Useful Applications

[Meanie]

I was thinking about discussing some of the applications we all use on pdaXrom. Since there are lots of applications available for pdaXrom, we each will have our own favourites which may be the same or different.

Maybe we should have a thread which discusses the most favourable applications depending on categories. There already is a thread on window managers, but I have not seen a thread on user applications yet so I though, let's start one.

There are several application categories that I can think of almost everyone would want to run and I think we should discuss what those are to find out what is most usable and popular. Well here goes:


Word Processing: AbiWord! what else?

SpreadSheet: Gnumeric! what else?

Browsers: Dillo (since it works best for most things), Firefox (slow but most feature rich),  links, lynx, others?

Email: Sylpheed! Thunderbird is a bit slow in comparison, what else?

FTP: gftp, what else?

Text Editor: does anyone use scite? or does everyone prefer leadpad? or even vim? what else?

PIM: KOPI/KAPI?, what else?

PDF: xpdf? epdfview? evince? which one is better? what else?

Dictionaries: stardict or qbedic, or both? what else?

IM: Gaim?, Xchat?, licq? what else?

Media Players: xmms, mplayer

Graphics: GIMP, GQView, GThumb, etc..?

File Managers: rox, emelfm? what else?

Terminal:  aterm, rxvt, putty? what else?

Other Tools: xarchiver, gps, kchmviewer, scrot, tuxcards ?

Are there any other applications that people love to use on pdaXrom?

[karlto]

Browsers: Dillo (since it works best for most things), Firefox (slow but most feature rich),  links, lynx, others?

This one is still a bit of an in-between, with Dillo too basic and Firefox too slow to start.

Email: Sylpheed! Thunderbird is a bit slow in comparison, what else?

Absolutely - Sylpheed is great.

Text Editor: does anyone use scite? or does everyone prefer leadpad? or even vim? what else?

I use SciTE because it does syntax highlighting - I would use vim, but I've never got it working 100% with my settings...

PIM: KOPI/KAPI?, what else?

gpe-calendar is a great simple app provided you can get a version with working alarms. Much faster too.

Media Players: xmms, mplayer

xmms hasn't annoyed me enough to use anything else yet - just don't suspend while it's playing from files on CF/SD

File Managers: rox, emelfm? what else?

aterm is much faster...

Other Tools: xarchiver, gps, kchmviewer, scrot, tuxcards ?

Tuxcards, pptp, xournal

[Antikx]

Word Processing: AbiWord works well for me.

SpreadSheet: Gnumeric works well for me.

Browsers: I haven't given Links a good test drive yet, but Dillo and Firefox are typically all I need.

Email: I use neither Sylpheed nor Thunderbird. I currently only use web based readers.

FTP: gftp works well for me.

Text Editor: I only use vi. If someone can get spell check working with VIM I would use it more. Leafpad is pretty good but tend to just use vi.

PIM: I prefer the GPE PIM suit.

PDF: I like XPDF and Evince.

Dictionaries: I Haven't given either stardict or qbedic a good test drive yet.

IM: I find Gaim is all I use, although I've been meaning to pop into the pdaXrom chat.

Media Players: mpd is pretty sweet but xmms and mplayer seem to be the standards.

Graphics: I've only used GQView, but it seems to be fine for what I need.

File Managers: I love Rox but haven't tried anything else.

Terminal:  I primary use Aterm, mostly because of the faux transparency.

Other Tools:
Console unziping, unraring, etc. and a comic book viewer, an app like notecase and a bible app like Gnome Sword Bible Study are my other standards.

Setting up multiple tty's and X11 through VNC would be nice too.

[Capn_Fish]

Word Processing: Abiword
Spreadsheet: Gnumeric
Browser: Dillo, but looking for others
EMail: Sylpheed
FTP: None
Text Editor: SciTE for programming/Leafpad for everything else
PIM: None
PDF: None
Dictionary: QBedic
IM: None
Media: MPlayer
Graphics: GQView
File Manager: ROX, looking for others
Terminal: MRXVT
Other: Scrot

How about adding a section for games?

