Article 505TY Community Input of BL5.1 app pack applications.

Community Input of BL5.1 app pack applications.

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rbtylee
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I always considered our App Pack ISO unnecessary fluff. It goes against two fundamental Bodhi principles:
  • Minimalism
  • User choice
If I remember the history right and this is hard for me to verify with the loss of our old forum DeepSpeed came up with the idea and Started making the ISO. More than enough users like it that Jeff Started maintaining it. And it has been with use ever since.

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
I am thinking of adding Atefan's Sticky Note Module as well as his compton module. Aside from that what apps does the community think should be installed? Any changes to the above list recommended?latest?d=yIl2AUoC8zA latest?i=jd1x4x5X5O0:h5huA6kaof8:F7zBnMy latest?i=jd1x4x5X5O0:h5huA6kaof8:V_sGLiP latest?d=qj6IDK7rITs latest?i=jd1x4x5X5O0:h5huA6kaof8:gIN9vFwjd1x4x5X5O0
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