Help with finding Linux apps for editing HTML/Movies/Images

[James Dugger]

Keith,  As a LAMP developer using Linux I am in the same boat.  My tool set
is Gimp for images, I don't edit video myself but have it prepared per the
site specs by others.  As far as editors, I moved away from WYSIWYG editors
in favor of Sublime Text for simple stuff and PHPStorm (not FOSS) for my
full IDE.  Netbeans is the closet thing to PHPStorm that I have used.  I've
tried Geany, Gedit, Bluefish, Netbeans, Eclipse, Komodo Edit and IDE, and
prefer to spend the $99 for the PHPStorm License.  It is java based and
works on all platforms.

With web development moving to mobile first responsive design, web sites
are moving away from simple CSS and implementing SCSS/SASS, more Javascript
(jQuery frontend, NODE.js backend), and version control (VCS) like Git. You
quickly realize that editors like Dreamweaver just don't have the breadth
of built-in tools to help with your workflow.

Browser developer tools such as Firebug by Mozilla, and Chorme's Developer
Tools offer more inspection tools than Dreamweaver (or Bluefish) along with
built in debuggers for JavaScript that let you set breakpoints, step in,
through, and out of js functions to inspect variables, array key value
pairs etc. Both of these browsers will even reference the SCSS file that
generated the CSS.  As far as IE load Windows with IE in a VM and test it
there or get an account with a multi-browser testing site in the cloud.

Maybe some of these other WYSIWYG editors may be fine for smaller projects
(I still prefer Sublime Text for this).  But for the enterprise sites
(CMS-based 150k plus lines of code) I work on I need an IDE that can
catalogue Ruby, JavaScript, SCSS, PHP, and SQL at a minimum. And a good IDE
can inspect, create, and edit your SQL databases, transpile SCSS on the
fly, bring up your LAMP server (Vagrant), and manage your VCS.  Netbeans
(IMHO) is the full FOSS IDE that is the easiest to install and configure
and use out of the box.

Hope this perspective helps.



On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can speak very well of Darktable for a lightroom style Photo
> post-processing tool. It is very capable.
>
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> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-23 13:25, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>>
>>> 1) Graphics editor
>>>
>>
>> gimp is the most capable image editor available for Linux AFAIK.  There
>> are other image editors, but I don't think I've used any of them in the
>> last 15 years.  The problem that a lot of people seem to have with gimp is
>> that it doesn't work exactly like photoshop.  If gimp doesn't work for you,
>> you might want to describe why it doesn't work, and then people could
>> suggest other programs.  I had to Read The Fine Manual before I could use
>> gimp to do anything at all....
>>
>>  2) Movie editor for YouTube style stuff
>>>
>>
>> Don't know; I don't work with movies very much.
>>
>>  3) (X)HTML editor - would like a wysiwyg editor where I can look at
>>> the code and switch views so I can see what the HTML/CSS might look in
>>> a browser.
>>>
>>
>> Since IE renders HTML differently from Safari, which renders HTML
>> differently from Firefox, I don't know that WYSIWYG is really *possible* in
>> this context.  People have tried--I remember the "bluefish" project at the
>> very least, and there might be a fork of Mozilla Composer somewhere out
>> there.
>>
>> What I've usually done here is set up apache running on localhost, put
>> the HTML files into /home/me/public_html/somewhere/ (if UserDir is
>> enabled), then point my browser at http://localhost/~me/somewhere/ .
>>  Then I point my text editor at ~/public_html/somewhere/ , make changes,
>> save the changed files, and push "reload" in the browser.  This is probably
>> not what you really want to do, but it'll show you *exactly* what it'd look
>> like in the browser.
>>
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