Text documents - I vote kwite over kate. If you are clicking on a text file 99 times out of 100 you are doing it to open a single text file and not something to include in a project.
Images - open in kview (fast as lightning - not the best on autozoom with middle mouse, but a reasonable trade-off, gwenview KolourPaint, ShowPhoto, Krita, etc. are all more full featured apps, better for working with multiple images, but slower with more overhead.
Sound files - Noatun or kaboodle (for same reasons) amarok, etc. are more full featured, but much slower/larger (Noatun slightly more file formats supported)
Videos - mplayer or kaffeine. kaffeine much faster, but mplayer is not a bad 2nd.
What are your thoughts?
Ask 10 people and likely we'll receive 11 opinions.
All defaults have to be with the base packages. Anything in applications is not a base package.
kwrite as the default editor is fine although I use both a lot and have them configured differently.
I'm a long-time tdegraphics/kuickshow user. I even have a command line alias 'ks' so I can quickly view images that I search for within the terminal.
Do the base Trinity packages include a video player? I don't think so. MPLayer? Not a Trinity app. Kaboodle is labeled a media player but I am unable to open any video files. Only sound files. Kaboodle should at least fail gracefully with a dialog rather than just there like a dead log and require forced termination and we should change the About dialog to Audio Player.
Darrell