What I do right after installing kubuntu

Ok, so this was my second time installing kubuntu ( I started with Gutsy and moved on to Hardy).
I decided to fully reinstall, because I wanted a fresh start (I like to mess with the system configuration a lot).

Ok, so the first thing I install is everybody's favorite browser, firefox. This time around I installed firefox 3 beta5 (from the repositories). I am just sad because it looks so good with the native look&feel in windows and in mac, but in linux it falls short and by default just looks ... old. I wish there was a plugin to integrate it with kde (or gnome, for those using it). This would just make sense (tm).

Another application i'm taking for a test drive is mozilla's prism. This is nothing more than a lightweight version of firefox with

I personally like using google reader in a prism but nothing beats remember the milk's igoogle gadget in a prism.
It looks something like this:

(yes, I smudged my todos in the image, and why are you trying to read them ?)

Very minimalistic, portable and efficient way of keeping my todo list close by.

At this point I realize gvim isn't installed yet ... my configuration looks like this:
I'm using the oceandeep colorscheme, and I can't live without these plugins: taglist, bufexplorer, alternate buffers (quickly switch between .h and .cpp for example) and recently, project (this one is not easy to get the hang of, but is very usefull).

The next application I install is usually amarok. For those who don't know, it is linux's best (non lightweight) music player. If you haven't already, you should try it. If you want to migrate an old instalation, have a look at one of my previous posts.
If you use amarok, you should take a look at amarokfs (unfurtunatelly it is not in the main ubuntu repositories yet).
I use musicbrainz picard to tag the mp3s I get (I also use the cover plugin, which I strongly recommend)

Pidgin, the multi protocol instant messenger (I personally use AIM, ICQ, MSN and gTalk) comes next.

Subversion, and my favorite frontend, kdesubversion are a must. I have keept my homedir under source control for about a year now and haven't regretted it a bit. Not everything is checked in, the Desktop is kept off, as a place to keep stuff temporarily. I was inspired to do this by this post. I also keep some important system configuration files in there, and trust me, this can really come in handy!

I also use gnucash, so this comes next. It is a great way to know where the hell my money went when my account reaches rock bottom :(

For my picture albums I use digikam, and I always install the kipi-plugins, that allow me to do batch resizing and other fun stuff with my pictures.
Digikam is quickly growing into a respectable application, that rivals paid alternatives ...

As far as games go, nothing beats good old MAME, or in ubuntu's case, sdlmame (the sdl fork that is still actively maintained and kept up to date with the main fork).

Go Chun-Li, go!

Some utilities i've come to depend on are:
Filelight - this is a great way to see where you are spending all of that hard drive space without having to manually look around everywhere. For my "big" partition, it looks something like this (the labels change automatically to reflect what is under your mouse):

Now now ... trying to read my personal stuff again ?

And a "better" top, htop (because it is makes it a lot easier to see what is hapenning)

yes, I have four cores (and I'm proud of it)

The gimp also usually finds it way into my pc ...
Ktorrent is a great torrent client.

Prelink and preload are always here to speed up my system (see my post "two ways to speed up ubuntu" for more info on these).

On the development front, I usually install:
bjam (boost jam, used by boost-build)
boost-build (a great portable build system)
doxygen (generate documentation based on the source code)
graphviz (used by doxygen for generating graphs)
And some boost c++ libraries I am using...

Wow, that was a lot (and some weirder, less useful stuff was left out...), but anyway, enjoy ;)