Programs to add to the Software Boutique

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I often use Deluge as a torrent client since it is GTK.

DeVeDe could be a nice addition its probably the only gui software I install that is not in the boutique.

I’ve added Zotero (zotero.org and launchpad) to the wiki. It is the best alternative to the proprietary referencing tools Thomson Reuters EndNote and Elsevier Mendeley.

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@Wimpy You should also take a glance at this guy other extensions:

Nautilus-lxSplit
Split or join files with Nautilus-lxSplit extension, incase you need to send a file on gmail, but is bigger than 25MB you can split it into parts, and then join them when you receive them.

Website

sudo add-apt-repository nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-lxsplit

Nautilus Document Converter

  • Convert documents between 100 different formats on Nautilus context menu.
  • If necessary automatically starts LibreOffice to convert
  • It can be used as client / server
  • You can use templates to convert the document
  • Is multi platform

[Website](http://www.atareao.es/apps/convertir-pdf-en-ubuntu-con-nautilus-document-converter//)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-document-converter

Nautilus-PrintIt
Lets you print one or multiple images without having to open Gimp or other image applications. Comments mention that he is working on adding pdf print.

Website

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-printit

nautilus- copypaste -images
nautilus- copypaste -images is a plugin for Nautilus that allows us to copy and paste images to the clipboard in Ubuntu from any image editor ( Gimp , Krita , Paint , etc ) and Nautilus. It creates new images from existing ones , you only select what you need from a particular image in any editor , and paste it in Nautilus , and in the same way , you can copy it in Nautilus , and paste it into the editor images , all simple , fast and effective.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g8iKN6hidRU/Vs9tDtjEH8I/AAAAAAAAyJs/bmEWrV3396s/s800/Guardar%2520la%2520imagen%2520del%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520%2520portapapeles%2520como%2520..._476.png

Website
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-copypaste-images

Crushing Machine
Crushing Machine you can delete files securely so that it cant be able to restore it. It's a GUI of the app secure rm (srm) .

Website

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install crushing-machine

replace-me
Replaces strings in multiple files

Website

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/nautilus-extensions
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install replace-me
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Crushing Machine looks very good (the other suggestions are great too). What is your experience with it and do you think it is good enough for the Software Boutique? Or are you suggesting possible integration into Caja in form of a context menu entry Securely Delete? If something like this is technically feasible it would be amazing! @Cold

@maro

Crushing machine is a program that has nautilus integration with the context menu showing Securely Delete option. If you press that you will go to that program window and delete the stuff, or you can open the program by going into the other category. Haven’t tried it yet, just found it and wanted to show it to the mate team to check it, and help atareao in porting it.

BTW, where can I check what extensions for caja exist?

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Hi @Cold,

does this help?:

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/applications:caja

My suggestion:

Quite RSS

Quite RSS is an extensive configurable Feedreader and alternative to liferea for those who are searching more options.

Links:

https://quiterss.org

https://launchpad.net/~quiterss

Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:quiterss/quiterss
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install quiterss

ClipGrab

A simple app to download youtube videos and convert them to mp3 or other filestypes.

Link:

https://launchpad.net/~clipgrab-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

http://clipgrab.de

Installation:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clipgrab

Ocamlfuse

"Google-drive-ocamlfuse is a FUSE filesystem backed by Google Drive, written in OCaml. It lets you mount your Google Drive on Linux." https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse

Usage

The first time, you can run google-drive-ocamlfuse without parameters:

google-drive-ocamlfuse

This command will create the default application directory (~/.gdfuse/default), containing the configuration file config (see the wiki page for more details about configuration). And it will start a web browser to obtain authorization to access your Google Drive. This will let you modify default configuration before mounting the filesystem.

Then you can mount the filesystem:

google-drive-ocamlfuse mountpoint

If you have more than one account, you can run:

google-drive-ocamlfuse -label label [mountpoint]

Using label to distinguish different accounts. The program will use the directory ~/.gdfuse/label to host configuration, application state, and file cache. No file is shared among different accounts, so you can have a different configuration for each one.

Recoll

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool.

Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.

It can search most document formats. You may need external applications for text extraction.
It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.
One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.
The software is free, open source, and licensed under the GPL.
Detailed features and application requirements for supported document types.

From: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/

sudo add-apt repository ppa:recoll-backports/recoll-1.15-on
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll python xsltproc unzip
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils antiword wv libwpd-tools catdoc libchm-bin info tar librdf-icalendar-perl unrtf untex dvi2ps libimage-exiftool-perl python-chardet python-midiutil 

Info: Original Icon is not in Screenshot. I changed it to a custom one of Numix-Icons.

