Fave Apps or Apps I add after installing VSIDO

[statmonkey]

I always add:
roxterm
Version: 2.7.2-1
Installed-Size: 62
Maintainer: Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk>
Architecture: all
Depends: roxterm-gtk3 (>= 2.7.2-1)
Benefits: many but you can set the term to warn on command finish or keep open on finish, great for debugging scripts, etc.  It's just a term emulator but it's features bring some things to the table not available elsewhere.

Also clipit
       bashburn
       keepassx
       numlockx
which I am sure everyone is familiar with. Not really essential but would save me a few apt-gets

[VastOne]

^ Not Fair!

You bypassed Grsync!

You call this a democracy?   

[VastOne]

All right, all those pass the muster along with a request for NTP from PackRat

Edit - bashburn really needed?  It adds a hefty amount (compared to the rest) ... just asking

[statmonkey]

^ Not Fair!

You bypassed Grsync!

You call this a democracy?   

[edit]ntp is a very good addition

Dang gnab it~ I really should read before posting.  I like bashburn but you are right.  It's an easy add and I do have some things that I plop in myself like bashburn/gnucash/etc for work related stuff.  I rarely burn discs and agree its probably a user choice rather than good to have in there.  The others I think add some value.[/edit]
No it's an autocracy, I really don't have a vote right?  Only am allowed to add input 

I am sure it's great but I don't use gui for rsync evah (only use rsync in scripts with zenity that I write if any interface is needed otherwise command line) and for that matter tend to use rdiff-backup almost as much as rsync anyway.  Which btw rdiff-backup might need to be on this list, forgot about it.

I am sure it is a fine upstanding program and have all the faith in the world it will be an excellent addition.  I am actually still upset you swapped out Geany for that Tea-party or whatever it is editor

Oh forgot to add

upstart
unity

(chortles at own joke)

[VastOne]

  I am choking on those suggestions!

Geany is good but overblown IMO... it is part of the welcome script...  I think I may add the bulk of these to that instead, it probably makes more sense to do that

[statmonkey]

BTW I looped that video of Steve and the q and a period.  The unintentional comedy is awesome and a couple of friends of mine and I have spent most of the afternoon doing riffs off of it like:

Why are you guys so concerned about the ozone hole?  If you don't agree with it just move to another planet and see what happens.

etc.  Thanks again for posting it.

[hakerdefo]

VSIDO include many good terminal applications that are not visible in the menu. So many users might not be aware of their existence. How about a list of included terminal apps with the version of VSIDO here on the website or better still somewhere in the user directory of VSIDO install or best how about a terminal menu for terminal apps?
Cheers.

[PackRat]

I'll add my vote to roxterm - an excellent under the radar app. I think it's what Parted Magic and Puppy distros use. Good drop-in replacement for both urxvt and xfce4-terminal.

ntpdate is a good companion app for ntp.

I noticed you now have tea installed by default; I recommend you do a comparison of tea with scite - scite is another under the radar app; text editor for power users/programers. I think it has some python dependencies - but most are installed by default. Doesn't tea have some QT dependencies? It may be a trade off as far as file size is concerned, but in the long run, I think python has more value for VSIDO. Scite can be a bit tricky tom set up, but it's rather powerful.

[Digit]

VSIDO include many good terminal applications that are not visible in the menu. So many users might not be aware of their existence. How about a list of included terminal apps with the version of VSIDO here on the website or better still somewhere in the user directory of VSIDO install or best how about a terminal menu for terminal apps?
Cheers.

menu (+ terminal menu (maybe?)) for terminal apps sounds great!  could be a great way to help uncover a lot of the gems that vsido has in it... one command to reveal them all.  like... i still think all the smxi etc stuff is rather tucked away in a corner buried deep...  most peeps just wont know.

