GNOME user feedback

[Dies]

So I just wanted to get a little feedback from GNOME users as to which apps you can't live without and which you can't live with. :D

So if you guys would list 5 apps that you just must have and 5 apps that you hate enough to remove on every install, I would appreciate it. :)

Feel free to also list 5 other items (that don't qualify as apps) that you need such as drivers, etc. ;)

Thanks.

Edit - Don't bother listing Nvidia or ATI drivers as those are a given.

[Dan]

GIMP
CinePaint
Inkscape
OOo (full install - all the goodies) Actually, come to think of it, maybe scratch the crippled fedora version of OOo in place of Oxygen Office.
HPLIP/Xsane (all the goodies)

And if I can have a few more ... Blender and Geany

Oh, yeah! And VLC, Xine and all the codecs/libs

[DavidMcCann]

Presumably you mean GNU things, rather than KDE things and general stuff like OO? GNU must-haves are Gnucash, GIMP, Gedit, Evince, Evolution, Gnome-Mplayer.

Other must-haves would be OpenOffice, Opera, Fontforge, Bluefish, Wine.

I don't have anything to remove, because I always do a custom installation, but an example of a program I hate would be Konqueror.

[Dies]

Presumably you mean GNU things...

I meant GTK+ apps for most part. Things which would go well with GNOME.

Though obviously I expect people will list apps like OO and mozilla apps, VLC like Dan listed, but definitely not looking for any KDE specific favorites like Konqueror. ;)

Then again I also expected a lot more people to have responded by now... :(

I'll put mine here, just for example

Must have

1. Geany
2. Devhelp
3. Agave
4. Inkscape
5. gconf-editor

Can't stand

1. Ekiga
2. Mono apps
3. "Iced Tea"
4. Most of the "system-config-" crowd
5. Useless services enabled by default.

[Wayne]

Apart from the usual office/productivity things, other must haves include:

gThumb
GWaei
gFTP
HandBrake
RhythmBox
Movie Player
Bluefish

Edit: Not really GTK apps but they're used often here:

Google Picasa
qBittorrent

Can't stand on my system:

Mono
Mono
Mono
Bluetooth
PackageKit

[robert-e]

Yes, on the system-config stuff, gedit, firefox

No on PulseAudio (screws up digital ham radio progs (gmfsk); at least make it easy to uninstall, open-office (even updates are about 200 M - puts me into FAP jail for 24 hours, so cannot install while connected to the net)...and yes, I agree with Wayne...forget Mono)

Regards,
Bob

[JN4OldSchool]

Things I must have on every Linux install:

Gimp
Scribus
Inkscape
OO.o
Audacious
wine - so I can run e-sword
K3b (though you probably didnt want to hear that)
...oh yeah, gedit. I use gedit no matter the WM/DE

Things I tend to remove:

Gnome. :D

[Thetargos]

GTK must haves:


gThumb
EOG
Inkscape
Exaile
Sound Conveter
Thunderbird
GConf-Editor
CairoDock
Compiz-Fusion
Deluge


Things I hate:


Ekiga
Evolution
F-Spot
Mono
BitTorrent (the default client)
Abiword
KDE (sorry... I try to use it every release, and every release I get back)


Other stuff I like and use (independently of the toolkit):


Audacity
Scribus
Xine
DVD::Rip
Avidemux (CLI/GTK)
Wine

[Igby]

GTK Must Haves:

gconf-editor
exaile
geany
gajim
guake


Things I don't like:

gnome-games
tomboy
rhythmbox
brasero
compiz

[micah1104]

Need:
Mozilla Firefox
Exaile Music Player
Pidgin
Xiphos Bible
Open Office

Don't:
Games
VOIP Calling
IBus
SELinux
Rhythmbox

Other:
ndiswrapper
amsn
gedit

[ghostdawg]

Things I like...
Firefox
Pidgin
Xchat
VLC

Things I don't like...
Ekiga
Evolution
F-Spot
Mono

Not a fan of KDE but it does have some kool apps!

[pete_1967]

... and 5 apps that you hate enough to remove on every install, I would appreciate it. :)

1: Gnome
2: Network Manager
3: All *Kits
4: Mono
5: GDM


So if you guys would list 5 apps that you just must have

...

[tripleninez]

things i need:

wine, brasero, mplayer, nautilus, jackaudio, ardour, Emacs, transmission, compiz, gimp, gconf-editor, terminal, gedit

things i hate

all games, Ekiga, Evolution, F-Spot, Mono, SElinux, tomboy, screensavers, most of the ugly themes that come with fedora!

others

wacom drivers, ck BFS, wineASIO, nautilus extensions, ICC, DockBarX

[CiaW]

5 things I always install: AbiWord, Gimp, liferea, xiphos, vlc (Gedit is basically 'default' right? I use that far more than I use abiword...)

1+ thing I remove or don't install: brasero, any mono apps

[Ihatewindows]

I know this is old...but, here you go:

Qalculate GTK. Simple, yet functional.
http://www.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/math/qalculate.html
Wine. The second best program ever.
http://www.winehq.org
Koffice. Office suite jam packed with goodies.
http://koffice.org
Age of Empires III (in Wine, of course!)
Wireshark.
And, if I may, one more:
K3B