June turned out to be a productive month. Firefox 3 came out, Wine finally hit 1.0, and yours truly got Xorg up and running on his laptop.
Installed KDE, set up Russian and Ukrainian localization. Funny side note — I was going to write in Russian, but never bothered adding the Russian keyboard layout (I don’t like having three languages on the computer). Flash works in FF, though only version 7, because version 9 just showed empty squares for some reason. And version 7 doesn’t work everywhere. Damn :/ After all, it’s a plain truth that a user works not with the operating system but with applications, so they don’t really care which OS is running underneath. Firefox and Last.fm player are the same as before — the search for other software continues. In order, here’s what I’d like to have:
ICQ client. I want something pretty, with bells and whistles. LICQ didn’t appeal to me — maybe I just don’t know how to set it up properly.
RDP client. With a top bar so you can minimize it, like mstsc. Because I couldn’t figure out how to minimize rdesktop.
I really want the special buttons on the laptop to work — monitor brightness control, volume. The standard acpi_asus module doesn’t support my X51RL :(
Office suite. OpenOffice or MSOffice under Wine?
Visio. How can I live without it?
While writing this, I realized I need an automatic keyboard layout switcher. Already tried installing XneuralSwitcher, but something didn’t work. Again, maybe my hands are just crooked.
A disc burner.
A Radmin client. Or the alternative — install a VNC server on 10 machines.
I saw a cool tool on Frenzy — it draws system stats on the desktop: free disk space, memory. I even remembered its name, I’ll check at home. I want it and want to configure it properly.
Hotkeys. In Windows I had everything on hotkeys — Winamp, half the programs. I want the same here.
The list will be updated and edited as I make progress.