[edit]er, well, i [/i]presume[/i] they're still tucked&buried... i havnt really given much of a thorough look at recent ootb vsido.[/edit]
[edit2]i suppose peeps could just type "alias" to see a lot of the goodies too... but who ever does that?[/edit]

[VastOne]

The What is VSIDO and Why Should I Care (WIVAWIC) thread does keep a current list of installed applications

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alsa-base
alsa-utils
aptosid-archive-keyring
arandr
arj
audacity
b43-fwcutter
bash-completion
bleachbit
bum
bzip2
ceni
cmake
compton
conky-all
console-data
console-tools
curl
d-feet
deb-multimedia-keyring
debfoster
dialog
disk-manager
dmz-cursor-theme
dpkg-repack
filezilla
firmware-b43-installer
firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-ipw2x00
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-linux
firmware-linux-nonfree
firmware-ralink
firmware-realtek
fluxbox
fonts-liberation
gamin
gawk
gdebi
gdebi
genisoimage
gksu
gmusicbrowser
gparted
grub2
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
gstreamer1.0-x
hardinfo
hddtemp
htop
hwdata
iceweasel
lame
libconsole
libdbus-1-3
libflashplayer.so
libgstreamer-interfaces-perl
libgstreamer-perl
libiw30
libnl1
libpcsclite1
lightdm
live-boot
live-boot-doc
live-boot-initramfs-tools
live-config
live-config-doc
live-config-sysvinit
live-tools
lm-sensors
localepurge
lshw
lvm2
lxappearance
lxpanel
lynx
lzop
mawk
medit
memtest86+
menu
mesa-utils
mirage
mobile-broadband-provider-info
mpg123
mpg321
mplayer
ncdu
nitrogen
ntfs-3g
paman
paprefs
pavucontrol
pavumeter
pithos
pkg-mozilla-archive-keyring
plait
pulseaudio
python-setuptools
rzip
scrot
spacefm
squashfs-tools
synaptic
syslinux
tea
udevil
unace
unalz
unrar
unzip
vorbis-tools
vrms
w64codecs (or w32codecs)
wicd
wireless-tools
wmctrl
wpasupplicant
x11-apps
xarchiver
xchat
xdotool
xfburn
xfce4-appfinder
xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-screenshooter
xfce4-settings
xfce4-taskmanager
xfce4-terminal
xterm
xz-utils
yad
youtube-dl
zip
zoo                                 

smxi is a tough one to menu since it should not be run within X (tty1)... but the WIVAWIC page also points out that smxi is installed as a stub and can be run right away

I will setup a terminal menu item on the next build.  It will have xfce4-terminal, xterm, roxterm and whatever else you all tell me is there or should be on it

For the record, I like xfce4-terminal... It carries none of the baggage of the xfce4 core dependencies and just works.  Having said that, I will dive into roxterm and get aquainted

[statmonkey]

Great list v-ger thanks for that.

FYI

stat@kurtvsido:~$ deps scite

Package: scite
Version: 3.3.5-1
Installed-Size: 4482
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: editor
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31., libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1)
Description-en: Lightweight GTK-based Programming Editor
GTK-based Programming with syntax highlighting support for
many languages. Also supports folding sections, exporting
highlighted text into colored HTML and RTF.
Description-md5: bbb08d61b28f0bf10f18da13af5ff2ca
Homepage: http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Tag: devel::editor, implemented-in::c++, interface::x11, role::program,
scope::application, uitoolkit::gtk, use::editing,
works-with-format::html, works-with::software:source, works-with::text,
x11::application
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/scite/scite_3.3.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1302108
MD5sum: 57bbcb9a31629532db705e7730c4e6c0
SHA1: 3c4d873a03404f10f9003fa05e7b1d1cf261a0d0
SHA256: 2d9472003913d08c470baba6999cb7008295d34faadc5d52c1c5fb3078375ed3

stat@kurtvsido:~$ deps tea

Package: tea
Version: 37.0.0-1
Installed-Size: 1253
Maintainer: Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libaspell15 (>= 0.60.7~20110707), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libhunspell-1.3-0, libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), tea-data (= 37.0.0-1)
Recommends: bzip2, antiword, aspell | hunspell
Description-en: graphical text editor with syntax highlighting
TEA provides you with hundreds of functions. Want some tea?
.
TEA features:
  * Qt-based GUI with a tabbed layout engine;
  * hotkey customization;
  * spell checking (using aspell or hunspell);
  * support for multiple encodings;
  * syntax highlighting;
  * support for code snippets and templates;
  * string-handling functions such as sorting, reversing, de-formatting,
    trimming, filtering, conversions etc.;
  * editing support for Wikipedia, DocBook, LaTeX, and Lout;
  * reading support for text-based word processor formats (ABW, DOCX, FB2,
    KWD, ODT, RTF, SLA, SWX);
  * bookmarks;
  * miscellaneous XML/XHTML/HTML tools;
  * "open at cursor" function from HTML href or img tags;
  * preview in external browsers;
  * drag'n'drop support (with text files and pictures);
  * built-in image viewer (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, WBMP).
Description-md5: 774c91f6fa2794a22f9de54396b76d42
Homepage: http://semiletov.org/tea/
Tag: implemented-in::c++, interface::x11, role::program, uitoolkit::qt,
use::checking, use::editing, use::viewing, works-with::image,
works-with::text, x11::application
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tea/tea_37.0.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 463704
MD5sum: ee697f788f96e24becd1adb1239a95d3
SHA1: b3f980f77eb4f3e1fa297991c413f3dd35a8c229
SHA256: 406e4383f0495d3414583aef5452cbf61131b5567fb1c85e40fa9575fce6a3e0

