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This book is a work in progress. The completed chapters have links.
Provisional outline:
Audio
Browsing
Watching videos
- Totem
- Kaffeine
- VLC (Note to self: not installed by default)
- Use ideas from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/media_players
- Thunderbird (Note to self: not installed by default)
- Evolution
- KMail
Photos
- Digikam (Photo Management Tool for KDE)
- F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)
Phones
- Ekiga
- Twinkle (to be used from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/twinkle_my_favorite_sip_program) (Note to self: not installed by default)
Instant messanging
- Kopete (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/kopete_kde_instant_messenger)
- Pidgin (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/pidgin)
Text editors
- Kate
- Gedit (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gedit_powerful_underrated_text_editor_everybody)
Word processing
- OpenOffice Word Processing
- Abiword (Note to self: not installed by default)
- KWord (Note to self: not installed by default)
Spreadsheets
- OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet
- Gnumeric
- KSpread (Note to self: not installed by default)
Diagrams and presentations
- OpenOffice Impress
- KPresenter (Note to self: not installed by default)
- Dia OR something else
Graphics
- Gimp
- Krita (Note to self: not installed by default)
- Inkscape (Note to self: not installed by default)
Desktop publishing
- Scribus (Note to self: not installed by default)
Web publishing
- Bluefish (Note to self: not installed by default)
- Quanta Plus (Note to self: not installed by default)
Database
- OpenOffice Database
- Kexi (Note to self: not installed by default)
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