Software Portal : Post your suggestions here

[ed@Mint]

Hi everybody.

I am creating this topic to ask you all about what applications you think are missing on the Software Portal (Elyssa section, of course).
If you have any request, please let me know in this topic.
I'll also ask you to emphasize on the daily use applications, like if you were coming from windows, what is the application you'd absolutely need and that didn't make it yet ?

With the final release date for Elyssa which is now very very close, we would like the portal to be as much complete as possible.

Thank you all in advance,
Ed

If you suggest an application that is not currently in the repos, please post a link to the developpers website as well, that will save some time, thanks

[ed@Mint]

Suggestions :

Softwares :

• Areca backup
• Celtx (media pre-production, http://www.celtx.com/)
• Cinepaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)
• Gourmet (grecipe, http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/)
• Sopcast (P2P internet TV, http://www.sopcast.com/)
• SummVM
• Wicd (wireless network manager, http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
• Graphics:
  
  • Art of illusion (3D, http://www.artofillusion.org/)
  • Pencil - a 2D animation creator (http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/)
  • Synfig - a 2D vector graphics and timeline-based animation program (http://www.synfig.org/Main_Page)
• Games:
  
  • Crossfire
  • Gnome hearts
  • Grid wars
  • Planeshift (http://www.planeshift.it/)
  • Urban terror
• Software packs: (those are only ideas of packs to make, please comment )
  
  • Audio studio
  • Graphic artist
  • Programming
  • Games

Improvements :

• Display package version
• Hide email address

[Jernau]

Art of Illusion
Pencil
ScummVM

Also, Wine is one of the first things that I install on a new Linux installation, and I found it difficult to locate in the Elyssa Software Portal. Am I correct in thinking that the 'Windows Compatibility Layer' in 'Games->Emulators' page 3 is actually Wine? If so, then I'd recommend renaming the entry to 'Wine: Windows Compatibility Layer' so that searching for 'Wine' in the Software Portal returns the correct result. It's fine in 'Games->Emulators', but I'd also suggest listing it under 'Accessories->Emulators', so that people who want to use it to run Office or other non-game related applications can find it more easily. Wine Doors would also be nice to have, especially as it's in the Daryna Software Portal.

Keep up the great work on the Software Portal ed - your efforts are truly appreciated and will make a big difference to the success of Elyssa!

[ed@Mint]

Thank you for your suggestions, Jernau

I found it difficult to locate in the Elyssa Software Portal ... I'd recommend renaming the entry to 'Wine: Windows Compatibility Layer'

Point taken.

Keep up the great work on the Software Portal ed

I sure will do.

@Everybody : Post your suggestions !

[CavalierBob]

Cinepaint
Areca Backup
Gourmet Recipe Manager

Cinepaint is the missing app I need to move my digital photography workflow from XP. Unlike Gimp, Cinepaint can work with 16-bit TIFF files.

Cinepaint was dropped by Debian sid (and thus Ubuntu Hardy) as their version was compiled in GTK1 and/or was unmaintained. The Sidux Debian derivative has debs compiled in GTK2 which can be found here . I have installed these debs on Elyssa Beta 032 (you need 3 of the 4 debs - the libcinepaint-dev is not needed) with Gdebi and the app seems to be working perfectly.

Areca Backup is a home user backup solution written in Java. Other backup solutions such as pybackback and hubackup do not appear to give users the ability to schedule backups or to automatically delete older backups (to manage space usage). While Areca does require users to use crontab at the command line to schedule backups, even I was able to figure out how to make it work. And it has a wizard to help users generate the scripts needed. And unlike the other 2 solutions noted above, Areca is (and has been) actively developed. It is released under the GPL (GPL2).

There is a deb at the Areca download page on Sourceforge. I grabbed it and installed on Elyssa Beta 032 and it seems to work just fine. It is also one of the better looking Java apps on Gnome I have run across.

Gourmet (aka grecipe-manager) is not an app I miss from Windows, just an app I miss from other distros. It is not in the repos, but there is a deb available at their download page on Sourceforge. I installed it on Elyssa Beta 032 and it too works just fine.

Thanks Ed for all your work on the Software Portal, it is much appreciated!

Bob

[Fred]

CavalierBob,

I would suggest you take a look at my Clean-Up & Back-Up / Restore script. It does everything you talked about for backing up and more. It just doesn't have a real fancy GUI on it yet. It is posted in the how-to section of the forum

It uses rsync so it only transfers the changes since the last back-up.

I couldn't find anything that I liked so I decided to write my own. I didn't really need a fancy GUI so it doesn't have one. I might get around to putting a nicer GUI on it if enough people want it.

Fred

[CavalierBob]

I would suggest you take a look at my Clean-Up & Back-Up / Restore script. It does everything you talked about for backing up and more. It just doesn't have a real fancy GUI on it yet. It is posted in the how-to section of the forum

Thanks for the tip on the script Fred. Going to take a look at it right now.

Cheers!

Bob

[badmotor]

Frostwire... I can't find it in the repos?

[ed@Mint]

Suugestions added.
Who's turn next ?

[kanishka]

What, no Grid Wars in the Portal? AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH

[Jernau]

Have you thought about adding a 'BitTorrent Client' section to the 'Internet' part of the Elyssa Software Portal?

It would be great to have a .mint for my favourite client: Deluge.

[ed@Mint]

Have you thought about adding a 'BitTorrent Client' section to the 'Internet' part of the Elyssa Software Portal?

I did, this section is actually part of the 100+ apps that are to be added like i said in the first post.
However, they did not make it to the portal yet.
(I still have to rely on Clem to make the actual insert in the database and he's a bit busy these days as you can imagine).

[Jernau]

I did, this section is actually part of the 100+ apps that are to be added like i said in the first post.
However, they did not make it to the portal yet.
(I still have to rely on Clem to make the actual insert in the database and he's a bit busy these days as you can imagine).

It's great to hear that you've done this already - I'm looking forward to seeing what apps you've added.

[belovedmonster]

The only app I can think of that I would ever use that is missing is Celtx, but last time I checked that wasn't even in the Ubuntu repos. Dunno why it's not.

[Jernau]

The only app I can think of that I would ever use that is missing is Celtx, but last time I checked that wasn't even in the Ubuntu repos. Dunno why it's not.

Another Celtx user here... I read somewhere that it wasn't going to be put into the Debian repositories until it has come out of beta. Hopefully that will happen soon - because I think it's a great piece of software!

[belovedmonster]

Well it hit version 1.0 this week so there's no excuse for it not to be in the repos in the future.

[Jernau]

Well it hit version 1.0 this week so there's no excuse for it not to be in the repos in the future.

I didn't realize that 1.0 was out - thanks for the heads-up!

[belovedmonster]

You should subscribe to my blog then you would know these things Alas I can't tell you the address as this thread has already gone off topic far too much.

[ed@Mint]

Big update on the software portal !
Enjoy

The last screenshots are coming soon.
The idea of "software packs" initially proposed for a 'Mint studio' has been accepted, i'll start building some soon.
Stay tuned !

Keep the suggestions coming

[rivenought]

OK, I am passing along a request from my mother. She would like a Hearts card game (something similar to GNOME Hearts, probably) added to the Software Portal. Boring suggestion in comparison, but it is the only thing she has ever complained about in Mint 4. Yes, she has the GNOME Games pack and plays those card games, but she really likes hearts. We all know how mothers can be. Now, we tried downloading via Synaptic, but that game pretends to load, then vanishes. Not sure what the glitch is. Anyway, that is one suggestion from a very happy little old lady.