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First entry: --[[User:Apos|Apos]] 22:09, 25 June 2008 (CEST)
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== Introduction ==
This article is the summation in my experiences with the linux desktop in '''real world office work'''. None of the existing linux distributions come with all these settings preinstalled for a lot of good reasons. Each has it's own philosophhy or simply licence restrictions. I don't like to go into detail here.

This article is bound to the '''[http://www.gnome.org gnome desktop]''' for several reasons:
* Completely written for free use ''and'' development under the GPL without any restrictions for both: development platform and development community
* Very good [http://library.gnome.org/ documentation]
* Commonly and widely used as standard desktop on different linux/unix/solaris platforms
* Continuous and reasonable development - not bleeding edge - but with a major sin for keeping stability and backwards compatibility
* Project with one of the first ''usability guidelines for desktop usage'' that apply to the linux desktop, the [http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/ HIG (Human Interface Guidelines)]

Other '''major programs''' that are described are
* The ''firefox'' webbrowser
* ''Openoffice''
* The ''CUPS'' linux printing system
* ''Evolution'' Mail and Taskmanager
* ''Exaille'' Musikmanager
* Multimedia settings

= Gnome =
This section recommends the usage of this settings for gnome 2.22 and above.
All settings in gnome can easily be read out and set via the ''gconf'' program. All settings are stored in an xml based file hierarchy with can - but should not be - edited by hand. Either the ''gconf'' commmand or the graphical ''gconf-editor'' should be used to alter the settings. We will see that this can be very handy using a batch file.

== Nautilus ==
* View settings for ''listview'' and ''iconview''
* Listview as default
* Document folders hierarchy
* ACL's

== Gnome-panel ==
* Large bottom menu

== Gnome-power-manager ==
=== Desktop ===
=== Notebook ===

== Multimedia and other default programs ==
=== Smplayer ===
Mplayer is one of the best and commonly used multimedia apps for linux/unix. Despite there exist a lot of user interfaces for ''mplayer'', not much of them are teally useful. A very good an feature rich user interface for mplayer is the ''smplayer''. Install it and make it the default.

=== Adobes Acrobat Reader ===
The default PDF reader in the gnome desktop enviroment is evince. There are several severe problems with evince specially with printing. If you experience these problems, then install Adobes reader and make it the default program for PDF files:

= Firefox =
== mplayer ==
If you experience problems with playing multimedia files within firefox, then install mplayer-plugin instead of the totem-plugin.

== Behaviour ==
* Alter the behaviour of saving files to "save as ..."
* Alter the usage of the default PDF reader to acroread (importand for official documents)

= Power management =
* pm-utils

= Openoffice =
== Settings ==
* autosave 3 minutes
* always make backup
* database - see extra article

= CUPS =

= Evolution =

= Multimedia settings =
== Exaille ==
Use for music, internet radio and podcast settings
== Adobe flash ==

== Mythtv ==
Use for scheduling, watching,recording and archiving tv and videos.