Best apps setup I've found yet

[travislucas]

I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my Compaq C500 notebook. I've been using Ubuntu since Feisty Fawn and I have to say that all in all Ubuntu got me to switch from the chains of windows. However after trying out different applications I've found that this basic setup seems to be the most productive for me.

Movie Player - Totem Xine

Music Player - Songbird 0.5 (Powered by Mozilla)

E-mail - Thunderbird (Powered by Mozilla)
- with Lightning add-on for my calendar current version 0.7 (Google calendar integration is easy to setup up and I haven't ran into any problem like with Evolution.)

Internet - Firefox 3.0 (Powered by Mozilla)

PDF - Adobe PDF viewer

Photo Organizer - Picasa (Powered by Google)

Image Viewer - F-Spot

Image Editor - The Gimp

Instant Messaging - Pidgin

My Personal opinion is that this setup of application is the best and most rewarding experience you'll get out of the Ubuntu Desktop, and in my experience the most stable and appealing set of applications for the Linux environment.

However I understand that Linux is meant to cater to the individuals needs, so I'd love feed back from others on there standard applications of choice.

[meborc]

somehow i really hate xine... i have no idea why... i just hate it... :) so i use vlc (which is DA BEST program ever)

for music i use simple audacious... highly skinnable and easy-to-use-out-of-sight player... i don't need to have a full screen of gui just to listen to my music

some times i don't use these two, i instead use elisa (which needs some other libs to be installed to watch youtube from internet and listen to shoutcast)

i used to use pidgin, but i found that emesene supports offline messages sent to me... and it hase a nice gui (don't be scared, the icons in the list can be made small)

[tigerplug]

Music Player - Songbird 0.5 (Powered by Mozilla)


Am I the only one that doesn't like it?

[chucky chuckaluck]

i don't like xine either (and also, for no apparent reason) and songbird has never really clicked with me. i've come to prefer more terminal apps to gui apps, not just because i'm hardcore cool, but because i really don't do all that much with them ("so...like... how do i just play a song?")

i like mplayer for video.

i've turned from my once beloved mpd+ncmpc to the simpler cplay.

i love feh (image viewer plus). i've used it for a long time and use it for a variety of things.

even though i have leafpad installed, i almost always instinctively use nano. i tried to get used to vi, but i just don't care that much.

screen is great. using cplay instead of mpd, if i want to keep the music going while switching wm's, i can start cplay in screen and it'll keep running no matter what i'm doing.

i use gmail, so i don't need a mail app.

i'm disatified with something about every browser i've tried, but i've found myself using firefox the most.

gimp is the app i've used consistantly from the beginning. for me, there is nothing better.

despite my minimal arch setup, i use k3b for burning. it's never failed me and the trumpet call is hilarious.

[fktt]

i don't love totem, but i use it from time to time, i LOVE xine.

i have high hopes for songbird, but imho its not ready enough to my needs,
so i use audacious still alot.

meh, but in the end of the day, to each their own.

[barbedsaber]

everytime I use Mplayer to play movies, the sound ends up a few seconds after the video, that is irritating, and I am sick of totem, so I will give VLC another go.

[Tom--d]

Me too, I never really liked the xine. No reason again :\

My set up is.

Totem (gstreamer) - Video player

Rhythmbox - Music player

Email - Firefox

Interent - Firefox

MSN - emesene
I just use the standard image viewer :D
I think I might change.

Transmission - torrents

And I love them all! :D

[kpkeerthi]

Movie Player - VLC

Music Player - Rhythmbox (will be replaced by banshee 1.0 when it hits final). Sometimes I use audacious for adhoc playback.

E-mail - Thunderbird

Internet - Firefox 3.0

PDF - Adobe Acrobat Reader

Photo Organizer - F-Spot (I don't like using Wine in any form in Linux)

Image Viewer - EOG

Image Editor - The GIMP

Instant Messaging - Pidgin

Torrent - Deluge

[AndyCooll]

Music Player - Songbird 0.5 (Powered by Mozilla)


Am I the only one that doesn't like it?
Nope. I've never been impressed with it either ...but then again I've managed to avoid iTunes too. And for similar reasons I struggle with Rhythmbox. Matter of preference I suppose, and mine are the Amarok/Exaile approach.

