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Email Client: emacs
Terminal: urxvt
IDE: emacs
File manager: emacs
Basic Text Editor: emacs
IRC/Messaging Client: emacs
PDF Reader: emacs + epdftools
Office Suite: n/a
Calendar: emacs
Video Player: n/a
Music Player: emacs
Photo Viewer: feh
Screen recording: n/a
Email Client: Evolution
Terminal: Gnome Teminal
IDE: Atom
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: Document Viewer
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: Image Viewer
Screen recording: ???
My basic suggestion would be to keep it simple, so stay with the GNOME apps where you can. Also it might make sense to make a distinction between what people feel is a good choice of software and which of those should be included in the default install.
IMHO stuff like and IDE, e-mail client, IRC client, messaging client, office suite and screen recording don't have to be included in the default install as long as it's easy enough for everyone to add them later (or customize during install).
Regarding specific items: - Terminal: gnome-terminal, but if possible look into make the tabs a bit less tall and fix the search dialog so it can be closed by pressing escape
- File manager/photo viewer: nautilus, but look into fixing the preview (spacebar) so that it allows opening the preview window once and then allow navigating through all files in the chosen directory using the arrow keys
- Calendar: gnome-calender, but make sure you use gnome 3.24 or later so it support dark mode
- Screenshots: gnome-screenshot, but please fix it so it's possible to take multiple screenshots in succession. Right one has to close and open it to do so.
- Video player: Technically mpv, maybe with the gnome-mpv GUI. Though mpv might be too difficult to use for some users?
- Music player: Imho none of them is really good enough :( Elementary's noise might be at some point
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!
Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: gnome terminal is ok IDE: none. I'm using emacs for all the things. Which standard IDE could handle all languages well? I think this is for developers and we pick our tools. If this is a IDE for learning, I don't know if this is the right way to learn. Maybe vim. File manager: nautilus is ok Basic Text Editor: gedit should be ok. I never use it because I don't…
Gnome has a smorke screen recorder built in already. Press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R to record
I googled for the package name of that screen recorder, with no success, but Green Recorder is pretty good.
I also don't seem to have an embedded screen shapshotter (PrntScreen works). I've been using shutter for ages.
I'd love for Chromium to be included by default and for that Amazon app to be removed. I have no idea what the Amazon thing even is but it's just Windows 10-esque spamware to me. As for IDE, it'd be really cool to have Arduino included, but some might consider that spamware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Arduino is a horrible IDE. It doesn't even have high DPI support, making it entirely unusable in my XPS 15.
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Its foolishness to try to find a whole list of apps that use the same gui toolkit instead of the best apps, python is installed by default on every linux system under the sun, and you can't just convert from installed size to memory usage. The universe just doesn't work that way.
Its not installed size to memory usage. Its shared common libraries vs unshared libraries. Pulling in Qt means every Qt app will load so's for all the same things the core GTK libraries do, and take up memory that in a purely GTK environment would never be used because all the apps shared the same libraries in memory. This also dramatically affects the performance of app switching and opening new apps. This is how An…
Web Browser: conkeror Email Client: emacs Terminal: urxvt IDE: emacs File manager: emacs Basic Text Editor: emacs IRC/Messaging Client: emacs PDF Reader: emacs + epdftools Office Suite: n/a Calendar: emacs Video Player: n/a Music Player: emacs Photo Viewer: feh Screen recording: n/a
Email Client: Geary
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: Eclipse
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Messenger for desktop
PDF Reader: Default on old version
Office Suite: WPS office
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: TOTEM
Music Player: Evince
Photo Viewer: ???
Music Player: Rhythmbox
Photo Viewer: shotwell
Screen recording: default on old version