Numix Theme and Icons

Examples see in my screenshots above!

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:numix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme numix-icon-theme-circle

https://numixproject.org

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OK I’ve held my peace for too long.

This is by no means an emergency but I think SMPlayer would be a nice addition to the “Sound & Video” section of the software boutique.

It’s one of the programs I always install first thing - it’s in the standard Ubuntu repos.

Very nice interface. The keyboard shortcuts also closely match what I was using back in the dark days. The days I was a Windows user: Media Player Classic

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@wolfman Thanks for the link. Hmm, seems a little empty.

@lah7, @anon42388993 or another mod right now, would it be better if you separate my extension post to another thread so that people could add useful ones, and not clutter this one?

Oh and Antiviral got a new look recently:

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Krita is the one that I wish the most to be added. Btw version 3 is out now!

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Hey guys, there are many very good programs to add to Software boutique, the question is, you want to put the most inportant or make an alternative to Gnome Software, Ubuntu Software ....

  • I would put all programs with 4 or 5 star default Ubuntu software,
    They are really missing open source programs that are not there, but could be added, and before programs open to proprietary software code.

my essential programs are:
VLC
clementine
gparted
Gimp
Synaptic
Firefox
Opera
Libreoffice
Brasero
K3b
kdenlive
openshot
kaffeine
kazam
soundconverter
qBittorrent
Calibre
Wine
Telegram
Sound juicer
bleachbit

but we need programs that make bigger to Ubuntu mate

programs for primary, secondary and higher education are very important

Internet chat programs, file sharing and videoconferencing.

games, the more there are the better.

I think you could add: RawTherapee, ImagePlay for image editing,Krita to draw, RING to video conferencing ,
Mintstick to format usb stick and make iso boot.

regards...

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Is there a reason why OpenShot is not part of the Software Boutique? Is it possible to include the spaced repetition software ANKI and Mnemosyne Project to the Software Boutique? Does anyone know of any official or unofficial PPAs for these programs and why do .deb files not work with/qualify for the boutique? They are both the very best digital flash card programs and vocabulary trainers and would be an extremely valuable addition to the education section of the boutique. I have used them on Android and Windows, not sure if there is an easy way to get them to run on Ubuntu MATE.

I dont know if there are ppa’s, but couldn’t fond some. In my suggestion are only ppa’s in software boutique includet, because there’s much less work to maintain the boutique and especially updates. But I don’t really know.

For you as probably interested in scientific and learn software: do you know Zettelkasten?

There is now ppa as well, but it’s a great application! I’ve written my Thesis with it.

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OpenShot is committed and will feature in the next Ubuntu MATE Welcome release :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Atreju for bring introducing Zettelkasten to some of us. I didn’t know it existed. I’ll check it out for my personal use.

To everyone else, since someone already mention Zotero for academic purpose, thought I’d bring Jabref, a BibText bibliography manager. I know there are a lot of this managers in the linux ecosystem, but I thought I’d add to the conversation about academic software. If anybody think there are more efficient one from the one I mention, just keep on mentiong apps.

Here is some the documentation if Jabref regarding linux, by it’s Faq page:
http://www.jabref.org/faq/#faq20_linux/ (is edited because is long. If someone wants to read more click the link)

Q: JabRef does not start under Linux! What can I do?

A: JabRef works fine under Linux if you use a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Oracle version 1.8 and newer (…)

Under Debian/Ubuntu it works like this (you need to have admin privileges):

sudo update-alternatives --config java

(…)

Q: Does JabRef run under free Java (Classpath, Kaffee, GCJ, etc.)?

A: As far as we know, JabRef is not yet running on these free JVMs, due of our dependencies.
However, JabRef is reported to run nicely on the IcedTea runtime, which is based on the OpenJDK built with GNU Classpath to fill in missing classes. Some issues have been encountered with the LookAndFell (see Issue #393).

In the case of the ppa:

i found this link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jabref (the ppa are in the end of the page, they are under: “Other versions of ‘jabref’ in untrusted archives”.

Because the Jabref’s site: has this link: http://www.jabref.org/#downloads which goes to: http://www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html

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Whew, this thread has got a little messy. :clear:

RetroArch seems to have been added to Yakkety a while ago, but it'll come to Xenial in the next update.


For the others, please could we have separate topics in #development-discussion for the other software that would still like to be added, following these guidelines:

That way, we can track community interest and how many give the :thumbsup: for how well each application works.

Thanks! :slight_smile: