot (video editor)
Cover Thumbnailer (http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/music-album-covers-and-picture-previews.html) (images of album covers, etc. in Nautilus)

ubername
January 4th, 2010, 12:57 AM
easystroke - mouse gestures to control your app's.

It's great - I open my web browser (chrome) by drawing a 'w', I close windows with diagonal right down, I minimise with diagonal left down, I maximise, restore with diagonal left up and so on.

doublewitt
January 23rd, 2010, 06:06 AM
Which NEW software did you try out this year and totally loved it?
For me it was Chrome, Docky and OpenShot...
What about you?

...a note taking application called ZIM Desktop Wiki.
I really appreciate this software!

Roasted
January 23rd, 2010, 07:06 AM
Even i wanted to mention KDE 4.5 but didn't at the last moment.
Dolphin is far better than Nautilus.
How about Amarok 2?
I believe 1.5 was slicker than 2.

I never really saw how people could compare Dolphin to Nautilus. They're not that different.. at least I never noticed much difference between them, except that Dolphin was a bit slower. Nothing major, but enough to notice and make worthwhile noting.

Amarok 1.5 was real nice. I miss it. :(

2009 was the first time I tried KDE. I loved it. But, ehh... has a way to go yet. I like the speed consistency of Gnome, so I'm sticking with it.

Gnome Do/Docky was probably the most note-worthy program I used in 2009. Very impressed with it.

k64
January 23rd, 2010, 07:32 AM
Definitely Chrome. Using it as I type.

iampriteshdesai
May 28th, 2010, 07:47 AM
I learned how to cross compile on Linux for Windows in 2009. Two projects which I've done this on are Pidgin and Handbrake. I know these aren't apps but it was a fun process to learn none-the-less. I wish I could cross-compile more or that other projects had this feature.
what do you mean by cross compile?