====== Suggested Applications ======

This page contains various suggested applications for the Xfce desktop environment.
These applications do not require heavy dependencies and/or fit in the Xfce philosophy to be light on memory usage.


===== System Applications =====

==== Terminal ====
  * Description: Vte based/gtk+-2 lightweight X-terminal
  * Website: http://www.os-cillation.com
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**



==== Gmrun ====
  * Description: CLI-like GTK+2 application launcher with tab completion
  * Website: http://www.bazon.net/mishoo/gmrun.epl

==== HardInfo ====
  * Description: GTK+2 System information and benchmark tool
  * Website: http://hardinfo.berlios.de/HomePage

==== SLiM ====
  * Description: Desktop-independent graphical login manager for X11
  * Website: http://slim.berlios.de



===== Office Applications =====


==== Abiword ====
  * Description: A full-featured, yet light and fast word processor
  * Website: http://www.abisource.com
  * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them //

==== TeXmacs ====
  * Description: A more-featured text/book writer with hypertext features and an integrated browser mode
  * Website: http://www.texmacs.org
  * Remarks: Though the name tells it, none of TeX or Emacs is required to get it compiled and running. TeXmacs is self-contained but needs guile-gtk for the interface. TeXmacs is in the overworks, and much of the internas (switching to cairo, etc.) and interface will change in the near future.


==== Epdfview ====
  * Description: A free lightweight PDF document viewer
  * Website:  http://www.emma-soft.com/projects/epdfview/



==== Gnumeric ====
  * Description: Spreadsheet application
  * Website: http://www.gnumeric.org
  * Remarks: //Can pull *some* gnome dependencies (printing is based on libgnomeprint and mandatory, for example.) Compile yourself to avoid them //


==== LyX ====
  * Description: Document Processor (WYSIWYM frontend to LaTeX)
  * Website: http://www.lyx.org/
 

==== Xpdf ====
  * Description: A PDF viewer for X11
  * Website: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf


==== Zim ====
  * Description: A desktop wiki and outliner
  * Website: http://zim-wiki.org/
  * Remarks: //Perl application//

==== Wiki On A Stick ====
  * Description: Self-contained desktop wiki
  * Website: http://stickwiki.sourceforge.net/
  * Self-modifying XHTML file 

===== Network Applications =====






==== Sylpheed ====
  * Description: Slim but fully featured, GTK+ 2.x based Email Client (and News Reader)
  * Website: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en
  * Remarks: Can support gnome, if wished

==== Claws Mail ====
  * Description: Email Client, News Reader, Feed Reader, Calendar ...
  * Website: http://www.claws-mail.org
  * Remarks: Formerly known as Sylpheed Claws, can publish calendar data to [[http://www.xfce.org/projects/orage/|Orage]].



==== Liferea ====
  * Description: A lightweight GTK+ feed reader
  * Website: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/
==== Linkage ====
  * Description: Lightweight GTK+ Bittorrent client
  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/linkage/
  * Remarks: written in C++ using libgtkmm and libtorrent

==== Deluge ====
  * Description: Full-featured, GTK+ native Bittorrent client
  * Website: http://deluge-torrent.org
  * Remarks: //python application//


==== Transmission ====
  * Description: Lightweight Bittorrent client which makes it very attractive to fetch two or three torrents
  * Website: http://www.transmissionbt.com



==== Pidgin ====
  * Description: An instant messenger client for several protocols
  * Website: http://pidgin.im
  * Remarks: Formerly known as Gaim.

==== gFTP ====
  * Description: Graphical FTP client
  * Website: http://www.gftp.org

==== Grsync ====
  * Description: A GUI for rsync
  * Website: http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/

==== IcQnD ====
  * Description: GTK+ 2 GUI for the Licq Instant Messenger
  * Website: http://icqnd.sourceforge.net

==== Kazehakase ====
  * Description: A GTK+ web browser based on the Gecko engine
  * Website: http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp

==== Midori ====
  * Description: A lightweight web browser based on WebKit
  * Website: http://www.twotoasts.de
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== pyNeighborhood ====
  * Description: A smbfs(samba) frontend, a GTK+ 2 rewrite of LinNeighborhood.
  * Website: http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net
  * Remarks: //python application//

==== Xchat ====
  * Description: A GTK+-2 based IRC client
  * Website: http://www.xchat.org


===== Multimedia Applications =====


==== Xfmedia ====
  * Description: The Xfce media player
  * Website: http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfmedia
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== Xfmpc ====
  * Description: Graphical GTK+ MPD client (Music Player Daemon)
  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfmpc
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== Abraca ====
  * Description: GTK+ XMMS2 client
  * Website: http://abraca.xmms.se/


==== Asunder ====
  * Description: A simple GTK+-2 CD ripper and encoder
  * Website: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/

==== Audacious ====
  * Description: A fork and rewrite of Beep Media Player
  * Website: http://audacious-media-player.org

==== Aqualung ====
  * Description: Cross-platform music player with gapless playback & LADSPA plugins
  * Website: http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

==== Bmpx ====
  * Description: The next-generation Beep Media Player
  * Website: http://bmpx.backtrace.info/