stat@kurtvsido:~$ deps geany

Package: geany
Version: 1.23.1+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 2625
Maintainer: Geany Packaging Team <pkg-geany-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: geany-abi-69, geany-api-216
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), geany-common (= 1.23.1+dfsg-1)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Suggests: libvte9, doc-base
Breaks: geany-plugins-common (<< 0.21)
Description-en: fast and lightweight IDE
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment.
It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a
few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit
and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.
.
The basic features of Geany are:
  - syntax highlighting
  - code completion
  - auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
  - call tips
  - folding
  - many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
  - symbol lists
  - embedded terminal emulation
Description-md5: aa1d12968850dd51e074624cc3783871
Homepage: http://www.geany.org
Tag: devel::editor, devel::ide, implemented-in::c, interface::x11,
role::program, uitoolkit::gtk, use::editing,
works-with::software:source, works-with::text, works-with::unicode,
x11::application
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/geany/geany_1.23.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1204586
MD5sum: 364e0f468cb3a497f847612706044cba
SHA1: 8d3088d9e389c406cc784414bb33058129dfde62
SHA256: 7b0e26f84eecd0ba450d2933100e529805f48b1191db682efa4096b98ef6d9af

To my eye the differences seem negligible.  I am not familiar with scite but it does look quite a bit heavier. Not sure if that is balanced out with functionality.  Geany may be bombastic or whatever term v-ger used but the flexibility it has (plugins, scripts, easy to set up templates, code check, build and run in the interface) make it just something I lub.  Having said all that I am fine with only medit on the install and the rest in welcome or not at all.

[edit]er, well, i [/i]presume[/i] they're still tucked&buried... i havnt really given much of a thorough look at recent ootb vsido.[/edit]
[edit2]i suppose peeps could just type "alias" to see a lot of the goodies too... but who ever does that?[/edit]

Ummm I do all the time   I am not sure how, short of a manual you can instruct people about smxi.  It is just something you know or you don't.

[VastOne]

^ Thanks for the comparison... Geany does look like the winner

As far as smxi, there is a How To here that I put together quite a while ago... From the amount of feedback I have received on it both here and on #!, it seems to have helped

[mrneilypops]

Here are a few of my FAV CLI apps;

ranger;
http://ranger.nongnu.org/

dstat;
http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/dstat/

termsaver v0.2;
http://termsaver.brunobraga.net/
http://blog.termsaver.brunobraga.net/

cli-radio;
http://arpinux.deviantart.com/art/cli-radio-296656962

Good luck for 2014 VSIDO 

[statmonkey]

Hey mrneilypops for the save.  I needed some toys to brighten my day.  That dstat looks like wholesome geeky fun!  Thanks for the rec.

[edit] I was working on something else and just thought of this.  Is parted in the standard install.  It's pretty handy.  I was actually thinking of writing a how to on it.[/edit]

[hakerdefo]

This is my idea of base gui applications that can get any user started comfortably without burdening him or the system down,

Internet:
wicd, iceweasel, clawsmail, transmission
Audio-Video:
smplayer, gmusicbrowser, radio tray
Graphics-Image:
nitrogen, mirage, xfce4-screenshooter
Programming-Document:
mousepad, geany, evince, abiword, gnumeric
File-System:
spacefm, gnome-disk-utility, gparted
Utilities:
arandr, roxterm, clipit, bleachbit, lxtask, conky, volume icon, tint2, P7zip, xfburn, synaptic package manager

Cheers.