Some lesser known Ubuntu/GNOME apps
I’m going to try and limit this to apps that everybody hasn’t already heard of. Most of these you can just apt-get, and most of these I use at least daily.
- Shutter - A screenshot program. Supports windows, selections, the desktop, uploading to online image hosts, inline image editing, etc. Really slick.
- Midori - A GTK + WebKit based browser. Extremely lightweight/fast and finally stable with the latest (0.2.x) versions.
- Parcellite - A clipboard manager that sits in the tray and saves a history of your copies. Has saved my butt MANY times.
- gpick - A color picking tool that lets you grab a color from anywhere on your desktop and has support for building color schemes.
- Mirage - A really quick image viewer with a layout that makes more sense than EOG or gThumb. Has support for really basic editing.
- GMate - If you’re a coder, GMate will install and configure a bunch of plugins for gEdit
- Guake - This borders on well-known, but whatever. It’s a really cool dropdown terminal that I use about every 10 seconds.
- Microblog Purple - Integrates microblog platforms like Twitter into libpurple messengers, like Pidgin.
- Getting Things GNOME - A nice little task manager with some cool plugins. I don’t use it anymore, but that’s just because I’m too lazy.
- PDF Mod - Pretty simple PDF editing app that lets you rotate, remove pages, add pages, reorder, etc.
