LQ Poll: What is still missing from Linux for you?

Originally Posted by josephj ico2xpm is also pretty handy. It converts Windows .ico icon files (tons available) to .xpm files which work (at least in KDE)

I still don't get it.
PSE try once

convert win32-gnumeric.ico -quality 100 win32-gnumeric.png

Or paint anything with “The Gimp”.

These are all things that will never happen, but really it would be nice:

A Linux version of Morrowind

A Linux version of Guild Wars

A Linux version of Acid (sequencing/audio program from the early 2000s)

To be able to run 32-bit windows programs on a pure 64-bit (not mulltilib) Linux system

A unified GTK system, so that with one version of GTK, programs linked against any previous versions will run transparently and easily.

The ability to do sms messenger sending, with video link. Google provides the interface, but there is no working webcam/microphone support any more.
I would also like to send a file as an attachment to a messenger contact.

Patrick Volkerding needs to catch a break.

I'd like it if my graphics driver (nvidia) didn't ever crash, and didn't take X with it when it did. Taken more generally, I wish the graphics stack didn't totally hang when one part of it is crapping out. Like, I wish there was some kind of multi-server operating system. Ahem. Someone out there is solving some of this problem on their own.

I want my deterministic shutdowns back. Bah.

I wish the audio situation was better: there's an awkward split between people who can use PulseAudio and those who need Jack. Red Hat is funding a new thing, but it's going to be a little while before everyone gets it and shakes the bugs out.

Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski I still don't get it. PSE try once convert win32-gnumeric.ico -quality 100 win32-gnumeric.png

windows ico files often contain different sizes in layers, the closest equivalent would be a GIF .
extracting/converting only one of them (what your convert command does) is not enough.

Originally Posted by jr_bob_dobbs A Linux version of Morrowind

http://www.openmw.org not good enough?

A bar and lapdancers.

Originally Posted by rockdw An actual gaming ecosystem (not running PC games under wine). It's a spiral of shops not writing games because there aren't any people playing on linux because there aren't any games being written because there's nobody playing on linux, etc.

+1 for Gaming.

Originally Posted by ondoho extracting/converting only one of them (what your convert command does) is not enough. http://www.openmw.org not good enough?

You have not tried. The command that I propose, will generate all the PNGs, needed. More can be considered luxury and luxury can be considered a must. By some. Buy some.

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Originally Posted by Michael Uplawski You have not tried. The command that I propose, will generate all the PNGs, needed.

indeed i haven't.
thanks for pointing that out.

Originally Posted by jr_bob_dobbs A Linux version of Acid (sequencing/audio program from the early 2000s)

Is Renoise insufficient?

indeed renoise is very good; the demo version is (or at least used to be) almost fully functional, only mastering is disabled, but i think this can be circumvented with jackaudio.

A WYSIWYG

The upgrade to LEAP 15 doesn't include Kompozer.

Installing Kompozer in LEAP 15 doesn't work.

Kompozer is no longer supported.

So What You See Is Not What You Hoped To Get (WYSINWYHTG), with the five different HTML editors I have installed and uninstalled in the last week.

With Kompozer, I was able to download a page of my web site, alter a word or two and repost it to the web in a couple of minutes. It takes about 30 minutes to do the same thing with windows.

Any recommendations?

Hi,
The program I miss most from OSX is "Calendar".
Second would be to be able to scan a document with a white (not grey) background so that on reprinting it it comes out with a white background as per the original.
Lastly would be a .pdf program to divide pages and add pages and annotate pages..... and to save a .pdf or a page of a .pdf as .jpg for example. An all in one tool-box. I manage to do this but I have to use several programs and some of them aren't great.

Originally Posted by Crb999 A WYSIWYG

... HTML-Editor.

As almost always, when WYSIWYG is evoked

My response, disguised as another contribution to the list of “missing” programs:
I wished there was again a C++ version of Arachnophilia available. This is not WYSIwhatever and it is even Java. But still the [put in your superlatives] HTML-Editor.

Mine is Vi, so what I write does not count.