Apart from the audio player, for which I tend to move between Amarok, Exaile and Rhythmbox for, these days I tend to stick with the defaults since they my needs are fairly basic. I've done too many installs/reinstalls to be bothered going through a list of alternative/additional apps to install.

:cool:

[karellen]

Music Player - Songbird 0.5 (Powered by Mozilla)


Am I the only one that doesn't like it?

no, you're not ;)
for music - audacious/amarok
for videos - vlc all the way
browsing - firefox
mail - kmail/evolution
viewer - evince
writing - abiword
im - pidgin
photos - ghtumb
torrent - ktorrent/deluge

[tdrusk]

I use
Firefox
Pidgin
Rhythmbox
Movie Player
GIMP
OpenOffice
Eclipse
Terminal

as you can see I keep my most used apps in a convenient location (see attached)

[jariku]

Movie Player - VLC
Music Player - Rhythmbox (mostly for Jamendo support and crossfading)
E-mail - Thunderbird w/ Enigmail
Internet - Firefox
PDF - Evince
Photo Organizer - Picasa
Image Viewer - Eye of Gnome
Image Editor - The Gimp
Instant Messaging - Pidgin
BitTorrent - KTorrent
Office - OpenOffice (MS Word for some university projects)

[cgm]

Anyone else use Foobar for playing music (using wine)? Have tried all the above but until Linux or music apps inlude a good equalizer, Foobar, for me, the only way to coax decent sound out of my Cambridge Soundworks computer speakers! With Foobar running in Wine, I now only boot into windows for a quick game of Virtual Pool!

[Bigtime_Scrub]

I like Totem (it just works, I like that), Pidgen, Azereus (Transmission is decent too, but sometimes you need a torrent d/ler with some more features), and AcetoneISO (its like Deamon tools for Linux!).

I can't give OpenOffice enough praise too. It does everything I need it to do. I will never have to pay for MicroSoft Office(nor will I have to find a way to crack it like I used to do years ago) because I get all that I need from it. I can even use it for college with research papers, presentations, and I get a spreadsheet to boot. I have yet to find a feature that I miss although Im sure its not as full featured as Office.

I never used an email client before because Outlook was so dreadful to me. I hate Outlook with a passion but maybe now that I use Linux I will start.

Compiz-Fusion is awesome as is Scribus.




There are 2 programs I run in wine.

DVD Shrink (I know there are native Linux programs that can compress but I really dont know how they work. I never took the time to learn them and this will spit out compressed ISO files ready to go if you're into DVD archiving.)

and I recently found 7-zip. It compressing files more efficiently then standard zip and it can manage tar files too.

[geoken]

Why fspot as an image viewer? I can understand if you're using the library management features, but for pic viewing alone it seems kind of wastefull.

[AmishFury]

Movie Player - VLC
Music Player - Exaile (if rhythmbox ever gets replaygain support i'll probably ditch exaile)
E-mail - Thunderbird
Internet - Firefox
PDF - Evince
Photo Organizer - AmishFury
Image Viewer - Eye of Gnome
Image Editor - The Gimp (i still hate the interface)
IRC - XChat
BitTorrent - deluge

[monstermudder78]

Movie Player - VLC
Music Player - Exaile
E-mail - Evolution w/ Alltray
Internet - Firefox
IRC - XChat
Image Viewer - Eye of Gnome
Image Editor - The Gimp
Instant Messaging - Pidgin

[anotherdisciple]

Movie Player - VLC
Music Player - Exaile
E-mail - Thunderbird
Internet - Firefox
Image Viewer -I don't use one... but I'm going to try Eye of Gnome
Image Editor - The Gimp
Instant Messaging - Pidgin

[Mazza558]

Movie Player - Totem

Music Player - Banshee 1.0 Beta

E-mail - I don't use any programs, just google mail.

