Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 02:32:16 +0200 From: Piero <piero@poprostu.pl> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20030902023216.75e93bbf.piero@poprostu.pl> In-Reply-To: <1062459309.18925.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20030901152526.D89776@freebsdmall.com> <1062459309.18925.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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W li=B6cie otrzymanym Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:35:10 -0400 od Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> : > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a > > FreeBSD vs Linux segment. We've already got some ideas from the KDE > > guys about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..). Do you > > have any other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against > > Linux? The producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on > > video. >=20 > AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release. Gucharmap is also a nice > bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application).=20 > Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer.=20 > Whatever you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work > really well with FreeBSD [yet]). I hear the GKrellM stuff is good. >=20 > The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does > net/netspeed_applet. Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice > on FreeBSD. Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks > very nice. I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect > management tool with a gantt interface. Totem plays video streams and > DVDs nicely. Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo. I would > also show off news/pan2 if you get a chance. It's been praised as one > of the best looking and feeling GUIs out there. Also, > deskutils/gdeskcal is nothing but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't > ported yet :-(). Gaim is a nice functional app on FreeBSD, and also > adds a little notification area icon. If you can, showing off > gnomemeeting would be cool, too. =20 >=20 > Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more > specific ideas. Let me know if you need help configuring, building, > or setting up any of the GNOME stuff. I would add misc/stickynotes_applet and graphics/gthumb2, if it is for eye candy mostly.=20 --=20 Piero piero@poprostu.pl
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