EeePC is not the only netbook in the market. Netbook market is very huge. That's why we have Ubuntu Netbook Remix, Moblin, KDE Plasma Netbook, and so on. Personally I don't believe that most of the people using them. It's more a _trend_ than a _necessity_. It's a "good to have" feature for LXDE. This could attract netbook-users... But also I believe that they'll switch to "normal" desktop+panel mode sooner or later. :-)
On 14 April 2010 15:15, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > That's good information, but it does nothing to answer the question that I > asked. If current EeePC come with Windows rather than the Xandros that the > original models came with, presumably they have the Windows interface rather > than the one that lxlauncher was built to resemble. Is that true? And if it > is, the lxlauncher customer base will dwindle to nothing. > > On 04/14/2010 07:25 AM, PCMan wrote: >> It's mainly for users of netbooks, such as EeePC. The UI resembles the >> one of EeePC a lot for easy conversion. >> The current feature branch contains totally re-designed infrastructure >> and master branch only contains out-dated code. >> I haven't merge the branch to master due to a lot of conflicts in >> translations. Anyone knows how to solve this cleanly? >> It's time to merge it to master for further development. >> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I agree with the idea that the packages should be kept on independent >>> schedules where possible. >>> >>> I do not have a good sense for how many people are using lxlauncher. I do >>> not know a lot about the history here, but I notice that eee are now coming >>> with Windows, so I would assume that the interface that lxlauncher supports >>> is trending toward only being of historic interest. Can someone shed light >>> on this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
