This book is a work in progress. The completed chapters have links.

Provisional outline:

Audio

• Amarok
• Rhythmbox

Browsing

• Firefox
• Epiphany
• Konqueror

Watching videos

• Totem
• Kaffeine
• VLC (Note to self: not installed by default)
• Use ideas from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/media_players

Email

• Thunderbird (Note to self: not installed by default)
• Evolution
• KMail

Photos

• Digikam (Photo Management Tool for KDE)
• F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)

Phones

• Ekiga
• Twinkle (to be used from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/twinkle_my_favorite_sip_program) (Note to self: not installed by default)

Instant messanging

• Kopete (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/kopete_kde_instant_messenger)
• Pidgin (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/pidgin)

Text editors

• Kate
• Gedit (using http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/gedit_powerful_underrated_text_editor_everybody)

Word processing

• OpenOffice Word Processing
• Abiword (Note to self: not installed by default)
• KWord (Note to self: not installed by default)

Spreadsheets

• OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet
• Gnumeric
• KSpread (Note to self: not installed by default)

Diagrams and presentations

• OpenOffice Impress
• KPresenter (Note to self: not installed by default)
• Dia OR something else

Graphics

• Gimp
• Krita (Note to self: not installed by default)
• Inkscape (Note to self: not installed by default)
• PAINTING APP (kolourpaint, xpaint, gpaint, mtpaint)

Desktop publishing

• Scribus (Note to self: not installed by default)

Web publishing

• Bluefish (Note to self: not installed by default)
• Quanta Plus (Note to self: not installed by default)

Database

• OpenOffice Database
• Kexi (Note to self: not installed by default)