deniseweird Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 "starter" I meant, not "started". Did the edit button get removed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted July 22, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted August 11, 2008 Share Posted August 11, 2008 I don't think you get away with not including Mozilla Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElliottLan Posted August 13, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted August 13, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted August 17, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted August 18, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 18, 2008 Go-oo actually looks pretty nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nvllsvm Posted August 18, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted August 18, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vivicidal- Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 +1 for conky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted September 13, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonRedMk Member Posted September 14, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 no Cairo-dock dose not need a proprietary gfx drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 14, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGMurdockIII Posted September 24, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p858snake Posted September 26, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted September 26, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p858snake Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Thanks, Peachey! That was awesome! [flattery]I Know, All my work is.[/flattery] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy-Dude Posted December 22, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomp Posted December 22, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaszta Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Aptana Studio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted December 22, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted December 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 22, 2008 We're planning on making our own installer. It will be Wubi-ish, but better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomp Posted December 23, 2008 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. https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=710430 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted December 23, 2008 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 comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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