From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 3:20:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B9E37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7564643E5E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g75AH7eb082676; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:17:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g75AH7K8082675; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:17:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:17:07 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Christophe Juniet Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. Message-ID: <20020805121707.B82287@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020804191139.GA67318@daemon.entreview.com>; from cjuniet@entreview.com on Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 09:11:39PM +0200 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 09:11:39PM +0200, Christophe Juniet wrote: > Murray Stokely wrote: > > [PR docs/41106] > > Here is the little > piece of work I've done so far. If it's what you expected, I'll send a > PR when it's good enough. Very nice work. In reading your pages I thought about many things (I don't know if it's really important, but maybe some could be improvments): -Check the names of packages, from a 4.6-STABLE: pkg_add -rv linux-netscape6 pkg_add -rv AbiWord fail. Browser section: -Maybe you could tell that Opera is a commercial app :) and give the link to their website. -What about adding a little sentence giving name of light browsers like dillo, w3m and links...? Productivity section: -OpenOffice should replace StarOffice6, packages are available in many languages etc... -Maybe Koffice has his place in the section, as some apps like gnumeric, gnucash... -Maybe something about graphics apps like The Gimp for bitmaps and sketch, sodipodi and xfig for vectors could be interesting too Viewers, players section: -Tell what acroread version pkg_add installs -xpdf is a light and efficient pdf viewer too -You could add a link to video players section of multimedia chapter and to mp3 section in the same chapter. -What about adding some images viewers like gqview, xzgv etc...? Perhaps one thing is missing: the mail applications: sylpheed, evolution etc... Nowadays people can't think about a computer without thinking about sending mails :) I'm sure you already thought about most of my remarks. In fact I have only one word to say: "Continue!" :)) Good luck, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message