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Clean up recommended applications
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RESOLVED: FIXED
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wiki.xfce.org
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General

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Description Pepijn de Vos 2014-02-02 16:38:49 CET
There is so much stuff in there that it does not actually help recommend me any good software.

I was trying to find a good email client, but the list currently contains 5 applications of which at least Postler is no longer maintained. What kind of recommendation is that?

Browsers? 5, of which 3 are rather obscure IMO. Not something I would recommend personally.

Irc clients? 1... XChat is okay but dead, Hexchat is a preferable fork. No other options?

Media players? dozens.
Image viewers? dozens.
Text editors? dozens.

My suggestion would be to move a lot of applications to a secondary page like command line tools, so that this page might be more useful for new users looking for good, simple, lightweight software.
Comment 1 Skunnyk editbugs 2017-05-12 16:50:02 CEST
Now https://wiki.xfce.org/recommendedapps point to alternativeto.net so no more infinite list in the wiki.

Bug #10665

Reported by:
Pepijn de Vos
Reported on: 2014-02-02
Last modified on: 2017-05-12

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Assignee:
Mike Massonnet
CC List:
1 user

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