DesktopTeam/Lucid/FeaturedApps

Criteria:

Approach for selecting apps:

decide on the number of applications desired
decide on criteria for selecting applications
get a list of suggested apps
canonical-desktop-team (and regular contributors) will discuss each proposed app if it meets criteria
If there is overflow (more apps that meet criteria than slots designated) the canonical-desktop-team will select apps to drop off
Selected apps will then available for review, comments, feedback

Number:

Personas:

Proposed featured applications:

Programming:

Editors:

Graphics:
- gimp (bitmap graphics)
- mypaint (easy painting with lots of brushes)
- inkscape (vector graphics)
- blender (3d graphics)
Audio:
- jokosher (multi-track studio [simple])
- ardour (multi-track studio [advanced])
- audacity (audio editor)
- easytag (audio files tag editor)
imagination (DVD generator as pitivi does not support it)
hugin (panorama sticher)
scribus (DTP)

Media Centers:

Tools:

Games:

frozen-bubble (arcade game)
glchess (Chess)
pychess (Chess)
flightgear (Flight Gear, flight simulator)
FPS:
- sauerbraten (FPS)
- nexuiz (FPS)
- warsow (fast-moving FPS)
- openarena (quake3-clone FPS)
Strategy:
- spring-mods-kernelpanic (RTS)
- freeciv-client-gtk (turn based strategy)
- glob2 (isometric strategy game)
- wesnoth (Battle for Wesnoth, fantasy turn based strategy)
- simutrans (transport simulator)
- pioneers (settlers of catan clone)
Racing:
- torcs (car racing)
- supertuxkart
- armagetronad (Tron lightcycle game, fully playable without 3D support)
- extremetuxracer (Tux racer)
Adventure:
- uqm (The Ur-Quan masters aka Starcon 2 - ex commercial game)
- beneath-a-steel-sky (Beneath a Steel Sky, Adventure, ex commercial)
- flight-of-the-amazon-queen (Flight of the Amazon Queen, Adventure, ex commercial)
- yofrankie
scorched3d (turn based tank game)
pingus (lemmings clone)
fretsonfire (Guitar hero clone)
chromium-bsu (simple shot-'em-up)
teeworlds (multiplayer 2d platform shooter)
neverball (3D floor-tilting game)
tumiki-fighters (simple shoot-'em-up, no need for 3D support)
<insert games suitable for children>

Comments:

gnucash
- I would suggest "homebank" instead, it is much, much easier to grasp IMHO. It doesn't require a budget-style balance workflow like accountants are used to. --Jeff
  - Agreed -- qense
gftp
- I'd suggest FileZilla instead, it looks better and is more modern. -- qense
Boxee Beta is a media center, and it is packaged, unlike XMBC. -Wiggums
- Boxee is not in the Ubuntu archives, thus is not installable from the Software Centre -- RobertAncell
Parcellite is might break copy/paste in applications like OpenOffice. Installing it is very dangerous for non-experimented users as they are very unlikely to understand why things are broken. The idea of a "clipboard manager" is, IMHO, too complex. It should be invisible. I strongly recommand to *not* feature it. -- LionelDricot
3D requirements... -- Arand
- chromium-bsu seems to run extremely sluggish when 3D acceleration is not available (simple noveau vs nvidia test), if we want a simple 2D game this might not be the best choice
- fretsonfire is virtually unplayable without 3D support
- stellarium is virtually unusable without 3D support
- moovida is virtually unusable without 3D support

Rejected choices:

Current choices: