I've been looking at the VLC build flags, and it looks like it is possible to be compiled without the qt4 dependencies. Wouldn't that make it a viable solution as a media player?
I am looking more into it... Adam On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Dallas Wiebelhaus <wiebelh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Also we could learn a allot from the puppy project they have already banged > out years of learning the hardway! And today they have the quintessential > light weight desktop of out of the box that can run on anything after a 486. > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Ed Hewitt > <edwardahew...@googlemail.com>wrote: > >> I think we should go with Firefox. However, OpenOffice would solve the >> problem of having no presentation software if we went with Abiword & >> Gnumeric. We could use these tweaks to speed up OpenOffice. >>> >> http://lifehacker.com/software/optimization/speed-up-openoffice-270775.php >> >> By going "small", we will achieve the objective of achieving a lightweight >> distro. However, I still think a good out of the box experience, as long as >> we keep it to a minimal. So by having a few basic utilities (such as >> synaptic), need a few must have apps (such as web browser, office apps, >> chat, media player). we can still achieve a user friend lightweight distro. >> Its all about getting the right balance. >> >> Maybe another Lubuntu IRC Meeting could be useful to discuss my points. It >> would be great to have an application list set in time for Karmic. Could be >> Lubuntu's first release???? >> >> -- >> www.edhewitt.co.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- ><)))*> Embrace Eternity <*(((><
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