Table of Contents
Linux software menu
In this section, we want to give a quick overview of what is available on the software menu. We are not going to describe every piece of software in detail, but this overview will get notes added about the local setup, and links to the documentation of the package.
An attempt like this is bound to be out-of-date, because software changes rapidly. Please help us to help you; if a piece of software is not documented here, drop us a note. And if something that is documented here appears to be missing, please tell us; perhaps it was dropped by mistake, or it was replaced by another package, and we will do our best to get it back, or document its removal.
Different desktop environments will have a slightly different layout of their menu. The current page reflects the menu as found in Cinnamon.
See also our desktop applications overview, which lists components of the various desktops. A listing of programs by category is also available
Accessories
- File Roller - Archive manager (tar, zip etc archives)
- Backup - DejaDup backup tool; one of the tools to automate the task of making backups
- PDFmod (tool for modifying pdf documents)
(most of the other tools are the usual accessories like calculators, which do not really require a description here)
Education
- Cantor (math)
- Celestia (planetarium)
- Octave (GNU Octave / QtOctave interfaces; numerical computations, very Matlab-like)
- HDFview - viewer for HDF (4 & 5) format data
- IDL - commercial data visualization tool / programming language
- KBibTex - GUI for editing bibtex files
- Mayavi - visualization
- Mendeley Desktop - reference manager
- Stellarium (planetarium)
Electronics
Games
No description
Graphics
- Blender - 3D modeling and rendering
- Dia - diagram editor
- g3data - extracting data from plots
- Grace - numerical, visualization
- Inkscape - vector-based drawing
- JaxoDraw - Feynman diagrams
- Karbon
- LibreOffice Draw
- ParaView - Parallel visualization
- Scribus - desktop publishing
- Veusz - scientific plotting package
can be installed on demand
Internet
- Claws Mail] - [[:Email client & news reader
- Empathy - instant messenger
- Filezilla - ftp/ftps/sftp client
- Kmail - Email client
- Knode - news reader
- Konqueror - web browser
- Putty SSH client
- Thunderbird (also see Email)
Office
- Calibre E-book reader
- Calligra office suite previously KOffice
- Document viewer = Evince. See also desktop applications
- Stardict dictionary
- YAGF text recognition
Other
This menu shouldn't be there; entries in this menu are waiting to be moved to their proper location.
Programming
- Anjuta IDE
- Bluefish Web editor
- Cervisia CVS interface
- Code::Blocks IDE for C++
- Diffuse merge tool comparing and merging text files
- Emacs editor environment
- Geany IDE
- IDLde
- iPython QT console
- Meld text compare, merge, version control
- Python IDLE - Python IDE
- QT 4 designer/linguist tools for developing with the QT libraries
- Quanta Plus - web development
- SciTE editor
- TortoiseHg - GUI for Mercurial
- Umbrello UML tools
Sound and Video
- Audacious audio player
- Avidemux video editor
- Banshee music manager
- Brasero CD/DVD writer
- Cheese webcam photobooth
- Grip audio cd ripping (convert cd to files)
- K3b CD/DVD writer
- Kdenlive video editor
- MPlayer movie player
- Pitivi video editor
- Rhythmbox music manager, iTunes lookalike
- Totem video player (aka Videos)
- xfBurn CD/DVD writer
- Xine & gXine media player
- XMMS audio player
Universal access
Administration
Preferences
