Ubuntu Wiki

Criteria:

• 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)
• gwibber (twitter)

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)
• PDF Mod (PDF modification, but still very basic)

Tools:

• virtualbox? (virtual machine)

• <insert firewall software>

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