hiyas JM, wasting RAm actually referred to having x-chat and pidgin both running together... x-chat does IRC fanatastically, but is not too good at MSN messenger, AOL / AIM, Yahoo! etc :)
regards, Phill. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]>wrote: > Phill, > > On 05/28/2011 04:24 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > If we are going to keep pidgin for IM, what do we need xchat for? > > Mainly for those of us who use IRC, and only IRC, and have used xchat > for years :) It's a matter of personal preference, of course. > > If there is good reason to remove xchat, I'll live (after all, I can > make custom ISOs based on Lubuntu fairly easily if I feel like it :) > > > Do we really want to waste RAM with two programmes? > > RAM? Wait! xchat does not load by default at boot. How does it waste > RAM? It is only using RAM when you choose to run it. > > If "wasting RAM" is the issue, then removing xchat from the default > install will not solve it. What led you to conclude that including > xchat is "wasting RAM"? > > If we need more space on the CD for new whizzy stuff, OK, then we > probably need to go through the package list looking for things we can > remove. What new whizzy stuff is being added in Lubuntu 11.10 that > requires extra disk/CD space? I thought we had more or less reached > consensus among the devs that Lubuntu 11.10 was primarily a "bug fix and > migrate to official build infrastructure and GTK3" release -- has that > changed? > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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