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put list of proposed featured apps here Criteria:
 * Is available in main or universe
 * Is a GUI app
 * Does not replace a default application
 * Does not replace another featured application
 * Is well designed for the task and robust

Personas:
 * A graphic designer (might be amateur)
 * A child
 * ...

Proposed featured applications:
 * cheese (photobooth)
 * gnucash (accounting)
 * gramps (genealogy)
 * XBox Media Center or Moovida (media center)
 * <insert programming tools?>
 * <insert scientific tools?>
 * stellarium (planetarium)
 * dia (diagramming)
 * gtg (Getting Things GNOME, work tracker)
 * gnome-do (fast keyboard based access)
 * deja-dup (backup)
 
Editors:
 * gimp (bitmap graphics)
 * inkscape (vector graphics)
 * blender (3d graphics)
 * imagination (DVD generator as pitivi does not support it)
 * jokosher (multi-track studio)
 * audacity (audio editor)

Tools:
 * virtualbox? (virtual machine)
 * gaiksaurus (thesaurus)
 * gufw (firewall tool)

Games:
 * frozen-bubble (fun game (too big for CD))
 * glchess (chess)
 * Tux racer (or whatever it keeps getting renamed to)
 * Flight gear (flight simulator)
 * Saurbraten (FPS, or Nexuiz?)
 * Spring (RTS)
 * The Ur-Quan masters (aka Starcon 2 - ex commercial game)
 * Beneath a Steel Sky (Adventure, ex commercial)
 * Flight of the Amazon Queen (Adventure, ex commercial)
 * scorched3d (turn based tank game)
 * freeciv (turn based strategy)
 * TORCS (car racing)
 * Battle for Wesnoth (fantasy RTS)
 * Platform game (supertux?)
 * Pingus (lemmings clone)
 * super tuxcart
 * simutrans (transport simulator)
 * pioneers (settlers of catan clone)
 * fretsonfire (Guitar hero clone)
 * <insert games suitable for children>

Rejected choices:
 * epiphany-webkit (light weight web browser?) DUPE of Firefox
 * gnumeric (light weight spreadsheet) DUPE of OO.o
 * abiword (lightweight and collaborative document editing) DUPE or OO.o
 * xchat-gnome (IRC) DUPE of empathy
 * miro (media player) DUPE of totem
 * pyroom (editor) NOT GUI
 * gwibber (twitter) Already shipping by default in Lucid.
 * PDF Mod (PDF modification) NOT PACKAGED

Criteria:

  • Is available in main or universe
  • Is a GUI app
  • Does not replace a default application
  • Does not replace another featured application
  • Is well designed for the task and robust

Personas:

  • A graphic designer (might be amateur)
  • A child
  • ...

Proposed featured applications:

  • cheese (photobooth)
  • gnucash (accounting)
  • gramps (genealogy)
  • XBox Media Center or Moovida (media center)

  • <insert programming tools?>

  • <insert scientific tools?>

  • stellarium (planetarium)
  • dia (diagramming)
  • gtg (Getting Things GNOME, work tracker)
  • gnome-do (fast keyboard based access)
  • deja-dup (backup)

Editors:

  • gimp (bitmap graphics)
  • inkscape (vector graphics)
  • blender (3d graphics)
  • imagination (DVD generator as pitivi does not support it)
  • jokosher (multi-track studio)
  • audacity (audio editor)

Tools:

  • virtualbox? (virtual machine)
  • gaiksaurus (thesaurus)
  • gufw (firewall tool)

Games:

  • frozen-bubble (fun game (too big for CD))
  • glchess (chess)
  • Tux racer (or whatever it keeps getting renamed to)
  • Flight gear (flight simulator)
  • Saurbraten (FPS, or Nexuiz?)
  • Spring (RTS)
  • The Ur-Quan masters (aka Starcon 2 - ex commercial game)
  • Beneath a Steel Sky (Adventure, ex commercial)
  • Flight of the Amazon Queen (Adventure, ex commercial)
  • scorched3d (turn based tank game)
  • freeciv (turn based strategy)
  • TORCS (car racing)
  • Battle for Wesnoth (fantasy RTS)
  • Platform game (supertux?)
  • Pingus (lemmings clone)
  • super tuxcart
  • simutrans (transport simulator)
  • pioneers (settlers of catan clone)
  • fretsonfire (Guitar hero clone)

  • <insert games suitable for children>

Rejected choices:

  • epiphany-webkit (light weight web browser?) DUPE of Firefox
  • gnumeric (light weight spreadsheet) DUPE of OO.o
  • abiword (lightweight and collaborative document editing) DUPE or OO.o
  • xchat-gnome (IRC) DUPE of empathy
  • miro (media player) DUPE of totem
  • pyroom (editor) NOT GUI
  • gwibber (twitter) Already shipping by default in Lucid.
  • PDF Mod (PDF modification) NOT PACKAGED

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