{"id":474,"date":"2007-02-21T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/21\/useful-oss-software-for-the-desktop"},"modified":"2007-02-21T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:02:30","slug":"useful-oss-software-for-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/21\/useful-oss-software-for-the-desktop","title":{"rendered":"(Useful) OSS Software for the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>gnash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not exactly seen much working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gnash\/\">Gnash<\/a>, which is what I have installed: <code>gnash<\/code> and <code>gnash-plugin<\/code>. A quick visit to Youtube, confirms that gnash is still not exactly usable, and the bug seems to be with <a href=\"https:\/\/savannah.gnu.org\/bugs\/?18661\">ActionExtend and Super (AS inheritance)<\/a> not being implemented yet. There is hope nonetheless, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.tv\/\">Lulu TV<\/a> also use these features, and are hosting the Gnash developers wiki, which might mean there&#8217;s some corporate backing of gnash development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>gnome-dictionary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>gnome-utils provides the Dictionary, which is just a front-end to an online dictionary. This is great, but works horribly if you&#8217;re <strong><em>offline<\/em><\/strong>. Mac OS X clearly has the upside here, as I can just use the Dashboard dictionary applet to find words. It also comes with a working thesaurus, something the &#8220;Similar Words&#8221; feature in the GNOME Dictionary doesn&#8217;t seem to grok.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deskbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/quicksilver.blacktree.com\/\">Quicksilver<\/a>? You&#8217;ll definitely like the <a href=\"http:\/\/raphael.slinckx.net\/deskbar\/\">Deskbar Applet<\/a> (<code>deskbar-applet<\/code> from Fedora Extras). Its not Ctrl+Space controlled, which it instead has picked up on Alt+F3 as the keyboard shortcut of choice. It has Beagle (Spotlight equivalent) integration, can connect to the Fedora bugzilla just via a bug number, and do so much more. I don&#8217;t have Thunderbird integration, and notice that its a planned feature for the future &#8211; I can&#8217;t hardly wait.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20%28Useful%29%20OSS%20Software%20for%20the%20Desktop&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F02%2F21%2Fuseful-oss-software-for-the-desktop&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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A quick visit to Youtube, confirms that gnash is still not exactly usable, and the bug seems to be with ActionExtend and Super (AS inheritance) not being implemented yet. There is hope nonetheless, as Lulu TV also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20%28Useful%29%20OSS%20Software%20for%20the%20Desktop&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F02%2F21%2Fuseful-oss-software-for-the-desktop&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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SeaMonkey This doesn't exist in Feisty Fawn. Apparently, it was around before, and is most likely guaranteed to be in Gutsy Gibbon, but if you're a Feisty Fawn user, you're bent out of luck. My journey started\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1349,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/27\/dictionary-data-for-mysql","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":1},"title":"Dictionary data for MySQL?","date":"27\/2\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm told WordWeb, a dictionary application for Windows, allows you to find words, quite unlike the MacOSX dictionary. I've never even found a usable dictionary when I use Linux, that doesn't require me to go online. The whole idea is that if I search for the phrase cure all, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Databases&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":839,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/15\/define-camwhore","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":2},"title":"Define: camwhore","date":"15\/6\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Google needs this in their dictionary. Thank goodness, the Urban Dictionary offers several opinions on what it is to be a camwhore (thus, practising the art of camwhoring, or to camwhore). See: narcissism, media whore Synonymous with: attention whore Ref.: Wikipedia:Cam_whore, On whoring oneself N\/B: camwhoring has nothing to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":615,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/06\/disabling-help-in-gnome","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":3},"title":"Disabling help in GNOME?","date":"6\/9\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes, when I have my laptop, well, on my lap, I accidentally hit the F1 key when I really am aiming to hit the Escape key. I dislike Help popping up, regularly. In vain, I looked for a way to do this in System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"removing yelp didn't help in gnome","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1077\/1335365862_6604e6d16f_o.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":751,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/19\/on-the-importance-of-british-english","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":4},"title":"On the importance of British English","date":"19\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I like to spell with British English. Its probably because of my upbringing doing the O Level Examinations, at my high school. For the last few days that Mac was annoying me, so I found out how to have British English available for all my applications. System Preferences -> International\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/23\/gnome-blog-works","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":5},"title":"gnome-blog works?","date":"23\/5\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, here's me testing to see if gnome-blog works with WordPress. It seems to, so yay to that. Just remember to set the blog to a self-run other, use the BloggerAPI, use your \"xmlrpc.php\" file as the URL, enter the username\/password, and post away. 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