Comments | strangedave: 10 Apps

strangedave

10 Apps

Feb 07, 2012 18:08

Months ago, a few people where listing the 10 apps they usually had open. I finally got around to it ( Read more... )

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artisanat February 8 2012, 12:24:55 UTC

I use MailTags which I'm fairly happy with and I have used Act-On and may do again. It went through an awkward phase when there wasn't a current version that worked with an OS upgrade so I quit using it. I also use Things for to-do's and it works quite well with Mail in that a key combination will make a Things item with a link to the message.

strangedave February 10 2012, 10:19:43 UTC

I keep experimenting with add-ons such as MailTags in the hope it will make Mail more suited to my habits.

shrydar February 9 2012, 01:44:44 UTC

How are you finding Mail with IMAP? My primary account (hosted with Google Apps) seems horrendously slow; I've been putting off trying switching back to POP for a few years now.

It does seem to handle multiple accounts and mailing lists better than anything else I've tried.

strangedave February 10 2012, 10:20:34 UTC

It does seem crazy slow. As it is mostly chugging along in the background, I just ignore the ridiculous delay most of the time, but sometimes its a real problem.

tcpip February 10 2012, 06:39:18 UTC

For me...

1. GNOME terminal.
2. Gedit
3. Firefox
4. Pidgin
5. Banshee
6. Evince
7. LibreOffice
8. Thunar
9. X-Windows
10. FreeCiv

strangedave February 10 2012, 10:34:55 UTC

I wouldn't have thought X-Windows counted as an app itself. More the nasty thing that lurks beneath the surface of otherwise reasonable apps.
Hmmm... glancing at a few things on that list makes me grateful to be a Mac user, to be honest, some of them look a bit mediocre, especially evince.

tcpip February 15 2012, 02:25:17 UTC

Evince isn't as fancy as Adobe Reader, but it's light and fast which is what I need.

strangedave February 15 2012, 03:38:41 UTC

Oh, Adobe Reader is a bloated lump, filled with lots of features no one uses and some disastrous UI decisions. But comparing evince to my free reader options on OS X (Preview and Skim), both of which are fairly light and fast, it seems both feature lacking (no annotation features at all, limited export etc) and the UI seems a bit flabby (all that space at the top taken up by a few giant buttons).
Not that I'm saying it is dreadful or anything, just saying that I'm certainly not feeling that I am missing out by using OS X. I know the generalisation about Linux not generally having the same polish as regards UI is a lot of why I don't use it as my desktop OS (I use Linux for servers, though), but it is interesting to test that in detail.