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

2010-05-14 Thread Glenn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, VIDEO VLC is very very good but it brings in nasty QT dependencies and it uses too many dependencies for Lubuntu I think. I think we should keep Mplayer until other players like Parole become good alternatives. AUDIO On the LXDE blog it

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

2010-05-14 Thread PCMan
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Glenn glenn_de_gr...@hotmail.com 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

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

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 not.

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

2010-05-14 Thread PCMan
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Glenn glenn_de_gr...@hotmail.com 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

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