Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-03-09 Thread PCMan
Regarding to the menu editor, actually there is an easy fix. To fork gnome menu editor and have it loads lxde-applications.menu file instead of gnome's applications.menu. It's written in python and patching this won't be too difficult. However, maintaining a fork for such a project just to do this

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-03-09 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 01:00 +0800, PCMan a écrit : Regarding to the menu editor, actually there is an easy fix. To fork gnome menu editor and have it loads lxde-applications.menu file instead of gnome's applications.menu. It's written in python and patching this won't be too difficult.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-03-08 Thread Me
The problem with the 'do everything for everybody' approach is ending up like xubuntu ie take a lightweight de and add all the bloat from ubuntu to end up with something that is just as heavy. Surely if people want the simple do everything out of the box approach they can just use ubuntu.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Chris
Hai Tim, Welcome on the mailing-list first of all. You seem to have a pretty clear image in what might be efficient. You might enlighten us with your definition of an efficient OS. Love to hear your thoughts. Cheers, Chris On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 15:10, Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:10:12 -0500 Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: What should Lubuntu do? I realize that being lightweight is a major focus for Lubuntu and I agree 100%. But keep in mind that the average user will have expectations for their OS and that not everyone will use it

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Tim Bernhard
For me it's really three main areas. First is battery consumption under normal use. I want my 8 hour battery to last a close to 8 hours, not less than 6 like it did with Ubuntu. Second, I look at the user interface. I hate having two task-bars when everything I need will fit in one. I never

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Tim Bernhard
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:10:12 -0500 Tim Bernhard ohiom...@gmail.com wrote: So my question is what dose the average user expect their OS to do out of the box? Pretend you are putting it on someone's machine.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread PYROcomp
For me the MOST important function would be support for older machines. Regards, REXMO .___. / \ | O _ O | /\_/\ .' / \ `. / _| |_ \ (_/ | | \_) \ / __\_-_/__ ~;/ \;~ Don't mess with the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
For me the MOST important function would be support for older machines. We have to start from one fact: if Lubuntu can run in an acceptable way in an old machine, it will run incredibly on a newer machine. Let me use it with external monitors/TV as a basic media player (HDMI out) For me,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread PYROcomp
qoute- You don't have to throw away your old machine, since it will revamp a machine starting from a P2* and above giving you a full and ready to use desktop in your own language. /quote Does the 11.04 edition in fact run on P2s? As I understand it support for old CPUs was dropped from the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Well, at least 10.04 runs well on it... don't know if there's any project to compile kernels for old cpus... 2011/2/25 PYROcomp rexmo...@gmail.com qoute- You don't have to throw away your old machine, since it will revamp a machine starting from a P2* and above giving you a full and ready to

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ask yourself...

2011-02-25 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:08:17 -0600 PYROcomp rexmo...@gmail.com wrote: qoute- You don't have to throw away your old machine, since it will revamp a machine starting from a P2* and above giving you a full and ready to use desktop in your own language. /quote Does the 11.04 edition in fact