Tour of MATE Software - kororaproject/kp-documentation GitHub Wiki
Table of Contents
- Tour of MATE Software ("I Need a Program That Does This")
- Office Applications
- Image Editor
- Image Viewers
- PDF Readers
- E-Readers
- RSS Reader
- Scanners
- Multimedia Players
- Multimedia Ripping and Conversion
- Desktop Recording
- Sound and Video Editing
- Internet
- Audiovisual Communication
- Chat Applications
- Torrent Client
- System Applications
Tour of MATE Software ("I Need a Program That Does This")
One of the core aims of the Korora Project is to provide an out-of-box Linux experience that can take care of the average's users daily needs with entirely free software. To save you the trouble of digging through every preinstalled application, we have compiled a list of the prepackaged applications within each version of Korora that fulfill a specific purpose. This will hopefully save you some trouble from immediately downloading more software when the right tool may already be installed.
The MATE Desktop largely uses GNOME applications for its inventory of existing programs. However, as MATE is itself a fork of GNOME 2, MATE maintains several forks of GNOME apps in order to better maintain their aesthetic within the classic GNOME 2/desktop paradigm. These include MATE's own Image Viewer and Document Viewer, based on upstream GNOME programs.
On top of this, there are additional packages added by Korora.
Office Applications
PURPOSE: I Need To Edit Some Documents
- LibreOffice Writer (Document Editor, like Microsoft Word)
- LibreOffice Calc (Spreadsheet editor, like Microsoft Excel)
- LibreOffice Draw (Image and flowchart editor, like Microsoft Visio)
- LibreOffice Impress (Presentation and slide editor, like Microsoft Powerpoint)
- Project Management (plan projects)
- GNote (write short sticky-notes of information)
- Pluma
Image Editor
PURPOSE: I Need to Touch Up Some Photos
- GIMP
- Inkscape (Vector graphics editor)
- Cura LulzBot Edition (3D Printing software)
- MATE Color Selection
Image Viewers
PURPOSE: I Just Want to Look at Some Photos
- Eye of MATE Image Viewer
- Shotwell (Photo Manger)
PDF Readers
- Atril Document Viewer (Fork of Evince)
E-Readers
- FBReader (E-book and Comic Book reader)
- Atril Document Viewer (Fork of Evince)
RSS Reader
Scanners
PURPOSE: I Need to Scan a Document
Multimedia Players
PURPOSE: I Need to Play Some Music or Video
- VLC (Audio and Video player; supports most multimedia formats with no additional codecs)
- Audacious (Audio player)
Multimedia Ripping and Conversion
PURPOSE: I Need to Rip My CD or DVD
- Asunder CD Ripper
- Handbrake (Transcodes CDs, DVDs, and Blurays)
- Sound Converter (Converts audio files to other formats)
- Xfburn (CD Burner)
Desktop Recording
Sound and Video Editing
Internet
Audiovisual Communication
PURPOSE: I Need to Call / Video Conference With Someone