recommend apps

refund · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: recommend apps

ok so everything's installed and ready, all I need now are apps,

what are you recommendations for a good:

music player (I'm not a huge fan of amarok)
picture editor
something-to-run-winx-games-on (if it's possible)

as well as all the other good stuff I haven't thought of, I'll probably add more later as I think of them

luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

music and video player : mplayer

there is a gui in it, but I really recommend you use the console interface.

picture editing : I guess I should say gimp here, but I really don't use anything like this.

running windows games : wine (or if you can afford it, cedega)

refund · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:03 am Post subject:

I've decided to use xmms because it looks similar to winamp, (I'm not fussy)
I tried mplayer and it crashed when I tried to change skins,... ghey, but still, is it worth replacing kaffeine with (for movies, not music)

next, I need an irc client

Bill Cosby · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:11 am Post subject:

songpenguin · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 7:36 am Post subject:

music: xmms
video: mplayer but xine for DVD's

The others are off topic (slap) IMHO this should have been in Gentoo Chat but I'm not a moderator so I can't do anything about it :-/.
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/carlito · Guru Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 451 Location: Belgium

music = beep-media-player
movies = mplayer without a doubt!

irc = x-chat

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jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

But the console interface is wonderful

As far as I'm concerned, they could get rid of the gui.

jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

luisfelipe · Guru Joined: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 377

The mplayer CLI is quite simple in my opinion, and the man page is one of the most complete.
There are some things that really can't be done with the GUI (or at least couldn't), such as
good positioning of subtitles.

think4urs11 · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

Recommended_Packages
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refund · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:30 pm Post subject:

that wiki page is AWESOME

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

music player = moc (music on conslole ) or xmms
pictureviewer = gview
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