Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD?

[Piero]

W liście otrzymanym Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:35:10 -0400 od Joe Marcus Clarke
<marcus at marcuscom.com> :

> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a
> > FreeBSD vs Linux segment.  We've already got some ideas from the KDE
> > guys about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..).  Do you
> > have any other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against
> > Linux?  The producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on
> > video.
> 
> AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release.  Gucharmap is also a nice
> bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application). 
> Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer. 
> Whatever you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work
> really well with FreeBSD [yet]).  I hear the GKrellM stuff is good.
> 
> The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does
> net/netspeed_applet.  Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice
> on FreeBSD.  Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks
> very nice.  I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect
> management tool with a gantt interface.  Totem plays video streams and
> DVDs nicely. Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo.  I would
> also show off news/pan2 if you get a chance.  It's been praised as one
> of the best looking and feeling GUIs out there.  Also,
> deskutils/gdeskcal is nothing but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't
> ported yet :-().  Gaim is a nice functional app on FreeBSD, and also
> adds a little notification area icon.  If you can, showing off
> gnomemeeting would be cool, too.  
> 
> Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more
> specific ideas.  Let me know if you need help configuring, building,
> or setting up any of the GNOME stuff.

I would add misc/stickynotes_applet and graphics/gthumb2, if it is for
eye candy mostly. 

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 Piero
 piero at poprostu.pl