Webcatalog vs nativefier pdf#

Webcatalog vs nativefier pdf#

On the PDF front, Evince works quite well. Then again, looking at KDE, Calligra is also a badly neglected product, and LibreOffice seems to be the one serious contender in this area. You do not get a word processor, a spreadsheet program, or a slides applications of any kind. Instead, Gnome comes with a selection of individual programs that offer some functionality, but it’s a far cry from any serious productivity software. I am unable to find a single a-la LibreOffice suite that is wholly Gnome.

In this regard, both desktop environments seem to be fairly equally disadvantaged. And Rhythmbox has its foibles, but then Amarok hasn’t really been updated in a long time, either. That said, Videos works better than Dragon, especially with remote shares. On the other, there are fewer moving parts to go wrong, so when executed well, the minimalistic interface serves its purpose, although this often comes at the expense of actual functionality. On one hand, this simplicity makes products feel rather bland and simplistic. It can play video files in multiple languages and use subtitles, but there’s none of the fancy, colorful functionality that you get in KDE apps. Videos seems to work relatively well, although it’s quite rudimentary. It would also segfault trying to play music from smartphones, something that’s been around for at least two or three years. Once upon a time, it did its job quite well, but all I can recall from the last few attempts is that whenever I’d double-click a file, it’d launch the player interface (with a long delay), list all the files it could found in the music folder, and then just stop there, without actually playing the selected file.

There are several candidates here, but the most obvious and recognizable options are Rhythmbox for music and Videos for … music and videos. Rhythmbox has been around for a while, but over the years, this program seems to have lost its direction. I also understand this is a tough one, given the popularity of Firefox and Chrome, but still. It would be nice to see more work here, because while there’s some chance people won’t necessarily be using other applications in the stack, there’s a 100% chance they will be using a browser of some sort. Perhaps it’s a tech demonstrator, designed to keep the creative energy flowing, but I can’t really consider Epiphany a serious product. No fancy extensions as far as I could discern. You do get the basics, but little else beyond that. But the phrase ‘all right’ stops the moment you go searching for some extra flexibility or functionality. It’s almost like a combo of Edge and Firefox with the former’s looks and the latter’s engine. It works all right – seems to be based on Firefox (comes with Firefox sync), with a much more basic, stripped down interface. This is even more evident with Gnome, whereby Epiphany isn’t even mentioned. KDE folks are somewhat reluctant in promoting Falkon, and most Plasma distros ship with Firefox. The name of the game is Epiphany, and I’m not really sure when was the last time I encountered this thing. Without checking a wiki page, can you name the default Gnome browser? The thing is, it exists, and the other thing is, you probably cannot. And today’s article, together with the KDE piece, should be an interesting examination of why that is. But my app stack was never either this or that. I started with KDE, used Gnome (mostly through Ubuntu) for a long while, sidelined KDE3 and largely ignored Gnome 3, sailed happily with Unity, and been having a lot of fun with Plasma recently. If I think about my Linux usage over the years, I can’t really say I’ve ever had a pure experience over the years. The next logical step is to examine the Gnome desktop environment and its bundle from the same angle. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment, and examined their suitability, maturity and fun for everyday use. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps.