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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by laumars » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 3:58 PM UTC

brian_herman wrote: post #12

Kind of offtopic but is there a linux terminal program that when you paste a bunch of commands with carriage returns asks you if you want to continue?

I'm not sure I understand your question correctly but KDE's terminal (konsole) warns you if you try to paste large amounts of text

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by a_humean » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:00 PM UTC

Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome

Email Client: Gmail web

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: VS Code

File manager: nautilus

Basic Text Editor: gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: xchat

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: Office360 web, LibreOffice

Calendar: Gnome Calendar, Google Calendar web

Video Player: smplayer

Music Player: cmus, Spotify non-free

Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by xiaq » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:01 PM UTC

brian_herman wrote: post #12

Kind of offtopic but is there a linux terminal program that when you paste a bunch of commands with carriage returns asks you if you want to continue?

Some terminal emulators / shells use some heuristics, but the most reliable way is to use a combination of a terminal emulator and shell that support bracketed paste mode. This article (https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste) lists some terminal emulators that supports bracketed paste, and a zsh plugin that makes zsh handle bracketed paste in a safe manner.

As an alternative to zsh, Elvish (https://github.com/elves/elvish) supports bracketed paste out of the box. When you paste anything that includes a carriage return, Elvish will insert a literal return instead of executing it.

(Disclaimer: I am the author of Elvish.)

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by Kostic » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:04 PM UTC

sametmax wrote: post #28

Kostic wrote: post #20

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal, IDE: Visual Studio Code (although it's not a fully fledged IDE) File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Gedit IRC/Messaging Client: Polari, HexChat PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Gnome Calendar Video Player: Totem Music Player: Lollypop[1] Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome Screen recording: Peek[2] [0] https://github…

Same but vlc for videos

VLC is indeed superior in comparison with Totem but it does not integrate nicely into GNOME as Totem would.

MPV is also a very capable player. There is even an GTK frontend which obeys GNOME HIG and which is called gnome-mpv[0]. Maybe it would be a nice pick for the default video player.

[0] https://github.com/gnome-mpv/gnome-mpv

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by koot » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:05 PM UTC

Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: Emacs / Sublime Text 3 / Geany

File Manager: Thunar / PCManFM / Caja (Anything but Nautilus they stripped to many features after 2.32)

Basic Text Edtor: Gedit

IRC / Messaging Client: Hexchat / Pidgin

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Gnome Calendar

Video Player: VLC / SMPlayer

Music Player: Deadbeef / Audacious / Rhythmbox

Photo Viewer: EOG

Screen Recording: ???

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by toxicbits » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:05 PM UTC

Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: Geary

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: Gnome Builder

File manager: Gnome Files

Basic Text Editor: Gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: Polari

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Gnome Calendar

Video Player: Gnome MPV

Music Player: Lollypop

Photo Viewer: Gthumb

Screen recording: Peek

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by gkya » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:05 PM UTC

I'm using the latest Ubuntu GNOME, and I can say that I'm pleased with how it is. Using GNOME's own software where available is going to be better IMHO.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by enzanki_ars » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC

jhasse wrote: post #15

Freak_NL wrote: post #2

For most I would say the current defaults more than suffice. Web Browser: Firefox. Of the two modern web browsers that are applicable (Chromium being the other), Mozilla and Firefox are more in tune with the free software mentality many users of Ubuntu adhere. It is an excellent browser as well. Email Client: Thunderbird? Are there mature alternatives that will work for most people that use a standalone mail applicat…

> Video Player: Something that supports everything you can throw at it. I would go with mpv there instead of the obvious VLC. It just so much faster and bug-free!

And if you love the command line, MPV (https://mpv.io/) is an even faster and contains less bugs than VLC.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by williamdclt » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium, Chrome

Email Client: none

Terminal: gnome-terminal, terminator

IDE: none

File manager: DE default

Basic Text Editor: Gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: none

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: Libre office

Calendar: ???

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: ???

Photo Viewer: DE default

Screen recording: ???

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by tradesmanhelix » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

Web Browser: Firefox ESR, Waterfox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Konsole

IDE: vim, emacs, Atom

File manager: Dolphin

Basic Text Editor: kwrite, gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: irssi

PDF Reader: Okular

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Lightning Thunderbird Plugin

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Clementine, cmus

Photo Viewer: Gwenview

Screen recording: Peek