Top 10 Must Have Apps/Widgets

[Xplorer4x4]

James, Steve, thanks for the info. I am not really bothered by the Calender bugs. I use Google calendar for the rare time I need to set reminders. All I need for cloud storage, is well storage. I mostly use it for small tasks like if I download an android apk on my desktop and need to get it to my phone, keepass database, and other small things, but I do still want it to be secure.

Sent from my DROID2 Global

[SteveRiley]

Revisiting this thread briefly, Steve, which "owncloud" are you referring to www.owncloud.org or www.owncloud.com?

I've tried OwnCloud 3.0.0, 3.0.2, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.4, and 4.0.6 from owncloud.org. While it has shown continual improvement, it still exhibits a bit of fragility at times. In 4.0.4, repeating calendar entries sometimes appear to span multiple days when viewed via the web interface, but the underlying data doesn't have any problems, and the same calendar entries appear fine in KOrganizer and on my phone. In 4.0.6, the browser window refreshes twice after each login. These are just a couple oddities.

I think most OC development occurs on CentOS, so I wonder whether some of the kinks have to do with minor differences in Apache and PHP on Ubuntu. I'm not sure, really. I hope verison 5 bumps up the reliability, because I'd really like to to use this thing.

[james147]

Revisiting this thread briefly, Steve, which "owncloud" are you referring to www.owncloud.org or www.owncloud.com?

www.owncloud.com is the cermercial side of www.owncloud.org so you can download it from .org and host it your self, or buy support for it from .com (both the sites also link to each other).

[Xplorer4x4]

Revisiting this thread briefly, Steve, which "owncloud" are you referring to www.owncloud.org or www.owncloud.com?

[dtr]

I have to say that there are many more than 10 additional apps/widgets that I must install because I use them regularly, and because my partner and a couple of friends also use my desktop regularly (of course with their own user/or guest accounts). Here are the top ones for me:

Multimedia & Graphics
cheese, clementine, devede, digikam, gimp, kaffeine, vlc

Office & Internet
amsn, firefox, google-chrome, kompozer, kontact, krecipes, libreoffice, tellico, thunderbird,

System & Desktop
firestarter, hplip-gui & xsane, lm-sensors, mysql workbench, nvidia, smooth-tasks, synaptic, virtualbox, wine

I also install many debug packages and the packages to build from source (build-essentials, cmake, etc.) for various apps because I love trying out the latest stable/beta/alpha versions of most software

[kubicle]

have the python modules been split from ufw package recently

Answering myself, in "ufw" version 0.32 python2 modules were split to "python-ufw" package

[K-Project]

That's fine if you only need basic deny incoming firewall (although the default incoming policy is deny so 'sudo ufw default deny' is somewhat redundant).

However, the default firewall won't do if you want to run servers on your host (file and printer sharing and ssh connections, for example, are not uncommon on linux machines). Of course you don't need a GUI module to set up your firewall (you can do that on the cli), the GUI module just makes rule handling easier...and the profiles are handy if you need to allow some traffic occasionally, or need different rules for workplace/open wlan hotspots etc.

Of course. I am from the olden days, when you just threw up a firewall and felt better. So many variables nowadays of course.

[kubicle]

For the firewall discussion, I usually just sudo ufw status then sudo ufw enable and then sudo ufw default deny. No need to add the GUI for it, but I suppose it is useful if you need to use stuff like bittorrent and whatnot. I've always been a bit wary of bittorrent and never used it, so I just have the firewall ON. Silly I suppose.

That's fine if you only need basic deny incoming firewall (although the default incoming policy is deny so 'sudo ufw default deny' is somewhat redundant).

However, the default firewall won't do if you want to run servers on your host (file and printer sharing and ssh connections, for example, are not uncommon on linux machines...and services like these are usually the reason why people set up a firewall in the first place...a firewall is of relatively little use if you don't have any services listening for outside connections).

Of course you don't need a GUI module to set up your firewall (you can do that on the cli), the GUI module just makes rule handling easier...and the profiles are handy if you need to allow some traffic occasionally, or need different rules for workplace/open wlan hotspots etc.

[K-Project]

For the firewall discussion, I usually just sudo ufw status then sudo ufw enable and then sudo ufw default deny. No need to add the GUI for it, but I suppose it is useful if you need to use stuff like bittorrent and whatnot. I've always been a bit wary of bittorrent and never used it, so I just have the firewall ON. Silly I suppose.

[kubicle]

I'll take a quick look at it to see if it's something simple.

Looks like in my case the problems with the kcm resulted from missing the ufw python modules (package "python-ufw") although I don't recall removing them at any point (have the python modules been split from ufw package recently?).

After installing the modules (before the kcm helper was complaining about missing ufw modules) the kcm seems to be working like it used to (and as advertised)

[kubicle]

Update: according to ScottK, the original maintainer of the KCM had dropped out of Kubuntu development. And my read through the comments on KDE-Apps indicates that perhaps there was an attempt to update it, followed by another stall. Thus, Snowhog's suggestion of gufw appears to be the way to go.

Last I checked, gufw was rather limited compared to the kcm, but if it works better you are probably right (does gufw work?).

The kcm has worked well for me previously, but you are right...it seems dysfunctional at the moment (I recall there have been some changes to ufw this cycle and if the kcm is currently unmaintained that could explain it). I'll take a quick look at it to see if it's something simple.

[dequire]

Just an observation about communication: It's amazing that a simple question can arise whereby so much good information, learning can arise from just asking a simple question. I was going to type several messages back about getting the thread back on topic as it seemed at the time to me to be somewhat derailed. I stand corrected and am glad that I did not rush to react, as is so common via the Internets these days.

[sumski]

Sumski: given how much many of us have come to appreciate the work you're doing with KDE Goodies, might we encourage you to add this to your PPA? Meanwhile, I'll check in with the folks at kubuntu-devel to find out why this KCM was dropped after Maverick.

Count me in

[capt-zero]

Okay, gentlemen. I appreciate all of your input. I made a large misunderstanding of just what it was that Steve was referring to and then, as is my wont, hopped right into it without the tools or knowledge to make proper use of it. I think I'll tackle this problem tomorrow and see if I can make it work. I apologize for having hijacked this thread for my issues, instead of it's original intended subject.

thanx,
capt-zero

[SteveRiley]

Meanwhile, I'll check in with the folks at kubuntu-devel to find out why this KCM was dropped after Maverick.

Update: according to ScottK, the original maintainer of the KCM had dropped out of Kubuntu development. And my read through the comments on KDE-Apps indicates that perhaps there was an attempt to update it, followed by another stall. Thus, Snowhog's suggestion of gufw appears to be the way to go.