On 1/11/07, Steven Garrity <stevelist@silverorange.com> wrote:
A few quite thoughts on the <Office> category:

As a default, I'd like to see *either* OpenOffice.org, or the equivalent
Gnome apps (Abiword, Gnumeric, etc). Since the OpenDocument format is
doing so well, I'd like to see Fedora (as a prominent) distribution have
strong support for it. Hence, I think OpenOffice.org is the best choice
(for now).

+1 for OpenOffice.org, lets promote ODF as much as we can.

Gobby - It's very cool, but it is another text editor (albeit one with a
significant twist). I think collaborative editing would be worth
included as plugins to Gedit or AbiWord, but I'm not sure it justifies
another text editor.

I think gobby is something I'd really like to start playing with.  Its not quite there yet, but it needs more people using it to get it where it needs to be.

On the text editor front, I'd really like to see at least emacs-nox included in the same way that vim-minimal is (or at least in base).  I don't suggest including the graphical bits but its a real pain falling back to vim when X doesn't start.  It seems like a pretty obvious package to include since it is one of the most popular text editors available.

Also, I'd suggest Rhythmbox as the choice of music player - it's solid
and has been improving a lot in recent releases.

Maybe I should take another look into Rhythmbox.  Its been a while since it let me down last.  People have been talking it up recently so I'll have to give it another chance.

Russell