[Glastonbury] General purpose/must have packages

[Alistair Parsons]

heres my 2p worth


Greg Browne wrote:

>Office - I'm downloading OO2 to see how it goes, but do find the
>instructions to make a .deb package a bit daunting. This should help
>with those old Access files.
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I have been using the beta for quite a while, it looks very nice, seems 
to work nicely with GTK, doesnt look likes a windows 3.1 app anymore, 
opens my quite complex formated excel files flawlessly, the database 
side looks very promising but needs more work, isnt as simple as knoda, 
although i havent used that for a while,

Only problem with openoffice for drawing/dtp was the inability to import 
SVG files, something which most other drawing/dtp apps could do
......but no longer :).....

We have started providing Open Office on new PCs here at microbitz, :-)

>Graphics - Tried digicam, but not with a camera as yet. It doesn't
>seem to have a simple 'open file' function though.
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crazy notion but has anyone used the corel photpaint recently, when i 
tried the linux version a while back i rember it being very easy to use. 
Also keep an eye on krita, the koffice painting app.


>Finance - gnucash looks good, thanks, but did have installation
>problems, hope it will continue to run smoothly.
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apparently this is the easiest linux finance app in terms of importing 
data and documnentation, although the KMyMoney guys are very helpfull


>Sound - don't appear to have KINO installed. JuK and Kmix seem to be
>the standard packages, but I've not tried them.
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Kino is a very simple to use video editor, although Mainactor is also 
worth trying
Im curently testing out Beep media Player, a GTK2 app very similar to xmms

Mozilla firefox has a vast number of plugins, such as IRC, html editing, 
bookmark syncing with an ftp site, has a lot more functionality than the 
normal mozilla in my opinion, also the windows version is very usefull 
for people who suffer from spyware or slow connection speeds.

For calender and pim stuff, i find the plugins to GKrellm to be 
indispensible, if difficult to find on the net,

Alistair