On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Glenn <glenn_de_gr...@hotmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello PCman, > > so we are keeping Gnome-Mplayer, Aqualung and Chromium. > But what about replacing Pidgin by Ayttm, or are we sticking to Pidgin? > And why has Sylpheed been chosen instead of Claws, are their any > important differences? > Also, we should pick u GOOD cd burning program, I find that XFBurn has > an TERRIBLE interface, and it also brings in thunar dependencies. > So what about Brasero?
Someone told us that Brasero brings gnome dependencies so at that time xfburn was chosen. However, recently I tried brasero and I found it much more usable, too and the dependencies seem to be reasonable. So I guess it's acceptable? > Does anyone know why LXtask is not in the ubuntu repositories? I think > we need to use LXtask instead of xfce-taskmanager, since it is the LXDE > default. This may be caused by some debian developers? > - -Glenn > >> I'm the original developer of LXMusic and now Juergen maintains it. >> Aqualung is suggested by me in the beginning, too. Aqualung is one of >> the "full-featured", "desktop independent" players which is still >> actively maintained and it actually uses less resouce than lxmusic + >> xmms2. So I use it myself. Recently, we found more good gtk+ only >> lightweight players such as DeadBeef or Pragha. They are better than >> LXMusic IMHO. LXMusic has the most minimalistic UI, and the one >> provided by DeadBeef is very similar to that provided by LXMusic. So >> please give DeadBeef a try. LXMusic is not able to handle drag & drop >> within the playlist and it has performance problem loading large >> playlist due to the design flaws of xmms2. >> >> This is meanless and can create unnecessary maintainance load. In the >> end you'll get nothing but more bugs. >> Browser is one of the biggest security hole in our desktop system. So >> the good criteria to choose a browsers are: >> 1. Have a large professional team to maintain >> 2. Actively developed and frequently updated >> 3. Bugs can be fixed in short time, especially the security-related bugs. >> 4. Have large enough user base to discover potential problems and >> security issues >> 5. Guarantee the compatibility with existing and future standards >> 6. Well supported by third-party tools and websites >> So, that's clearly why the only reasonable choices are Firefox and >> Chroimium/Google Chrome. >> Epiphany and Midori are good for personal use at home, but they won't >> be robust enough and their future are uncertain due to lack of >> developers. So, I'll never suggest using them for a serious mainstream >> distro. >> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL7Q3gAAoJEFx07M0xzp8w69cIAKwxOHjOUgrEOZCxnC2hyCTr > XX1BxnvCnJpmhKF7fdL0EacB1/Xrm0HorsWNvKrbNkm3Mw+RSrnlLmf6H7NLrE+G > S0nJjlzOH679QMMrG83xugVU/R9Hwe4LMPHdKntypPeCrqugxzs7YXRe3YvFszuz > 9i4viv1MVFGIxTvC7dP/VpquOALfugSpEXTCFDoES6c/4m7CGT2d3MjCxomrlBjE > HpAPsdFP8s6ZzQu/7fdCoDeb5u+XsXVuoBdPZNpICAHj26qAKOSY77hWpvJBYYV1 > kM32IP3AouaPW21SthtC/ivAa0XqhDa0RTK6lK0O8yE/Ke+SVoHFSoACdyergyw= > =ofZD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
