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Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by bsharitt »

Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: I'm pretty much all web apps, and would actually like not having evolution or thunderbird installed by default. I think email clients are something to leave up to the users to specifically install

Terminal: Gnome Terminal

IDE: Visual Studio Code. I don't care if it's installed by default, but the ability to install out of the box without a web visit and .deb download would be great.

File manager: I guess I use Nautilus by default, but don't take that as an endorsement

Basic Text Editor: I use vim, but Gedit suffices.

IRC/Messaging Client: Like email, I think this should be left out of a base install these days.

PDF Reader: Evnince it fine, but ePub support in it, or what ever PDF/document viewer is default would be wonderful(bonuse points for mobi too)

Office Suite: Libre Office seems to be the only real option and it's fine

Calendar: Gnome Calendar

Video Player: I used to install VLC day, one, but actually have kept Totem lately

Music Player: I don't think there's any good options, Rhythmbox is still much better than Gnome Music if you're tempted to go all Gnome with the default DE switch

Photo Viewer: EOG is fine, just don't make a big heavy gallery app the default opener even if one is installed by default.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by mycat »

tombert wrote: post #62

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Evolution Terminal: Gnome Terminal IDE: No IDE by default. Most users aren't developers File manager: Files/Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Atom IRC/Messaging Client: Nothing, let user install their own. PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: I don't really like it, but LibreOffice is probably the best option right now. Personally, I'd almost prefer an option to just have LaTeX and TeXStudio…

Using electron app for _basic_ editor?

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by luis3380 »

Web Browser: chrome Email Client: thunderbird Terminal: IDE: codeblocks File manager: nautilus Basic Text Editor: gedit IRC/Messaging Client: ??? PDF Reader: evince Video Player: vlc Office Suite: libreoffice (last version) Music Player: clementine

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by PleaseHelpMe »

Web Browser: Firefox/ Chrome

Email Client: No Email Client.

Terminal: Terminator

IDE: No IDE.

File manager: Nautilus/ Thunar. (I was looking for something with dual panel view but no good solution seems to exist right now)

Basic Text Editor: Gedit/ Sublime.

IRC/Messaging Client: No IRC/MEssaging client or Hexchat.

PDF Reader: Evince/ qPdfViewer

Office Suite: Libreoffice (But do we have an alternative?)

Calendar: Gnome Calendar seems fine.

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Clementine

Photo Viewer: gThumb

Screen recording: OBS/ Kazam.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by tombert »

mycat wrote: post #192
tombert wrote: post #62

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Evolution Terminal: Gnome Terminal IDE: No IDE by default. Most users aren't developers File manager: Files/Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Atom IRC/Messaging Client: Nothing, let user install their own. PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: I don't really like it, but LibreOffice is probably the best option right now. Personally, I'd almost prefer an option to just have LaTeX and TeXStudio…

Using electron app for _basic_ editor?

I don't use it much personally, since I'm basically married to Vim, I just like it better than Gedit, and sublime text is proprietary.

You're probably right though, an electron app is a bit heavy.

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by acchan »

Shorel wrote: post #182
zanny wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Gnome runner and Krunner from KDE both do this. I'm not sure if the Gnome variant supports arbitrary commands like Krunner does, but they at least have opening applications, unit conversion, and web search.

It's not the same. He means something that can access all commands available in a given application, not a launcher. Ubuntu's Unity has that, giving search access to all the menu entries in the opened application. Sublime Text implementation is even more powerful, giving search access to all commands, and the list includes commands provided by extra packages added to Sublime. So I can do, for example: 'ctrl+shift+p',…

https://github.com/p-e-w/plotinus

Re: Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

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Post by rvern »

Web Browser: Firefox, not Chromium, Epiphany or anything else.

Email Client: Evolution, Thunderbird if you really don't want to pick Evolution. Do install one by default.

Terminal: GNOME Terminal.

IDE: none.

File manager: Nautilus.

Basic Text Editor: gedit.

IRC/Messaging Client: none, Pidgin, Polari, HexChat.

PDF Reader: Evince.

Office Suite: LibreOffice; LibreOffice Base should be excluded.

Calendar: GNOME Calendar.

Video Player: Totem, not VLC.

Music Player: Rhythmbox, perhaps GNOME Music in a future release.

Photo Viewer: Eye of GNOME, maybe include Shotwell too.

Screen recording: GNOME Shell's built-in recording.

Also include file-roller, gnome-calculator, gnome-characters (not gucharmap), gnome-clocks, gnome-disks, baobab, gnome-documents, gnome-font-viewer, gnome-system-monitor, yelp, gnome-logs, bijiben, seahorse, gnome-screenshot, gnome-software, and gnome-weather, and consider including gnome-boxes, devhelp, gnome-dictionary, gitg, gimp, gnome-maps, gnome-tweak-tool, and deja-dup.

This is almost exactly identical to Fedora Workstation's default apps. In general, I have a strong preference for embracing the GNOME apps and GTK+ 3. The only exceptions are Firefox instead of Epiphany and LibreOffice instead of AbiWord and Gnumeric.

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