FeaturedApps
Featured Applications
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
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
Submissions for Maverick
Name |
Description |
Comments |
PDFMod |
PDF Editor |
Well maintained upstream, wanted it featured last time but it wasn't packaged. |
Armagetron Advanced |
Tron-like lightcycle game |
Quick and easy access to online multiplayer racing |
Calibre |
e-book manager |
Manages and converts many ebook formats |
Mypaint |
Painting & drawing |
Touch oriented interface, tries to emulate a realistic painting experience |
Phatch |
photo batch editor |
user-friendly GUI for batch operations on images, e.g. resize, add shadow, add watermark, rounded corners, etc. |
Gramps |
genealogy |
very complete program for those interested in genealogy |
tuxpaint |
painting for children |
this program allows young children to experiment with their creativity |
Check the list from Lucid before recommending something, remember we don't want duplicate functionality.
Accepted for Maverick
Name |
Description |
Comments |
Rejected for Maverick
Name |
Description |
Comments |
smuxi |
IRC Client |
IRC too geeky for normal users. |
Current Applications in Maverick
- cheese
- homebank
- stellarium
- gnome-do
- deja-dup
- gimp
- inkscape
- blender
- audacity
- gufw
- frozen-bubble
- fretsonfire
- pingus
- liferea
- arista
- gtg
- freeciv
- supertuxcart
- zoho-word
- zoho-presentation
- zoho-spreadsheet
DesktopTeam/Maverick/FeaturedApps (last edited 2010-09-20 14:32:26 by ip-83-134-163-137)