==== EasyTAG ====
  * Description: GTK+ utility for editing MP2, MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg and other media tags
  * Website: http://easytag.sourceforge.net

==== Consonance Music Manager ====
  * Description: A lightweight GTK+ music manager (C, Gtk+, and sqlite.. !-)
  * Screenshots: http://consonance.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
  * Website: http://consonance.sourceforge.net/

==== Exaile ====
  * Description: GTK+ media player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok
  * Website: http://www.exaile.org/
  * Remarks: //python application//

==== Gaupol ====
  * Description: Editor for text-based subtitle files
  * Website: http://home.gna.org/gaupol/

==== Gimmix ====
  * Description: GTK+ MPD client
  * Website: http://gimmix.berlios.de

==== Gpodder ====
  * Description: Podcast manager that syncs with portable audio devices 
  * Website: http://gpodder.berlios.de
  * Remarks: //python application//


==== Goggles Music Manager ====
  * Description: Light weight music manager and player. 
  * Website: http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
  * Remarks: //Based on the FOX toolkit, xine for audio and sqlite3 as the database backend.//

==== Graveman! ====
  * Description: Graveman! is a GTK+ frontend for cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, sox, flac, dvd+rw-format/dvd+rw-tools and cdrdao 

  * Website: http://graveman.tuxfamily.org


==== gxine ====
  * Description: GTK+ media player
  * Website: http://xinehq.de

==== Quod Libet ====
  * Description: GTK+ audio only player
  * Website: http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet
  * Remarks: //python application//

==== Sonata ====
  * Description: Elegant GTK+ MPD client
  * Website: http://sonata.berlios.de
  * Remarks: //python application//


==== Tagtool ====
  * Description: A program to edit ID3 tags
  * Website: http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/

==== Thoggen ====
  * Description: Simple and beautiful DVD ripping based on GStreamer and GTK+
  * Website: http://thoggen.net/


==== VLC media player ====
  * Description: A media player supporting a large number of multimedia formats
  * Website: http://www.videolan.org





===== Graphic/Photo Applications =====

==== Ristretto ====
  * Description: Image viewer
  * Website: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== Comix ====
  * Description: (archived) Image viewer
  * Website: http://comix.sourceforge.net/index.html

==== Dia ====
  * Description: A diagramming tool
  * Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia

==== Gcolor2 ====
  * Description: GTK+2 Color Selector
  * Website: http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/

==== Gimmage ====
  * Description: Minimalistic image viewer
  * Website: http://gimmage.berlios.de

==== Gimp ====
  * Description: GNU Image Manipulation Program
  * Website: http://www.gimp.org

==== GQview ====
  * Description: An image browser for X
  * Website: http://gqview.sourceforge.net

==== Inkscape ====
  * Description: Full featured open source SVG editor
  * Website: http://www.inkscape.org


==== Mirage ====
  * Description: Image viewer and editor
  * Website: http://mirageiv.berlios.de/
  * Remarks: //python application//


===== Development Applications =====

==== Geany ====
  * Description: Fast and lightweight IDE
  * Website: http://geany.uvena.de



==== Medit ====
  * Description: Programming text editor
  * Website: http://mooedit.sourceforge.net

==== Meld ====
  * Description: Graphical diff and merge tool
  * Website: http://meld.sourceforge.net/

==== Oxalis ====
  * Description: Quick HTML pages creation with templates
  * Website: http://sergejx.mysteria.cz/oxalis/

==== SciTE ====
  * Description: A free GTK+-based source code editor
  * Website: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html




==== vim/gvim ====
  * Description: Versatile editor/IDE
  * Website:  http://vim.sf.net


===== Accessories =====

==== Mousepad ====
  * Description: Lighweight xfce text editor
  * Website: http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== Squeeze ====
  * Description: An archive manager for Xfce
  * Website: http://squeeze.xfce.org
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== Xarchiver ====
  * Description: Simple archive manager
  * Website: http://xarchiver.xfce.org
  * Remarks: **Xfce project**

==== catfish ====
  * Description: GTK+2 desktop search frontend
  * Website: http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=catfish
  * Remarks: //python application//
==== emelFM2 ====
  * Description: An "orthodox" two-pane file manager
  * Website: http://emelfm2.net/

==== Galculator ====
  * Description: GTK+ based calculator
  * Website: http://galculator.sourceforge.net

==== GPeriodic ====
  * Description: Comprehensive periodic table of elements
  * Website: http://gperiodic.seul.org/


==== gfa ====
  * Description: Small and fast address book
  * Website: http://gfa.sourceforge.net

==== OpenDict ====
  * Description: Computer dictionary for several dictionary formats
  * Website: http://opendict.idiles.com
  * Remarks: //wxPython application//

==== Qalculate! ====
  * Description: Multi-purpose desktop calculator
  * Website: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/


==== R Commander ====
  * Description: A basic-statistics GUI for the R programming language, based on the tcltk toolkit
  * Website: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/
  * Remarks: //On a general basis, to be installed from within R//

==== Tasks ====
  * Description: simple To Do list application
  * Website: http://pimlico-project.org/tasks.html