Ubuntu Is Trying To Figure Out The Default Apps For 18.04 LTS

[dungeon]

Since it is LTS they should choose what is supportable for these 5 (currently 6) years

[cj.wijtmans]

• Web Browser: curl
• Email Client: none
• Terminal: konsole
• IDE: none
• File manager: dolphin
• Basic Text Editor: kate
• IRC/Messaging Client: none
• PDF Reader: none
• Office Suite: libreoffice
• Calendar: none
• Video Player: mplayer
• Music Player: mplayer
• Photo Viewer: photoqt
• Screen recording: OBS(doesnt work on wayland)

[darkcoder]

IDE should not be included by default. If they want later to unify some apps and libraries as a sdk, fine by me. But not all users are programmers, not all programmers code in the same language, and not all Java devs use Eclypse to give you an example. That category should be a download by need only.

[eydee]

In these days of Internet required way of living, they should do a small with just the basics. No IDE, no dev tools, no gimp or any drawing app. This way they can keep desktop dependencies to a minimum.

Only a browser, text editor, video player, photo viewer/gallery, and all codecs legally available. And let people download whatever extra they need.

That would defeat the purpose of Ubuntu being a user-friendly, easy to use OS.

[Veerappan]

• Web Browser: Firefox, although I have to use Chromium occasionally to test stuff I'm developing.
• Email Client: Evolution. When configured with Gnome's online accounts, I can tie into our exchange server w/ AD.
• Terminal: Gnome Terminal Server (yeah, I'm boring).
• IDE: Netbeans
• File manager: Gnome Files
• Basic Text Editor: Geany. I'd use Gedit if it didn't choke on 1GB+ text files which I have to open at least weekly.
• IRC/Messaging Client: Hexchat
• PDF Reader: Document Viewer (evince)
• Office Suite: LibreOffice, although my company is trying to move us to Office 365
• Calendar: Evolution
• Video Player: vlc preferred, I'd love for 3.0 to be finished/included for wayland support, but such is life.
• Music Player: Pithos (pandora client)
• Photo Viewer: Shotwell, old Picasa version running on Wine.
• Screen recording: Don't use one, but support for screen recording/casting in Slack/GoToMeeting will eventually be a requirement at work.

[mike44]

[*]Web Browser: Firefox[*]Email Client: Thunderbird[*]Terminal: gnome terminal[*]IDE: to choose from software, i use eclipse but from their site[*]File manager: nautilus[*]Basic Text Editor: gedit[*]IRC/Messaging Client: ???[*]PDF Reader: default from firefox[*]Office Suite: libreoffice[*]Calendar: ???[*]Video Player: VLC[*]Music Player: VLC[*]Photo Viewer: ???[*]Screen recording: SimpleScreenRecorder

Thanks

[DanL]

• Web Browser: Firefox, unless Chromium devs stop copping out on hw video accel
• Email Client: "What's the word?"
• Terminal: gnome
• IDE: none
• File manager: caja or thunar
• Basic Text Editor: pluma
• IRC/Messaging Client: don't care
• PDF Reader: browser
• Office Suite: libreoffice
• Calendar: ???
• Video Player: mpv (with frequent updates)
• Music Player: Clementine
• Photo Viewer: ???
• Screen recording: ???"

[Cerberus]

• Web Browser: Chromium or Firefox
• Email Client: Thunderbird
• Terminal: Gnome
• IDE: Dont care
• File manager: Nautilus patched for better functionality
• Basic Text Editor: Gedit
• IRC/Messaging Client: Hexchat/Pidgin
• PDF Reader: Document Viewer
• Office Suite: LibreOffice
• Calendar: Gnome Calendar or whatever
• Video Player: SMPlayer
• Music Player: Clementine
• Photo Viewer: Gthumb
• Screen recording: SimpleScreenRecorder

[DebianXFCE Jr]

• Web Browser: Firefox, Chrome
• Email Client: Thunderbird
• Terminal: any
• IDE: visual studio code, MonoDevelop, Eric, Geany, Bluefish,
• File manager: caja/nemo
• Basic Text Editor: pluma, xed, geany
• IRC/Messaging Client: hexchat/catch the pidgeon
• PDF Reader: okular
• Office Suite: libre/open/onlyoffice
• Calendar: none
• Video Player: vlc/xplayer/smplayer
• Music Player: clementine
• Photo Viewer: eeee, what?
• Screen recording: kazam/obs
• Image editor: gimp/mypaint/krita
• 3D software: blender
• Additional stuff: pdfmod/pdf-shuffler, grub-customizer, plank, lsb, ppa-purge, htop, qbittorrent, rkhunter
• DE: MATE/Cinnamon/Budgie
• Libraries: libncurses5-dev, libssl-dev

Gnome - a crippled plugin heresy.
If gnome then plugin to make it less hardware hungry.

[r1348]

I think the time has come for Unity 8 on Mir by default.

*ducks and run*