hidden gems: software that surprises you

**satanselbow** · October 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by keithpeter

I don't like the 'song' metaphor (classical CDs often have 30+ tracks on them).

OMG! I've seen it all now! "Classical" and "Birmingham" in the same post

abcde rocks btw... in a brummie classical kinda way

**krapp** · October 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by keithpeter

I don't like the 'song' metaphor (classical CDs often have 30+ tracks on them).

Do you mean how iTunes and the like resort to strict Artist - Song tags? Yeah, I hate that too.

Is the artist Bach or Gidon Kremer?

**donkyhotay** · October 21st, 2011

Yakuake, I prefer gnome to KDE but this program is so useful for me I consider it worth installing all the KDE libs on top of gnome just for it. It really makes it easy to flip between GUI and CLI depending on what I'm trying to do.

**keithpeter** · October 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by satanselbow

OMG! I've seen it all now! "Classical" and "Birmingham" in the same post

abcde rocks btw... in a brummie classical kinda way

I resemble that remark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Conservatoire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...hony_Orchestra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Choirs_Festival

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Skempton

PS if you don't know Skempton's Lento, listen to it now

**Megaptera** · October 21st, 2011

Originally Posted by donkyhotay

Yakuake, I prefer gnome to KDE but this program is so useful for me I consider it worth installing all the KDE libs on top of gnome just for it. It really makes it easy to flip between GUI and CLI depending on what I'm trying to do.

Have you looked at Guake?! "Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome (in the style of Yakuake for KDE, Tilda or the terminal used in Quake)"

http://guake.org/

**donkyhotay** · October 23rd, 2011

Thats new, last time I looked for a gnome-based program similar to yakuake the only thing I could find was tilda (which was absolute rubbish). Admittedly that was about 4-5 years ago. Thanks for suggesting that I'll have to check it out. Although it's not a big deal I just hate seeing my computer install a ton of KDE lib files for one little program that by itself is pretty small.

**Flymo** · October 23rd, 2011

+1 for Dia!

**Megaptera** · October 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by donkyhotay

Thats new, ....Thanks for suggesting that I'll have to check it out. ....

You're welcome! Hope it's of use.

**keithpeter** · October 23rd, 2011

Originally Posted by satanselbow

Dia is major geek-chic and much more intuitive than Visio could ever dream of being... OK over egging it a bit but having battled with Visio a few time before Dia is a breath of fresh gnu

Nice, any way of 'docking' the floating toolbar? Have to keep alt tabbing when drawing window maximised...