…to use a hopefully somewhat generic term; or whatever you call that thing that sits at the edge of your screen and has icons for stuff that you launch a lot? Not the menu(s), the single-click launches. Or if you roll that way, what do you have hotkeys for?
Here’s mine:
- Firefox – been using it since ~2004 (when it changed name from Firebird)
- Evolution – not a lot of thought in this; it’s Ubuntu’s standard, and it does the job
- Pidgin – I used it when it was called Gaim
- Liferea – Internet news hasn’t been the same since I started with the feeds
- Emacs – I don’t type well enough to use vi (and I use SLIME + SBCL)
- Eclipse – with CDT plugins
- KDevelop – an alternative to Eclipse, a bit nicer for automake stuff
- RapidSVN – only just realised it’s a rabbit with an eyepatch! I thought it was some sort of comet in space…
- gnome-terminal – because one always needs a command line
- Amarok – pretty near best-in-class for organising & playing music
- Tomboy – for the to-do lists which never shrink…
Firefox (I use Google Reader for feeds and Gmail for mail), some IM app (usually Pidgin; Psi on my XO-1), Emacs (for programming, ERC and GNUS), a terminal and that’s about it.
Firefox, Thunderbird for mail, Rhythmbox for the music, Krusader for the file browsing a shortcut for a xmodmap script for mapping capslock to escape (I’m a vim user) and a shortcut for putting the laptop into standby. I also have a drawer (I use Gnome) which holds some IM applications).
Alt Gr + F1 launches xterm, but I often find myself launching it from Krusader (so the current directory matches my current project)