On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:40:19 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <[email protected]> wrote:
> The following text is in Spanish... > > First I congratulate for the excellent work Lubuntu, everything works pretty > well. > I want to comment that i use this operating system on a Compaq 1700 > (1000mhz, 256...@100mhz) and I emerge the following "problems": > > 1. Chromium is very light, but has a problem with the scrolling (it's a > known problem). On older computers like mine the effect is exaggerated > resulting horrible. Firefox and Midori does not have this problem. I’ve not noticed this, and most of my Lubuntu machines have less CPU speed. In fact I find FF is often rather sluggish on older hardware. > 2. Chromium has too many animations, such as opening a new tab or page > "new tab", making it difficult things the old computers. Again I’ve not noticed any animations nor can I see any now. > 3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is > heavier but is a real working tool. I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad. Only rarely do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel spreadsheet.were somebody has used some dubious technique to achieve something that can be done in a simpler way. > > Solutions: > > 1. I have heard that Firefox has been optimized for use in Ubuntu, you > can not do something similar with Chromium and Lubuntu? (or create an app > eliminating all those fancy animations, installed by default in lubuntu) > 2. Open Office works for me pretty well (once it has made some > arrangements and off Java), a bit slow to start but nothing unbearable. I > recommend Open Office but this is very subjective > > I want to help with Lubuntu but i have no programming skills... how can i > help? > -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
