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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by mattl »

dannysu wrote: post #81
haspok wrote: post #29

I have but one humble wish: when I want to start the calculator app I open the Dash and type "calc". However for some reason LibreOffice Calc has higher priority than the Calculator app, so I always have to select it specifically (instead of just pressing Enter) - even though I might have never used the LibreOffice Calc on this computer. Can you make the LibreOffice Calc app lower priority in the Dash please. Thank y…

I think in GNOME it learns which one you use more frequently and have that first instead.

You'd think so, but no.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by mattl »

Rusky wrote: post #59
mod wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This plagued me for a couple of years! Yes! Either make it higher or learn which ones we actually click.

Gnome Shell seems to remember the last opened one. That doesn't really help when you actually do use Calc occasionally, though.

Doesn't seem to remember at all for me.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by jakobdabo »

Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: URXVT

IDE: Qt Creator, Eclipse, Geany

File manager: Thunar

Basic Text Editor: Mousepad

IRC/Messaging Client: Riot, Gajim

PDF Reader: Evince, Zathura

Office Suite: Libre Office

Video Player: VLC Media Player, mplayer, mpv

Music Player: DeaDBeeF

Photo Viewer: ???

Screen Recording: ???

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by ameliaquining »

Web browser: Chromium, Firefox

Email client: Gmail

Terminal: gnome-terminal

IDE: Atom, Emacs, Visual Studio Code

Basic text editor: Atom, gedit, nano, Emacs

PDF Reader: Chromium, evince, Adobe Acrobat (non-free)

Office Suite: Google Docs, LibreOffice

Calendar: Google Calendar

Video player: Totem, mplayer

Music player: Totem, mplayer

Photo viewer: Eye of GNOME, Shotwell

Screen recording: RecordMyDesktop

And a category that's been traditionally missing from Linux distros and really shouldn't be:

Simple raster graphics editor (like Microsoft Paint): GNU Paint

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by moosingin3space »

Kostic wrote: post #34
sametmax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

IIRC, mpv already has native Wayland support, whereas VLC's was lacking. gnome-mpv is pretty nice, though.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by moosingin3space »

aruggirello wrote: post #97
jasonkostempski wrote: post #50

Web Browser: Firefox unmodified (e.g. no Ubuntu start page) Email Client: None, users still using desktop clients know what they want and how to get it. Terminal: No preference IDE: None, this should be chosen by the user if they want one. File manager: No preference Basic Text Editor: No preference IRC/Messaging Client: None, same situation as email PDF Reader: No preference Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Like…

> calendar you can add events to (does a modern desktop calendar for Linux even exist)? I don't know about Gnome - but KDE has both a desktop calendar/organizer app (Korganizer) and a (unrelated) Plasma widget for the toolbar - the gorgeous Event Calendar Plasma widget, which shows your Google Calendar events.

There is a Gnome calendar app: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

MrBingley wrote: post #61
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #55

PDF reader: lightweight greenfield project that just puts pdf.js in a GTK3 webview My answer to all of the other questions, though, is "nothing that's suitable for noobs". To this end, please make it easy to clean out the gunk and bring in power user tools.

Do you, by chance, use Arch Linux?

Sometimes!

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

#110

Post by fpgaminer »

mattl wrote: post #101
dannysu wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think in GNOME it learns which one you use more frequently and have that first instead.

You'd think so, but no.

It does, but it has a short memory. If you select Office by accident, it'll then start showing that first again for awhile.
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