I'd love to see AutoCAD or another good IntelliCAD like ZWCAD ported; i know there are many other CAD options on Linux, but as the de facto standard is AutoCAD, the learning curve is quite big. Hope this list came to Devs & Companies ears.
Elixis.

1. PASSWORD AGENT (from monsoftware.com) I NEED PASSWORD AGENT!
2. ACTION OUTLINE - from green parrots software. I NEED IT!
3. 1ST CLOCK - from green parrots software. I NEED IT!

all other programs i can work around, translate - whatever

Definitely the following :


1. Fruity Loops ( FL Studio ) - Music making S/W

( LMMS is an attempt at this, but pales in comparison to fruity loops )

2. Windows movie maker


If someone could tell me how to go about beginning porting the above, I can try to do them myself. But as I am right now, I have no idea how to begin doing them.

Thanks,
Abhinav

Another vote here for SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Those two, along with Accpac+MISys are the only things that prevent me from running Linux on my desktop at work.

EDIT: However, I currently have a slow-moving project that is intended to be an alternative to MISys/Accpac.

You can't, the source for this applications is closed as far as I know. So there's really no source that you could port.

You could however create new applications that try to imitate the look, feel and functionality of those, from scratch.

For educators a Gnu/Linux program similar to photoshop3 would be very useful.

What about The GIMP? Graphic Image Manipulation Program. It is similar in functionality but may lack some of the nifty plugins.

I would like to know if there is an international keyboard in any Linux distro. In win 98, the United States International keyboard allows diacriticals to be typed in rather than using some sort of copy and paste arrangement. This or something similar would be fine.
Or. a keyboard selection feature that would allow quick switching to those keyboards that have the needed diacriticals. And yes. I want to quickly switch back to an American keyboard since other keyboards have key positions switched around.

I feared that about Fruity-Loops. But thanks. I guess that's why LMMS is the best we've gotten up until now that resembles FL a bit.

I'll see what I can do to begin this or join an attempt. Thanks again !

In Ubuntu:
Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard, select the Layout Options tab, expand Compose key position and choose your preference (I use the left or right Win-key depending on if the PC has 1 or 2 WinKeys).

Obviously you can then switch back using the same procedure.

Hope this helps.

There is now Pixel Image Editor. http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/ .
Take a look at the screenshots. It looks, at least to me, like a merging of Photoshop 7 with ImageReady CS1. So you get both without having to use Adobe's silly juncture command in the File menu.

Herr Kanzelsberger originally had his earlier versions available free of charge, and as I write this, the app itself (which has ports and/or builds to (for) Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, most all the Linux distys, BeOS, SkyOS and MorphOS) is going for 33EUR ($55 USD). In the near future, Herr K. intends to re-institute his intended price of 80EUR (which today is pegged at $124.63 USD).

Now for my own "why don't they port this," in presenting it I am answering my own question. I've used this application long enough to know something of its history, but it also happens to be among the few applications (read here) keeping me from ditching Windows XP full-stop. It was called iView Media Pro before Microsoft bought the vendors and changed its name to Expression Media. The other post I linked to in this one gives a brief explanation as to why I'd like to see an analogue in Linux, and why I choose not to run it in WINE.

Have a good one, folks.

BZT

AutoCAD, SolidWorks with allowing 3D modeling

One of the reasons for me asking for WordPerfect to be ported to Linux (see my earlier postings) was the ease with which accented characters could be entered. In MS-DOS and Window$ based applications it was possible to enter the great majority of accented characters which I need by using the extended ASCII character set. Thus {Alt-130} gives é, {Alt-133} gives à. As Window$ does not permit ? (Question Mark) in file names, ¿ {Alt-168} is a very useful alternative. When the characters I want are not in the extended ASCII character set, then I can normally find them in the WordPerfect character set 1.

Yes, I know that with OpenOffice I can easily call up the UniCode Character set, and reliably get an accented character in my finished text (you should see what Micro$oft Office does with its character map - no consistency across platforms), but I miss the facility to insert a character with a simple keyboard macro.....

@malwodyn:
Look back four posts and you can get a hint. I too use different characters sometimes and now I just press the right-ALT key. It's under Xkb options in Kubuntu. As easy as DOS!

Dear malwodyn,
I heartily agree with you on the desirability of a current port of WordPerfect to Linux. I have the original port, and that was great, but that was many moons ago, and I would now gladly pay some wampum to get a port of some of the more recent editions of WordPerfect.
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