Re: [PLUG] Mon Oct 21 - PLUG West - "Where's my Notepad? Transitioning to Desktop Linux" by Walt Mankowski (7pm at ATS)

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

That's good to know.  I'd never have gotten that out of the package 
summary or description.

I've tried to use Libre/Open Office, but I think I failed.  I have used 
this one, but it's *extremely* clunky and primitive.  It worked though:
* flpsed - WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor


On 10/23/19 4:59 PM, Steven Grunza wrote:
> I have found xournal ( http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ ; ) to be a useful 
> tool.  It can read PDF files and allow either typing, 'mousing', or pen 
> edits to be made on top of the PDF document.  The result can be saved 
> with the layers separated.  A combined-layer PDF can be created for 
> returning the edited PDF.  For forms that do not have editing enabled 
> (like all those beginning of year school forms) I use xournal to fill 
> them out and then the next year just need to edit the date and rebuild 
> the PDF output.
>
> This might be a more useful app to those of us with TabletPC's 
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC) than other people 
> but it still works well for me for marking up PDF's on my company laptop 
> that doesn't have pen input.
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 4:30 PM JP Vossen via plug 
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org <mailto:plug@lists.phillylinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the interesting discussion Walt.
>
>     Tools that came up that I recall are:
>
>     * Geany & plugins as a light-weight IDE
>
>     * Zim, a "desktop wiki" for notes (Python3)
>              Just moved to Python3 so a bit buggy but under active dev.
>
>     * Meld, an awesome graphical 1,2,3-way diff & editing tool (Python)
>
>     * LibreOffice Draw for simple diagrams
>     * Dia, the Gnome diagram editor
>
>     * xul-ext-lightning - Calendar Extension for Thunderbird
>              Also a to-do list, but it's only in Thunderbird as noted
>
>     Also try the GUI package manager, just to see what's in there.  Dia is
>     the first thing that came up with I searched my Mint-18 "Software
>     Manager" for "diagram".  Huh, Sublime-text and Atom are both in there
>     too, they may be worth a look.
>
>     Super useful tool we forgot to talk about:
>
>     * xsel - command-line tool to access X clipboard and selection buffers
>              alias put-clip='xsel -bi'
>              alias get-clip='xsel -b'
>
>
>     I didn't talk about ROXTerm, which is the term emulator I love, because
>     it got dropped from Ubuntu 19.04 and is a PITA to install.  :-(
>
>     And we didn't talk about Evolution, which is the Outlook
>     competitor.  It
>     used to REALLY suck, but it has sucked less each time I've looked at it
>     over the years.  I haven't looked since 2015 or so, so it might be
>     better.  But that only matters if you are allowed to use it, and you
>     more-or-less like Outlook...  The other GUI alternative is
>     Thunderbird +
>     Lightning, as above.
>
>     I'll talk about multiple in-line revision control in a separate thread.
>
>
>     On 10/21/19 9:26 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug-announce wrote:
>      > This month, PLUG West welcomes Walt Mankowski, who will be
>      > giving a talk entitled "Where's my Notepad? Transitioning to
>     Desktop Linux".
>      >
>      >    I recently started a new job and my desktop is running Ubuntu.
>     I've
>      >    been using Linux for over 20 years, but this is the first time my
>      >    work machine is running Linux. It's been about a week now and
>     while
>      >    it's mostly great, there are a few things I'm missing. I'd like to
>      >    lead an informal discussion on finding open source apps to replace
>      >    things I've grown accustomed to on macOS and Windows.
>      >
>      >    Is 2019 the Year of Linux On the Desktop?
>     ...
Later,
JP
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