Community Input of BL5.1 app pack applications.
by rbtylee from LinuxQuestions.org on (#505TY)
I always considered our App Pack ISO unnecessary fluff. It goes against two fundamental Bodhi principles:
While I may consider it unnecessary, I have no plans on abandoning it. A user on Discord told me he never would have used Bodhi without the App Pack version. Odd to me because before I started using Bodhi one of the first things I used to do after installing a distro was see what was installed and uninstall a lot of unneeded stuff. And then of course install what I wanted. To a minor degree I Even do that with Bodhi, on my laptop I have replaced esudo with gksudo (compiled from source), removed eepDater and closely examined the package list and removed a few things here and there.
Odd to me or not, a certain percentage of our users like the app Pack ISO and appreciate getting something more akin to a functioning DE than a bare bones Bodhi install provides. With this in mind, I would like some community input on the applications installed on the App Pack.
For reference here is a list of the apps currently installed (ignoring stuff I certainly am removing):


- Minimalism
- User choice
While I may consider it unnecessary, I have no plans on abandoning it. A user on Discord told me he never would have used Bodhi without the App Pack version. Odd to me because before I started using Bodhi one of the first things I used to do after installing a distro was see what was installed and uninstall a lot of unneeded stuff. And then of course install what I wanted. To a minor degree I Even do that with Bodhi, on my laptop I have replaced esudo with gksudo (compiled from source), removed eepDater and closely examined the package list and removed a few things here and there.
Odd to me or not, a certain percentage of our users like the app Pack ISO and appreciate getting something more akin to a functioning DE than a bare bones Bodhi install provides. With this in mind, I would like some community input on the applications installed on the App Pack.
For reference here is a list of the apps currently installed (ignoring stuff I certainly am removing):
- aRandR
- Blender
- Chromium Web Browser
- ePhoto Image Viewer
- ePulse Audio Settings
- eSudo
- Evince Document Viewer
- Filezilla FTP Client
- gDebi
- Geany Text Editor
- HexChat IRC
- Inkscape
- Libre Office
- OpenShot Video Editor
- Pinta Graphics Tool
- PCManFM File Manager
- Pidgen
- PlayOnLinux
- Printer Support
- Qalculate Calculator
- Samba Support
- Steam
- Swami System Panel
- Synaptic Package Manager
- system-config-printer-gnome
- Terminology Terminal Emulator
- Transmission
- VLC Media Player
- xfburn