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Whatever file browser is chosen, please include the damn up button, and please no buttons replacing the address bar. Also, PLEASE 'open terminal here' as a default option on right click.
Nemo has those. (At least i think the right click is possible with plugins.)
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…
Web Browser: Chrome Email Client: None File manager: fman (non-free) Basic Text Editor: Sublime Video Player: vlc
Another humble wish: a subl/vscode like ctrl+shift+p multifunctional menu, where you can write commands, launch things, etc.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I downvoted because I don't think it's constructive to force Emacs on everyone. In my post, I thought of including vim as the default text editor (I have set it as default on my work and home computers, also when opening a text/code file from a browser or file manager) and definitely as the default terminal editor (instead of nano), but many people are just not going to make use of it. If you want something specific,…
Hey, I'm not forcing Emacs on anyone! The poster asked to "submit the apps you find most useful in Linux", so I listed what I use, honest-to-God. I don't see how a legit datapoint deserves a downvote, but whatevs.
Email Client: dont include one
Terminal: stable one with wayland support
IDE: vs code
File manager: mate's
Basic Text Editor: no gedit for sure
IRC/Messaging Client: dont bother to include one
PDF Reader: smallest and stable one
Office Suite: dont include
Calendar: no good apps are there
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: include only one, no need to photo manager
Screen recording: include the stable
IDE: eclipse
Basic Text Editor: gedit
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: Vlc
Screen recording: Obs
If I may make a suggestion: I'd rather have a quizz at first install and user account creation that would ask what users want with sane defaults hiding behind an `I don't know` checkbox (ie: don't configure any mail client if people just use GMail). It would definitely ease the adoption from first users instead of throwing a huge pile of shortcuts to their face when they click the apps menu for the first time. I woul…
I'd love for it to be made obsolete though :)
It is really interesting from an integration perspective to consider all three:
* Firefox pulls in gtk3 and gtk2 dependencies.
* VLC pulls in Qt and sdl1.
* LO pulls in Python.
Of note, both Firefox and VLC use ffmpeg, which is nice.
But my macro point - the most popular applications for Linux right now all use pretty much entirely different infrastructure. All three pull in at least a dozen library or package dependencies each, there is little overlap, and between them you have the entirety of GTK and Qt. On top of that, they are about 130MB, 50MB, and 400MB installed respectively.
I'm not going to make conclusions about how this relates to the desire to write composable software, or how these various monolith projects are also the most desired. It is just interesting that just from the big three staples you are looking at more space used on installation media than a CD just from them and their immediate dependencies. Qt alone is around 400MB including webengine. Gtk is another 90MB. So you are looking at over 1GB of binaries, libraries, and art assets to run 3 programs, and at runtime they will all be pulling these respective libraries into resident memory with almost no overlap.