Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

NewsForge has an article detailing the top Linux desktop apps (according to author Joe Barr).

We go through this here every year or so also. Just thought it was interesting to note the changes and the steady players over the years.

Newsforge, Mr. Barr, call it as:

1. Evolution
2. the Gimp
3. OpenOffice.org
4. Gnumeric
5. Mozilla
6. Gphoto
7. Enemy Territory
8. GQview
9. tvtime
10. Scribus

I would personally throw in mplayer, xemacs, KDE (even though its not within the spirit of "desktop software) it is related eh?) and reinforce the love for Mozilla, Gphoto and OpenOffice.

In 2000 I called it as this stuff. And in 2002 I looked at a list more than just desktop but inclusive of desktop here.
Lots of titles remain the same and have gotten even better.