A Helping application for beginners Linux and Open Source in General

[Draciron Smith]

Instead of a search engine what would be useful is an equivalents app with
lots of choices including non-KDE software in many cases. Most of the time
the best of breed for an app is a KDE app. Nothing approaches K3b in my
opinion though there are now imitations of K3b for Gnome and other
desktops. However there are some apps like Gimp that there is no KDE app
which comes close and realistically no point in writing a KDE app to do
what Gimp does. Gimp does what it does extremely well and duplicating
efforts makes no sense. Sane with apps like Audacity and Cinalera, etc.
The reason I say choices is a lot of KDE default software to be blunt is
pretty sorry. I'd be eternally frustrated if I had to use Dolphin on a
regular basis. For me Krusader is MUCH more efficient and intuitive and
powerful. There are a few things which Dolphin is easier to use but very
few. In terms of playing music I want it simple so I use XMMS or
Audacious.  For Winamp users using Audacious or XMMS is going to be almost
no learning curve and that's one of the key things about helping people new
to Linux is to reduce the learning curve without transporting M$ insanity
to Linux. KDE is by far the best desktop for people migrating to Linux from
Windoze. KDE uses the same key strokes so no re-memorizing shortcuts, the
look and feel is easy to grasp even if you've never seen Linux before, the
display is simple but can be stunning with a little modification. The
feature rich environment just says "USE ME I LIKE IT" lol. However we need
to give folks good equivalents and easy choices. Try to avoid inflicting
really bad software on them. New Linux users are used to being dictated
too. There is one and only one way of doing things and if the default sucks
tail pipes they will think Linux sucks tailpipes. Most distros are guilty
of using some really horrible apps as defaults. Something that KDE cannot
help. The distro itself is responsible for that, BUT KDE CAN integrate and
equivalents finder which will help new and even experienced users discover
new software and old standards they never knew about because they just
never needed to do XYZ before.  I'd be happy to work on the project though
my C++ skills have atrophied to nothing. I can still hack out Python code
though. Gambas even better. Shouldn't be too difficult to do something
like
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20070701111340544/Equivalents.html
or
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
Then programatically check to see if that distro and versions repositories
support that software and offer easy options to install what is supported
by repositories.



On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:51 PM, dE . <de.techno at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 12/13/12 23:08, Mayank Jha wrote:
>
> I was thinking that if there could be an application for kde or linux
> distros in general which could be used to put up a query and you could get
> a set of answers pertaining to your queries.
> The source for answering these queries not being one but many, like
> askubuntu.com, askfedora.com, ubuntuforums.com etc.
> More generally what I am talking of is to pool in resources from the net
> and then as a "search engine" of sorts to answer the doubts of a newbie to
> open and free software. It would greatly reduce time for such a person to
> get accustomed to the knowhow of Linux.
> I know that this sounds against mailing list culture, but if we can make
> some mini-search app for FOSS queries I feel it would be welcoming to the
> newcomer.
> Also if someone is willing to mentor me upon this in creating such an app,
> i would gladly be willing to do so.
>
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> It may be too late to answer this, but everyone, including Google came to
> the conclusion that the default Google search is the best for the purpose.
>
> Cause at one time, Google too had search engines for certain specific
> purposes, like for Linux, for government issues etc... but it was also
> filtering out results which had the answer.
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