Programs, what you like to see in Slackware tree

solarfields · 08-04-2012, 04:58 AM

terminus font is great

brianL · 08-04-2012, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by GazL

How about the terminus fonts too while were about it.

... Be nice to have them added to the setconsolefont dialog.

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Originally Posted by solarfields

terminus font is great

And a third vote for terminus fonts.

sycamorex · 08-04-2012, 05:28 AM

Another one from me

Bazzaah · 08-04-2012, 06:06 AM

Digikam would be nice.

solarfields · 08-04-2012, 06:09 AM

now when xfce is in its own category, how about adding the good old GDM?

kikinovak · 08-04-2012, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by solarfields

now when xfce is in its own category, how about adding the good old GDM?

+1 for that.

Soderlund · 08-04-2012, 11:36 AM

The excellent worker file manager:

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker

Unless I'm reading top wrong (on Debian), it consumes about 4 MB memory, with virtually no dependencies. All the features makes it the only GUI tool you need except for TWM.

SlackBuilds has it.

dugan · 08-04-2012, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by bosth

Faenza looks good in KDE, too.

I prefer the KFaenza theme for KDE.

Didier Spaier · 08-04-2012, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Soderlund

The excellent worker file manager:

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker

Unless I'm reading top wrong (on Debian), it consumes about 4 MB memory, with virtually no dependencies. All the features makes it the only GUI tool you need except for TWM.

SlackBuilds has it.

I second that. Worker is the application I install first in addition to official packages in every new Slackware (the second one being geany).

dugan · 08-04-2012, 12:52 PM

I would like to have the firmware files needed to get wifi dongles to work. For example, it would be nice for wifi dongles that use the ar9721 chipset to work out of the box, instead of requiring a separate firmware download.

disturbed1 · 08-04-2012, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by solarfields

now when xfce is in its own category, how about adding the good old GDM?

I asked the same thing. At the present time, there are issues getting recent versions to compile without PAM.
You can use 2.20.11 from SBo, works flawlessly here including suspend/hibernate from the greeter window. Which is an essential feature on multiuser PC's. I've never had great luck with the "new login" feature.

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Originally Posted by rworkman

gdm-2.20.x is the last one we could possibly ship. 2.x stuff newer than that require PAM (and later, something else too iirc), and the 3.x stuff require all of that plus something else that I couldn't be bothered to figure out -- basically, even with PAM and whatever else, gdm-3.x wouldn't work here. I decided to quit fighting it and just use kdm -- it works fine, and aside from not supporting suspend/hibernate from the greeter window, it does everything I want it to do.

wol, or another application capable of sending magic packets for wake on lan, would be a great addition to Slackware.

damgar · 08-04-2012, 02:57 PM

Even GSB is using GDM 2.20.11

TobiSGD · 08-05-2012, 04:57 AM

Instead of GDM I would rather like to see SliM in Slackware. I couldn't care less about display managers, I don't use them, but I would think that SliM is a better fit for XFCE than GDM.

vharishankar · 08-05-2012, 05:29 AM

MyPaint.

Getting MyPaint to work in Slackware currently seems to require a recompile of pygtk with numpy support.

EDITED TO ADD:
I consider having to recompile an official package a big maintenance pain, basically because I'd have to do it for every upgrade.

ReaperX7 · 08-05-2012, 06:41 AM

Instead of GDM, why not Qingy display manager? It's lightweight, and is independent of the desktop. I think it mostly relies on DirectFB. I think it does use PAM, but I'm not sure if it's required or optional.