Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:50:36PM +0200: > Another gnome package proposal. It consists of useful utilities which > are only run explicitly and for which we have no equivalents (except for > screenshot as a panel plugin)
[snip (see below) ] > > I know there were plans of adding search to thunar and also a disk usage > view but those have not materialized afaik. Same for floppy formatter. > > Since many users would find these helpful but would not know where to > find them if not installed I propose including them. > > Pros, cons? Let's see what alternatives are there: > The utils are: > - baobab, a disk usage analyser I think there was another, non-gnome utility, called gdmap, but its output is much harder to analyze and less useful. I also find it harder to operate. There are command-line tools like df and du, but they are only suitable for advanced users. Thunar can display a summary of a directory's disk usage when you click "properties", but there is no overview. > - gfloppy, a tool for formatting floppy disks Two comamndline tools, mformat (from mtools) and mkfs.vfat, could possibly be added as a custom action to thunar or with a simple gui could be written (but that's additional work, and the resulting application wouldn't be tested). > - gnome-dictionary, a program which can look up the definition of words > over the internet (including a panel applet to do the same) A commandline "dict" which does basically the same thing. There is also xfce4-dict-plugin. > - gnome-search-tool, with which one can find files by name or content There is "catfish", written by #xubuntu regular, and also tracker-search-tool (is it the same as gnome-search tool?). I won't even mention beagle ;) > - gnome-system-log, a log viewing application For now we just tell users to use a text editor. A dedicated application is nice because a) it shows in the menu b) it lists the available log files. A similar effect could be achieved by making links to the log files in the menu, but the log viewer also has the nice feature of comfotable date choosing. > - gnome-screenshot, a tool to take desktop screenshots and save them > into a file There is ImageMagick's "import" and a separate "scrot", which could be bound to the "print screen" key by default. There is the aforemntioned desktop plugin. Gimp can take screenshots. -- Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski <http://sheep.art.pl> Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. -– David Gelernter -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