[Meanie]

Word Processing: Abiword
Spreadsheet: Gnumeric
Browser: Dillo, but looking for others
EMail: Sylpheed
FTP: None
Text Editor: SciTE for programming/Leafpad for everything else
PIM: None
PDF: None
Dictionary: QBedic
IM: None
Media: MPlayer
Graphics: GQView
File Manager: ROX, looking for others
Terminal: MRXVT
Other: Scrot

How about adding a section for games?
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this is great stuff. please feel free to add other sections. maybe an emulator section. a games section would be great too, but maybe a new thread dedicated to games would be a better idea since I feel that there would be a lot of games

[Capn_Fish]

Word Processing: Abiword
Spreadsheet: Gnumeric
Browser: Dillo, but looking for others
EMail: Sylpheed
FTP: None
Text Editor: SciTE for programming/Leafpad for everything else
PIM: None
PDF: None
Dictionary: QBedic
IM: None
Media: MPlayer
Graphics: GQView
File Manager: ROX, looking for others
Terminal: MRXVT
Other: Scrot

How about adding a section for games?
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this is great stuff. please feel free to add other sections. maybe an emulator section. a games section would be great too, but maybe a new thread dedicated to games would be a better idea since I feel that there would be a lot of games
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I'll start a thread for games now.

[adf]

Word Processing: AbiWord! what else?

yep

SpreadSheet: Gnumeric! what else?

check

Browsers: Dillo (since it works best for most things), Firefox (slow but most feature rich),  links, lynx, others?

same. would love to see FF2.0 and Sun Java working with the plugin

Email: Sylpheed! Thunderbird is a bit slow in comparison, what else?

sylpheed-claws (intermittantly trying to set it up to work with fetchmail on my server at home)

FTP: gftp, what else?
check

Text Editor: does anyone use scite? or does everyone prefer leadpad? or even vim? what else?
NANO. (sometimes leafpad or scite.... but nano is just sooo simple.

PIM: KOPI/KAPI?, what else?
fltdj (sorta--don't use much pim)

PDF: xpdf? epdfview? evince? which one is better? what else?

xpdf--works with xournal.  maybe other stuff does too, haven't checked

Dictionaries: stardict or qbedic, or both? what else?

qbedic--meaning to switch to fltkbedic for better response times

IM: Gaim?, Xchat?, licq? what else?

gaim

Media Players: xmms, mplayer

same. with pymp, too. a little weak on the front end, though.  a kinoish app would be nice here

Graphics: GIMP, GQView, GThumb, etc..?

gimp, gqview

File Managers: rox, emelfm? what else?

emel

Terminal:  aterm, rxvt, putty? what else?

multi-rxvt, and gtk-term, too.

Other Tools: xarchiver, gps, kchmviewer, scrot, tuxcards ?

--yes.  but not terribly often-- cups??

Are there any other applications that people love to use on pdaXrom?
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vlc for shoutcast--though appaerently it can be done w/ mplayer

vnc --would love to see NX.

galculator.

--Oh, yeah--- Xournal

[Darth_Sith]

Word Processing: AbiWord

SpreadSheet: Gnumeric

Browsers: Dillo / firefox, liferea

Email: Sylpheed

Text Editor: scite for programming, leafpad for other

PIM: KOPI/KAPI, xournal

PDF: evince (xpdf has many bug)

Dictionaries: zbedic

IM: Gaim

Media Players: xmms, mplayer

Graphics: GThumb, mtpaint

File Managers: rox

Terminal: aterm

Other Tools: xarchiver, gps,  scrot

GAMES!: quake I/II, scummvm, psx4all, snes, pingus

[zi99y]

pim app: gpe-calendar (quicker than ko/pi)
rss aggregator: liferea (indispensible but fails to read some feeds, like slashdot )
irc client: BitchX or XChat (console vs gui)
email: sylpheed (hmc version) or mutt (console vs gui)
file manager: MC or XFe - but if you suspend with it running the HDD light will not go out.
Terminal: MRXVT & Aterm
Games: XPat2 - card games
Text editor: Vim full or Nedit (console vs gui)
Web browser: Dillo or Links (console vs gui)
Comic reader: qcomicbook


misc: GPS, Kchmviewer, Xournal, Notecase, tightvnc

[wowo123]

Programs I use:

Wordprocessing: Abiword (what else?)

Spreadsheet: Gnumeric (what else?)

PIM: KDEPIMPI (kopi/kapi)

Browser: Firefox: slow only until having started, with mplayer-plugin for video streaming (unfortunaltely only microsoft codecs)
Sometimes konqueror, when I have lots of time to load the KDE-environment...

