This might be a little ridiculous, but this is mostly what I use for whatever that's worth.
Word Processing: emacs22 (mostly org-mode), tetex3, auctex, (trying to use OpenOffice more in PocketWorkstation), AbiWord consistenly amazes and disappoints me
handwriting mostly gimp-1.2, occassionally xournal (interface could use more keyboard support, but pdf support is awesome),
SpreadSheet: emac22 (org-mode mostly, occassionally ses or ess modes), rarely gnumeric (only when i need to open excel spreadsheets)
Presentation: OpenOffice Impress in PocketWorkstation (i don't like powerpoint slides at all, but lots of people do)
Calculations: Octave (in emacs), Maxima (in xterm), iMath-mode for emacs, (emacs calc), clisp, lush, python (rarely, but trying more), trying to get scilab and R working, wishing geda, ngspice and xcircuit would work, occassionally ti-emu
Browsers: dillo (mostly), firefox (less often), emacs22 (occasionally), konqueror (rarely)
Email: (trying to use emacs22)
Text Editor: emacs22, vim when in a pinch, (trying to use nano more)
PIM: emacs22 (org-mode mostly, agenda and calendar modes also), "cal" and "date" in torsmo, (KOPI/KAPI are pretty, but way too slow)
PDF:
-Viewing: mostly xpdf, (occassionally evince's dual page layout), rarely kpdf
-Creating: (esp-ghostscript, tetex3, imagemagick 6.30, emacs-muse-mode OpenOffice)
Dictionaries: just started using stardict, been meaning to download wikipedia for years
IM: (trying to use emacs22), occassionally gaim
Media Players: xmms, mplayer
Graphics Editing: gimp-1.2 for most bitmapping, (metapost and ps-tricks, for most vectors), gnuplot4.0 for most plotting, image-magick for everything else, especially screenshooting and batch-processing
Graphics Viewing:
-xzgv for most viewing because it's fast with a decent interface. (I read a lot of books and notes as image sequences in xzgv with bookmarks in emacs),
-sometimes i use "display" from imagemagick but this is a little bizarre,
-tumme-mode in emacs uses imagemagick as its backend, but this is too slow
-occasionally i use gqview (the "edit with gimp" option is cool), but it's slow and difficult to size. This works nice on the desktop for me, but not the palmtop
- qcomicbook seems like it should be so cool, but it's too slow and cumbersome for me
File Managers: emacs22 (dired,eshell,shell modes) (sometimes I use ROX, but I don't like it as much as I could)
Terminal: often emacs22 (eshell and shell modes, or just plain elisp) more often xterm (thanks again meanie), torsmo is a great permanent terminal for top, etc
Wishlist:
- gutenprint and preconfigured CUPS
- scilab
- gnu common lisp
- geda, ngspice, and xcircuit that work for me
- native gcc 2.9.5
- native gcc with fortran and java
- X11R7
- 2.6 kernel without all the bugs
- lilo bootloader
- purely native open office
- faster auto-resized inkscape
- mosix style clustering
- more support for pocketworkstation (i'm trying to boot into X with this)
Miscellaneous Comments
-xkeymouse and ratpoison would be nice to learn
-trying to find a good sampler (like fruityloops)
-trying to find a good multitrack-recorder (still haven't tried khd-record)
- trying to theme xfce4-panel or find something that themes easier, but still runs as fast (probably pypanel?)
- nice to see there's other emacs users here, the program is truly amazing
- my most sincere thanks to all of you other zaurus and *nix users who continuously amaze me with what is possible
