Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread 神癒礁湖 · Rafael Laguna
Fully agree, but we must consider not to make the same errors than Puppy and its derivatives. It has a bunch of UGLY applications and a hard way to configure a few things. You cannot add drivers (like HP Scanners or Brother printers). We're in the right way, but we need, obviously, to improve our

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread Glenn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Although I might heavily regret it later on, but maybe we should stick to (the horrible) xfburn, since Brasero does use a lot of dependencies and is kinda slow. :( And slow + many dependencies is unacceptable in a ¨true¨ lightweight distro, even if the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread Glenn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only ¨true¨ gnome dependency of Brasero is the gnome icon theme. I think it is not bad. - -Glenn >> Someone told us that Brasero brings gnome dependencies so at that time >> xfburn was chosen. However, recently I tried brasero and I found it >> m

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread PCMan
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Glenn 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

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread Lane Lester
> VIDEO > VLC is very very good but it brings in nasty QT dependencies > I wish, when I install a non-KDE non-Gnome distro, I could avoid those dependencies, but it seems there's always one program that drags them in. I think Sun Virtualbox requires the QTs, and Synaptic the Gnomes... but maybe no

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread Glenn
-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

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu application discussion for maverick

2010-05-14 Thread PCMan
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Glenn wrote: > Hello guys, > > I noticed LXmusic is in the Ubuntu lucid repo´s, I installed it on my > Ubuntu lucid desktop and after choosing an output plugin (default is > none for some reason) in the settings menu it nicely played my mp3´s and > possibly also ot