Other Internet Applications

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In addition to the programs I’ve already discussed, there are many other Internet applications included in your Fedora distribution. You have the Konqueror Web browser, which is useful if you want to save Web pages as PDF files, and, as I will discuss in Chapter 8, yet another Web browser called Epiphany. However, there are other applications included for different Internet tasks, and I will briefly mention a few of these now.

Dictionary

While not usually thought of as an Internet application, the GNOME Dictionary is in fact just that. To open it, in the Main menu select Accessories > Dictionary. Type a word in the Dictionary input box, click the Look Up Word button, and the dictionary will search a variety of online databases and then provide a definition for that word (see Figure 4-17).

Figure 4-17: Looking up words with the GNOME Dictionary

gFTP

If you do a lot of downloading from the Internet via File Transfer Protocol (FTP), then the GNOME application gFTP is what you will be using. If you are familiar with FTP applications already, you should feel right at home with the very traditional layout of gFTP (see Figure 4-18 on the following page). You can run gFTP by going to the Main menu and selecting Internet > More Internet Applications > gFTP.

Figure 4-18: Using gFTP to download via FTP

X-Chat

Finally, chat-room lovers need not despair; Fedora Core comes with the chat client X-Chat (see Figure 4-19). X-Chat is a very robust and highly customizable piece of software that should be readily usable by those who have used similar software under different operating systems. You can run X-Chat by going to the Main menu and selecting Internet > More Internet Applications > IRC Client.

Figure 4-19: Chatting with X-Chat

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