Tour of Gnome Software

Table of Contents

• Tour of GNOME Software ("I Need a Program That Does This")
• Office Applications
• Image Editor
• Image Viewers
• PDF Readers
• E-Readers
• RSS Reader
• Scanners
• Multimedia Players
• Multimedia Ripping and Conversion
• Desktop Recording
• Sound and Video Editing
• Internet
• E-Mail
• Audiovisual Communication
• Chat Applications
• Torrent Client
• System Applications

Tour of GNOME Software ("I Need a Program That Does This")

One of the core aims of the Korora Project is to provide an out-of-box Linux experience that can take care of the average's users daily needs with entirely free software. To save you the trouble of digging through every preinstalled application, we have compiled a list of the prepackaged applications within each version of Korora that fulfill a specific purpose. This will hopefully save you some trouble from immediately downloading more software when the right tool may already be installed.

The GNOME desktop pulls all of its packages from The GNOME Project, its maintainers. These programs are usually built in-house and do not pull "upstream" from anywhere else.

On top of this, there are additional packages added by Korora.

Office Applications

PURPOSE: I Need To Edit Some Documents

• LibreOffice Writer (Document Editor, like Microsoft Word)
• LibreOffice Calc (Spreadsheet editor, like Microsoft Excel)
• LibreOffice Draw (Image and flowchart editor, like Microsoft Visio)
• LibreOffice Impress (Presentation and slide editor, like Microsoft Powerpoint)
• Project Management (plan projects)
• GNote (write short sticky-notes of information)
• gedit (Under the name "Text Editor")

Image Editor

PURPOSE: I Need to Touch Up Some Photos

• GIMP
• Darktable (Photography and RAW photo developer)
• Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)
• Cura LulzBot Edition (3D Printing software)

Image Viewers

PURPOSE: I Just Want to Look at Some Photos

• Eye of GNOME (Under the name "Image Viewer")
• Shotwell (Photo Manger)

PDF Readers

• Evince (Under the name "Document Viewer")

E-Readers

• FBReader (E-book and Comic Book reader)
• Evince (Under the name "Document Viewer")

RSS Reader

• Liferea

Scanners

PURPOSE: I Need to Scan a Document

• Simple Scan

Multimedia Players

PURPOSE: I Need to Play Some Music or Video

• VLC (Audio and Video player; supports most multimedia formats with no additional codecs)
• Rhythmbox (Audio player)

Multimedia Ripping and Conversion

PURPOSE: I Need to Rip My CD or DVD

• Brasero (copies and burns CDs and DVDs)
• Handbrake (Transcodes CDs, DVDs, and Blurays)
• Sound Juicer (rips audio CDs to your hard-drive)
• Sound Converter (Converts audio files to other formats)

Desktop Recording

• recordMyDesktop

Sound and Video Editing

• Audacity (audio editing program)
• Pitivi (video editing program)

Internet

• Firefox

E-Mail

• Evolution

Audiovisual Communication

PURPOSE: I Need to Call / Video Conference With Someone

• Ekiga Softphone

Chat Applications

• Empathy (IM app, has compatibility with AIM, Google Talk, XMPP, etc.)
• HexChat (IRC Client)

Torrent Client

• Transmission

System Applications

• GParted (Modify and delete system partitions)
• Backups (Create a backup of your system)
• ownCloud (Self-hosted file sync and share platform)