gnome-utils proposal

[vidd]

Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
One thing I would like to see is the Volume Manager Plugin activated and 
set with "Device - Default"
With this plugin  turned on, laptop and keyboard volume control buttons 
just work without any tinkering

vidd