Ideas for showing off Gnome on FreeBSD?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 18:25, Murray Stokely wrote:
> Tomorrow Matt and I have a short appearance on TechTV to do a FreeBSD
> vs Linux segment.  We've already got some ideas from the KDE guys
> about apps to show off (Gnumeric, qcad, kplayer, ..).  Do you have any
> other ideas about how to make FreeBSD look good against Linux?  The
> producers want GUI eyecandy that will show up nicely on video.

AbiWord2 is nearing its stable 2.0 release.  Gucharmap is also a nice
bit of eye-candy (looks like OS X's character map application). 
Rhythmbox is a nice GNOME 2 MP3/Ogg player built on gstreamer.  Whatever
you do, stay away from gnomesystemmonitor (doesn't work really well with
FreeBSD [yet]).  I hear the GKrellM stuff is good.

The wireless applet in GNOME 2 works on FreeBSD as does
net/netspeed_applet.  Epiphany, Galeon, and Mozilla-Firebird look nice
on FreeBSD.  Gimp-devel is the GTK 2 version of Gimp, and it looks very
nice.  I would also show off MrProject as a nice prihect management tool
with a gantt interface.  Totem plays video streams and DVDs nicely. 
Evolution is working, and makes for a nice demo.  I would also show off
news/pan2 if you get a chance.  It's been praised as one of the best
looking and feeling GUIs out there.  Also, deskutils/gdeskcal is nothing
but eye candy (too bad gDesklets aren't ported yet :-().  Gaim is a nice
functional app on FreeBSD, and also adds a little notification area
icon.  If you can, showing off gnomemeeting would be cool, too.  

Maybe some of the other FreeBSD GNOME users have some better or more
specific ideas.  Let me know if you need help configuring, building, or
setting up any of the GNOME stuff.

Joe

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