Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] 431 users!

2011-11-20 Thread James Gifford
By pinch of salt, you probably mean that's all the users that responded. I'd be willing to bet many more use lubuntu that don't read OMG Ubuntu!, but that's still an impressive number for such a minority ubuntu flavor! :D Cheers, James Gifford On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Yorvyk

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-05 Thread James Gifford
I'm one of the target audiences for Lubuntu, mainly that of the underpowered netbook user. In my experience, Chromium is faster, until you start having a ton (read: 4-10) tabs open. At that point, Firefox starts to be better. Just my two cents. Cheers, James Gifford On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-05 Thread James Gifford
In fact, if we were really looking for a lightweight browser, might I suggest Midori?[1] It's a Webkit based browser, very lightweight on CPU/RAM. Cheers, James Gifford [1] https://launchpad.net/midori On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Hùng Trần nguyentieu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I prefer

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [12.04] Firefox instead of Chromium?

2011-11-05 Thread James Gifford
which means we don't have to worry a *lot* about security bugs. Cheers, James Gifford On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: If it's a vote... i would keep chromium. I always keep both browsers just in case, but my benchmarks on my old pentium 3 can't

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu - One Stop Thread

2011-11-03 Thread James Gifford
, but the mythbuntu team is migrating from the forums to AU over the next several weeks, no reason why Lubuntu couldn't migrate over as well. Cheers, James Gifford On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: A. J., The one stop Lubuntu thread looks great!  I love what you've

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Rename LSC?

2011-10-17 Thread James Gifford
Something to keep in mind is that it's not just Lubuntu, it's LXDE - so anything that happens needs to also get approved at that level (for some things at least, not sure about all of them). Cheers, James Gifford On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Ali Linx amjja...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Glenn

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] PPA for lubuntu-software-center

2011-09-08 Thread James Gifford
Hey Matthew - to install it, run sudo apt-get update to update your repository list and then try to install it. Cheers, James Gifford http://jamesrgifford.com On Sep 8, 2011, at 0:40, Matthew Byers faintstlsa...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to install, i added ppa then updated then tried

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Proposed changes to lubuntu-desktop

2011-06-07 Thread James Gifford
2. Correct. My mistake. Cheers, James Gifford http://jamesrgifford.com On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:14 PM, PCMan pcman...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Lubuntu is lightweght + good usability. Sometimes usability should outweigh memory usage if the lighter alternatives are not as usable, xpdf for example

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Proposed changes to lubuntu-desktop

2011-06-06 Thread James Gifford
it's worth. :) --James Gifford http://jamesrgifford.com On Jun 6, 2011, at 21:57, Markus Brummer markus.brum...@helsinki.fi wrote: Hi, I'd like to propose some changes to the lubuntu-desktop package. This is primarily meant to the developers, but other users may be interested. The point

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Possible bug?

2011-06-02 Thread James Gifford
I'm on 11.04 and I'm not getting that behavior either. --James Gifford http://jamesrgifford.com On Jun 2, 2011, at 20:11, matthew byers faintstlsa...@gmail.com wrote: What release are you running? I am on 10.10 and i didnt get that behavior. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Jared Norris jrnor