IMHO, I see some points in these suggestions. - Font size is dependent on the resolution used. This is (at first glance) a problem in the configuration of X (something like "DisplaySize") not LXDE. Of course GNOME has a fix for that, but keep in mind that it is a workaround that works only for itself. - ACPI already has a bunch of scripts that are read to react to events. They are often run as root, but many actions related on events imply the whole system (close lid => switch off screen or suspend, power button => reboot, special buttons for flat panel that often deals system wide with the graphic card, volume up/down that affect the whole audio system...). Probably LXDE could provide a tool for other special buttons that trigger actions in user space only, but I know such tools already exists. So maybe just a little lifting has to be done to them. On the other hand, application itself should do a big job in this issue, such as lxmusic that should react on multimedia buttons (I don't know if it does already). - LXDE should respect the freedesktop.org standards for folders. I though this was already the case so there is probably a good reason the autostart folder is not used ? - Evolution is a great project, but it's big and full of extra features that many won't ever need. You may want to use a calendar out of a mail reader, or a mail reader without calendar. LXDE tries to keep lightweight so it can't integrate well out of the box with heavy projects that require huge libraries. Of course, plugins are here to answer this kind of issues. - Automount is IMHO not the task of a desktop environment. pmount, hal and udev are designed for this kind of task. - gvfs integration has been long discussed. - X-KDE-SubstituteUID is not really a freedesktop.org specification at the moment if I'm not mistaken. The idea is great, but let's first discuss about what is really expected in this functionality before everyone develop its own incompatible integration.
Well, that was my two cents, but all in all, I believe the big problem is that GNOME deals in wrong place with many problems that are not relevant to desktop environments. Moreover, there are often many answers to a problem and GNOME imposes one solution that may not be the best for everyone. That's why I switched from GNOME and I do not expect LXDE to deal with these issues. Cilyan 2009/7/17 Mario Behling <[email protected]>: > Hello Andrea, > > thanks for the suggestions. We have discussed most of these issues > before. There are reasons why certain things not included or why they > are not yet included. > > For example, please, check: > * http://blog.lxde.org/?p=352 > * http://blog.lxde.org/?p=380 > > Are you in touch with James? Maybe we could invite him to have a look > into the repository and get involved. > > All the best, > > Mario > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Andrea Florio<[email protected]> wrote: >> check this blog post: >> >> http://jamesthevicar.com/blog/?post=20090716_lxde_gnome >> >> i think lots of his suggestions should be integrated.. >> >> Andrea >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------ >> Andrea Florio >> QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin >> openSUSE-Education Administrator >> openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) >> Email: [email protected] >> Packman Packaging Team >> Email: [email protected] >> Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ >> Cell: +39-328-7365667 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
