SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click.

After years of using proprietary operating systems, switching to something new can be a difficult task. One of the hardest things is finding new programs to replace all of the old applications you used to use, especially when there is a wealth of different options.

Comix is a comic book reader that doubles as a pretty useful generic image viewer. It's written in Python and uses GTK+. It's got a nice sidebar thumbnail viewer, and the library view shown in the image above. It's also able to handle .zip and .tar files natively, which is really useful for those of us who compress our image directories.