Hi @Cold,
does this help?:
My suggestion:
Quite RSS
Quite RSS is an extensive configurable Feedreader and alternative to liferea for those who are searching more options.
Links:
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
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
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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 
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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. 
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 
for how well each application works.
Thanks!