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
On 02/03/2014 09:51 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
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.
kuickshow is fine - works very well and it 'fast', so I'm good with that.
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.
I don't know of a default video player. There must be one, I've just never run across it. Will look and see if I find anything.
I don't know of a default video player. There must be one, I've just never run across it. Will look and see if I find anything.
noatun-trinity :-)
Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp:
I don't know of a default video player. There must be one, I've just never run across it. Will look and see if I find anything.
noatun-trinity :-)
sorry, just found out that noatun does not play videos any more. Anyway, kaffeine-trinity does.
On 02/04/2014 11:41 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
I don't know of a default video player. There must be one, I've just never run across it. Will look and see if I find anything.
noatun-trinity :-)
Hmm. I tried playing a .mov file in noatun and it would not play at all. The handbook says noatun is an artsd synthesizer sound app. What kind of video can you play in it?
I've had success with 'xine' 'kmplayer' (very slow) 'mplayer' (ok but full screen) and 'kaffeine"
Of all the players, 'xine' and 'kaffeine' provided the best windowed video, 'mplayer' provided the best full-screen playback.
I guess 'xine' is installed as a dependency to the kmplayer build, but on its own is a good player -- much faster than kmplayer -- that's for sure...
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