FeaturedApps

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Criteria:

  • Is available in main or universe
  • Is a GUI app
  • Does not replace a default application
  • Does not replace another featured application
  • Is well designed for the task and robust

Personas:

  • A graphic designer (might be amateur)
  • A child
  • ...

Proposed featured applications:

  • cheese (photobooth)
  • gnucash (accounting)
  • gramps (genealogy)
  • XBox Media Center or Moovida (media center)

  • <insert programming tools?>

  • <insert scientific tools?>

  • stellarium (planetarium)
  • dia (diagramming)
  • gtg (Getting Things GNOME, work tracker)
  • gnome-do (fast keyboard based access)
  • deja-dup (backup)
  • MythTV (Media center/PVR)
  • liferea (rss feed reader)
  • monodevelop (software development)

Editors:

  • gimp (bitmap graphics)
  • inkscape (vector graphics)
  • blender (3d graphics)
  • imagination (DVD generator as pitivi does not support it)
  • jokosher (multi-track studio)
  • audacity (audio editor)

Tools:

  • virtualbox? (virtual machine)
  • gaiksaurus (thesaurus)
  • gufw (firewall tool)

Games:

  • frozen-bubble (fun game (too big for CD))
  • glchess (chess)
  • Tux racer (or whatever it keeps getting renamed to)
  • Flight gear (flight simulator)
  • Saurbraten (FPS, or Nexuiz?)
  • Spring (RTS)
  • The Ur-Quan masters (aka Starcon 2 - ex commercial game)
  • Beneath a Steel Sky (Adventure, ex commercial)
  • Flight of the Amazon Queen (Adventure, ex commercial)
  • scorched3d (turn based tank game)
  • freeciv (turn based strategy)
  • TORCS (car racing)
  • Battle for Wesnoth (fantasy RTS)
  • Platform game (supertux?)
  • Pingus (lemmings clone)
  • super tuxcart
  • simutrans (transport simulator)
  • pioneers (settlers of catan clone)
  • fretsonfire (Guitar hero clone)

  • <insert games suitable for children>

Rejected choices:

  • epiphany-webkit (light weight web browser?) DUPE of Firefox
  • gnumeric (light weight spreadsheet) DUPE of OO.o
  • abiword (lightweight and collaborative document editing) DUPE or OO.o
  • xchat-gnome (IRC) DUPE of empathy
  • miro (media player) DUPE of totem
  • pyroom (editor) NOT GUI
  • gwibber (twitter) Already shipping by default in Lucid.
  • PDF Mod (PDF modification) NOT PACKAGED