deniseweird Share Posted July 21, 2008 "starter" I meant, not "started". Did the edit button get removed? Link to post Share on other sites
Barney T. Author Administrators Share Posted July 22, 2008 Either pre-installed or in the repos is fine......... it will probably need to be pre-installed if it is a new app, though. Link to post Share on other sites
thealexweb Share Posted August 11, 2008 I don't think you get away with not including Mozilla Firefox. Link to post Share on other sites
ElliottLan Share Posted August 13, 2008 wicd, scite and xchat http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html http://www.xchat.org/ Link to post Share on other sites
Barney T. Author Administrators Share Posted August 13, 2008 I don't think you get away with not including Mozilla Firefox. We'll either use Firefox or IceWeasel (Firefox for Debian.....) Link to post Share on other sites
DGMurdockIII Share Posted August 17, 2008 Conky - http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on Linux and BSD PIM Chandler - http://chandlerproject.org/ Spicebird - http://www.spicebird.com/ IM instantbird - http://www.instantbird.com/ (very good app) Pidgin - http://pidgin.im/ digsby - http://www.digsby.com/ Office Suite Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/( i would use this or Go-oo) Go-oo(Open Office) - http://go-oo.org/ KOffice - http://www.koffice.org/ Gnome Office - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice Link to post Share on other sites
Simon Veteran Share Posted August 18, 2008 Go-oo actually looks pretty nice... Link to post Share on other sites
nvllsvm Share Posted August 18, 2008 wicd - Network management Pidgin - IM client Geany - text editor/lightweight IDE Mirage - image viewer SMPlayer - mplayer frontend Amarok - audio player w/ library XMMS - audio player K3b - disc burning Link to post Share on other sites
DGMurdockIII Share Posted August 18, 2008 Lxde - http://lxde.org/ Avant Window Navigator - http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/ gDesklets - http://www.gdesklets.de/ Screenlets - http://screenlets.org/index.php/Home KolourPaint - http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/ Xpdf - http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ DeVeDe - http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html mac4lin - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/ Link to post Share on other sites
DGMurdockIII Share Posted September 13, 2008 Cairo-dock - http://www.cairo-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=Accueil〈=en GNOME Do - http://do.davebsd.com/ GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver and GNOME Launch Box. Katapult - http://katapult.kde.org/ time tracking for masses - http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/ Link to post Share on other sites
CrimsonRedMk Member Share Posted September 14, 2008 I suggest lighttpd for a quick, easy http server. Useful and small. Also, DGMurdockIII, does Cairo-dock need any proprietary gfx drivers? Edit: LXDE...looks good, downloading it now to try it out. Link to post Share on other sites
DGMurdockIII Share Posted September 14, 2008 no Cairo-dock dose not need a proprietary gfx drivers Link to post Share on other sites
markjensen Veteran Share Posted September 14, 2008 ...Edit: LXDE...looks good, downloading it now to try it out. Just for the sake of clarity, LXDE is just Openbox. It has a theme that comes with it. It comes with a text editor, too. :ermm: It is one of those things that is getting far more attention than it deserves, imo. Link to post Share on other sites
DGMurdockIII Share Posted September 24, 2008 PhotoRec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Dia - http://live.gnome.org/Dia open source alternative Windows program Visio Gnumeric spreadsheet - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ Cinelerra - http://cinelerra.org/ QtWvDialer - http://www.mtoussaint.de/qtwvdialer.html Lineak - http://lineak.sourceforge.net/ Linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards WiFi Radar - http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/ Simple Backup - http://sbackup.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Link to post Share on other sites
p858snake Share Posted September 26, 2008 Here is a list of all the applications that have been recommended so far http://www.shiftlinux.net/wiki/index.php/R...ed_Applications Link to post Share on other sites
Barney T. Author Administrators Share Posted September 26, 2008 Here is a list of all the applications that have been recommended so farhttp://www.shiftlinux.net/wiki/index.php/R...ed_Applications Thanks, Peachey! That was awesome! Link to post Share on other sites
p858snake Share Posted September 27, 2008 Thanks, Peachey! That was awesome! [flattery]I Know, All my work is.[/flattery] Link to post Share on other sites
Happy-Dude Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) How about including Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ;; the GIMP of Illustrator; http://lifehacker.com/5115354/manipulate-v...source-inkscape ) and OpenOffice 3 (instead of 2;; http://www.openoffice.org/ ) ? EDIT 2-- My mistake, I've just looked at the DistroWatch page and found that mono is already to be included in Shift Linux. ;) http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=shift Edited December 22, 2008 by Happy-Dude Link to post Share on other sites
Zomp Share Posted December 22, 2008 Hi All,We were mulling over what would make for some great "killer apps" for Shift One. I'm not talking about just the standard package set, but something that would make our distro a "must have". From other user suggestions: +1 for Wifi Radar +1 for Conky +1 for gDesklets But... which is the difference between having pre-installed Wifi Radar (or Conky or gDesklets) or install them after having installed the distro? My idea is that one needs a new killer-way to use such application, or a new-killer way to install them if they are not included in the pre-installed software. The following is my opinion, like a jumble. When I think of a killer app, I mind a new app, or a new GUI for an existing app so that command line or configuration file editing is not required. I am primarily a notebook user who aims to work easily with Linux as I do with Windows. So, I would greatly appreciate all frontend utilities that I have not found yet in linux like the following: - a script that automatically switchs between notebook and external monitor when the external monitor is plugged/unplugged, besides to be able to choose bewteen notebook/external/both by hotkey and some desktop menu item - some scripts that make stand-by and hibernation fully working and offer me a GUI to choose how to make it (which partition to use, where to put hibernation file, and so on) - a fully working installation of truecrypt that avoids me to edit any configuration file and so on. Likewise, I would appreciate some preinstalled config files (and maybe a GUI to write config files) for Conky and gDesklet so to have several set of widgets to choose among. A more ambitious idea would be to build a new package manager system. Otherwise a new distro is just a new collection of existing software. Link to post Share on other sites
-Hiroshi- Share Posted December 22, 2008 Unsure if this was suggested, but adapt Wubi for use with Shift, it'll open up the amount of users big time.. since installing would be easy. Link to post Share on other sites
Simon Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2008 We're planning on making our own installer. It will be Wubi-ish, but better. Link to post Share on other sites
Zomp Share Posted December 23, 2008 We're planning on making our own installer. It will be Wubi-ish, but better. The cheatcode pair fromiso + persistent is the best and simplest way I know to try and work with a distro without the need to installing it and partitioning the hard disk. http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=710430 Link to post Share on other sites
Brian M. Veteran Share Posted December 23, 2008 We're planning on making our own installer. It will be Wubi-ish, but better. As far as I know, Wubi itself doesn't really do much except be a pretty front end - it just piles together a bunch of functions from other code and essentially runs it in the right order, so it shouldn't be too difficult to replicate/make a better version of it. Link to post Share on other sites
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