Internet - Firefox 3.0 RC1

PDF - Whatever the Ubuntu default is

Photo Organizer - Picasa

Image Viewer - Whatever the Ubuntu default is

Image Editor - The Gimp

Instant Messaging - emesene

[hessiess]

movie player- VLC
music -rythembox
image editing- GIMP
3D -blender
video editing -blender
compositing -blender
vector graphics -inkskape
photo(mostly textures) organising- nautilus
internet -firefox
Email -firefox

[y6FgBn)~v]

movie player - VLC
music player - xfmedia
Image viewer - ristretto
Image editing - GIMP
Word processing - Abiword
Number crunching - gnumeric
IM - Pidgin
IRC - Xchat
Internet - firefox
Email - thunderbird /w lightning for calendars

[durand]

Anyone else use Foobar for playing music (using wine)? Have tried all the above but until Linux or music apps inlude a good equalizer, Foobar, for me, the only way to coax decent sound out of my Cambridge Soundworks computer speakers! With Foobar running in Wine, I now only boot into windows for a quick game of Virtual Pool!

Have you tried FooBilliards? I discovered it last week and its really stunning though I'm not really a fan of snooker/pool. The only feature it seems to be missing is internet multiplayer.
http://foobillard.sunsite.dk/

I think there's a deb for ubuntu somewhere.

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My list of apps would be:

Movie player: Totem GStreamer or mplayer

Music player: *AmaroK*

Image editing/Viewing: The Gimp/Eye of Gnome

Vector Editing: *Inkscape*

3D: *Blender3D*

IM: *Pidgin*, emesene

Web Browser/Email: *Opera*

BitTorrent: *Deluge 0.6*, Transmission sometimes.

EDIT: I can't live without OpenOffice either.

[Exsecrabilus]

CD/DVD Burning: Nautilus CD/DVD Creator

Dock: AWN

Email: None

Image Organizer: None

Image Viewer: F-Spot

Image Editor: GIMP

Instant Messaging: Pidgin

Movie Player: Totem (Xine)

Music Player: Rhythmbox/Songbird

Office: OpenOffice.org

PDF Viewer: Adobe Reader 8

Web Browser: Firefox 3

[AndyCooll]

There are 2 programs I run in wine.

DVD Shrink (I know there are native Linux programs that can compress but I really dont know how they work. I never took the time to learn them and this will spit out compressed ISO files ready to go if you're into DVD archiving.)

and I recently found 7-zip. It compressing files more efficiently then standard zip and it can manage tar files too.
Linux has a port of 7-zip, it's called P7Zip.

:cool:

[durand]

Yeah, you install that and 7-zip functionality works within file-roller and gnome.

[zmjjmz]

Heh, I have multiple apps installed for doing a lot of things.

Calculator: Qalculate or sometimes I just use python.
Photo editing: GIMP
Photo libraries: F-Spot
Scanner: gscan2pdf
Image viewing: gThumb
Animation: QFlash or Ktoon
Torrents: I rarely download torrents, and when I did I used Opera's built in one, but sometimes I'll use Azureus, and now I just don't care and let Transmission handle it.
Web browsing: Oy g'volt, here it comes...
Dillo, Epiphany (default until FF3 is stable), FF3b5, Kazehakase, Opera 9.5b which is really crashy, Links2, Songbird, and Thunderbrowse.
IM: Pidgin, Skype.
E-mail: Thunderbird
IRC: Xchat
FTP: gFTP
Terminal: mrxvt
Office: OpenOffice
Text editing: Gedit or nano
Video Playing: VLC
Music Streams: Streamtuner + VLC or Rythmbox.
Music Playing: Rythmbox or Songbird (I'd use Pympd if I could figure it out...)
Calendar: Rainlendar2
PDF: ePDFViewer.
Movie Editing: Open Movie Editor
Vector: Inkscape
Font making: Fontforge.
There's more, but I have a ton of applications I don't need...

[cardinals_fan]

OS: SLAX
WM: dwm
Browser: Opera
Text Editor: Vim/Kate
IDE: Geany/NetBeans
Media Player: RealPlayer (I know, I know)
Email: Gmail web, or Mutt
Image Viewer: GQview, looking for Qt replacement
Image Editor: Gimp/Picasa
PDF: Kpdf
IM: Kopete, looking for a good command line app
Office: Koffice/Google Docs
Burning: K3B
Terminal Emulator: Urxvt
Calculator: Kcalc/Ruby
Audio Editing: Audacity
Font Viewing: Kfontview
Archiving: p7zip