Email: Sylpheed

Audio: xmms (mp3, ogg, wav) and mplayer (if xmmx doesn't work properly)

Video: mplayer without cache in fullscreen

ebooks: FBReader (really great for fb2 and html!) and sometimes OpieReader (additional formats)

PDF: Xpdf (works, but ugly), evince (only for small documents). Sometimes KPDF, when I have lots of time to load the KDE-environment...
so this is one the few items I'm not quite happy with.

Editor: Leafpad and good old joe...

Terminals: mrxvt (very usefull!) and GTKTerm2.

Grafics: gthumb to get pictures from my digicam via USB, Gimp (not so often), KSnapshot for screenshots, when I have...

Personal Data: Gringotts

Dictionaries: StarDict for nearly everything, ZBedic for wikipedia...

Games: Imarbles, gnuchess, gSoko, GWeled...

I think, that's it.

[neo_com_3]

Word Processing: Abiword...
Spreadsheet: Gnumeric...
Browser: Firefox - while I speed up to 624... and Dillo for forums...
EMail:-
FTP: gFtp
Text Editor: Leafpad
PIM: KOPI/KAPI - a bit heavy but covers all my needs...
PDF: xPdf
Dictionary: QBedic
IM: Gaim - Connects to the world...
Media: MPlayer & xMms
Graphics: GThumb & GQView for small pics...
File Manager: ROX - the best!
Terminal: aTerm - cause of its transparency!
Other: Streamtuner, x11vnc, Grisbi, aMule, vncViewer, xArchiver & Liferea...

[daniel3000]

Personal Data: Gringotts
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Interesting. I didn't know about that one.
It is said (on its homepage) that it is able to save also small files.
How is this implemented? I'm still looking for a kind of encrypted container for samll sensitive files. Bestcrypt is what I use now, but I don't like it too much, because containers cannot be created on the zaurus but only in Windows. and because it has no GUI :-)

daniel

[phunkhy]

Word Processing:
1) txt2tags + scite.  Easy wiki like tag notation, lightweight but powerful, many target formats from html to LaTex. With this I can keep my hands on the keyboard.
2) MoinMoin desktop wiki edition + konqueror embedded. For the organized notes, easy to rsync with my notebook MoinMoin wiki because it's file based.
SpreadSheet: Gnumeric! because there's no alternative. Painfully missing the Excel export (fails).
Browsers: Additionally konqueror embedded. It renders my MoinMoin wiki correctly but is much more lightweight than firefox
Email: Sylpheed because it's good enough
FTP: Don't need it
Text Editor: scite is great
PIM: GPE-PIM Suite is nice and lightweight.
PDF: xpdf but wanna try the alternatives
Dictionaries: don't need it.
IM: Gaim does it all.
Media Players: xmms, mplayer - anything they can't play back?
Graphics: GQView is enough for me.
File Managers: thunar as I'm using XFCE.
Terminal:  aterm and XFCE term.
Other Tools:
1) Opie-reader - for reading all my plucker documents. Together with sunrise and its firefox extension it makes web articles available for offline reading on my Z with a few clicks.
2) Gringotts - for all that passwords, CC numbers, etc on the go.
3) Planner - project planning for Linux - I use this on my notebook, too.
4) Sketchbook - for the quick and simple drawing
5) XFCE - because of eye candy
6) soundtracker - for some little music hacking

[wowo123]

Personal Data: Gringotts
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Interesting. I didn't know about that one.
It is said (on its homepage) that it is able to save also small files.
How is this implemented? I'm still looking for a kind of encrypted container for samll sensitive files. Bestcrypt is what I use now, but I don't like it too much, because containers cannot be created on the zaurus but only in Windows. and because it has no GUI :-)

daniel
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I don't know of that feature. What you can do is using a complete file as a password,  but I never tried to save an external file within gringotts. It's rather lightweight. But you can try it out, it's in the unstable feed (and needs libgringotts from there too).

[daniel3000]

[1) Opie-reader - for reading all my plucker documents. Together with sunrise and its firefox extension it makes web articles available for offline reading on my Z with a few clicks.
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Is opie-reader available in a feed?
I'm using justreader but it does not look as nice as opie-reader under Cacko ROM, so it would be good to have opie-reader in pdaX as well.

But I cannot find it in the feeds.


BTW: Thanks Meanie for that thread. It is very interesting and brings up a lot of useful information!


Thanks

daniel