Well here's the continuation of the review of the start menu.
The next menu: Configuration
and the subtopics here...Networking,Boot and Init,Hardware,KDE,Other,Packaging,Printing,KDE Contorl Center,kusbhome,PCLinuxOS Control Center
First the Networking configuration:
Just one entry here the Wlassistant, for wireless configuration. Handy util to have indeed.
Next Boot and Init:
Just one entry here KSysV which I admit I've never used, and have no idea what it does. ;-)
Next Hardware:
Here we have Device Manager,HardDrake,KFloppy,KRandRTray,NVidiaSettings(Yay!),PCLinuxOS Info Tool,Proc Configuration,Redo Lilo,Removable Storage
Next is the standard KDE menu:
The next config menu is all the stuff that doesn't fit the other categories, hence the name "Other" ;-)
In this Menu we have: bab,Change Password,ChBg,IRKick,KCron,KDat,KDE Wallet,KGpg,Kuser,LocaleDrake(System),LocaleDrake(User),Menudrake,Screensaver,User Administration
The next section has the most amazing part of this LiveCD the packaging, and in particular the Synaptics Software Manager. This made upgrading a complete joy, and not an annoyance from which I'll never recover. (Sorry Mandriva, but....)
Packaging:
Here's a screen shot of the Synaptics Software Manager in action:
I can't say how much this utility makes this the best LiveCD distro I've used to date.(Including the much revered Ubuntu, which I found quite dissapointing compare to Knoppix and others)
The rest of the configuration menu is pretty straight forward let's move on to the good stuff: Multimedia
Under Graphics we have:
digiKam - a standard digital camera app - this ones great I use it all the time with my camera
gqcam,GQview,GTKam(Gphoto 2),Kcdlabel,KColorChooser,KColorEdit,KolourPaint,
Kooka - an awesome scanner application,
KPovModeler - so you don't have to make your scenes in a text editor ;-)
Krita,KRuler,
KSnapshot - your looking at output from it ;-)
Kuickshow - a great thumbnail and slideshow viewer
KView,showFoto,
The GIMP - If I have to say anything about this...get out from under your rock! :-D
Thumber,XSane.
Okay onto sound:
We have Amarok,aRTs Builder,aRTs Control Tool,
Audacity - This is an extremely power multi-track audio editor/converter.
Aumix,EasyTAG,Gnormalize,Grip,Juk,Kaboodle,kamix,KAudioCreator,KMid,KMix,KRec,KsCD,Noatun,StreamTuner,TiMidity++,Xmms
Next we move on to Video:
In here we have: k9copy,
Kaffeine - an excellent video player,
KMplayer,
MPlayer - this is big, lots of codecs, DVDs, XVid,DivX,Quicktime, you name it!!!
RealPlayer - meh.
TVtime,VLC Gui media player,xine - a classic
Next time we'll look at the included Networking apps.
Until then-NT
