[Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread Glen Bizeau
I especially like the little list at the bottom http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/KDE-a-resource-hog-949634.html ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launch

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread David Sugar
Well, in all fairness, KDE has a very specific architectural vision, starting with things like plasma, etc, and it is not one that had been focused on minimizing requirements. For people that want those things KDE offers, thats fine, and that does not seem like bloat to them, I am sure. I am howe

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread Andrew Woodhead
I don't contest the results but can someone explain how a lighter DE uses less power? Is it because the CPU is used less so takes less juice? Nice article though. KDE is really bloated and the Kubuntu team is quite small. -Andy On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Glen Bizeau wrote: > I especially l

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Yes. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Andrew Woodhead < andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't contest the results but can someone explain how a lighter DE uses > less power? Is it because the CPU is used less so takes less juice? > Nice article though. KDE is really bloated and the K

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Dienstag, 9. März 2010 14:50:06 schrieb Andrew Woodhead: > I don't contest the results but can someone explain how a lighter DE uses > less power? Is it because the CPU is used less so takes less juice? > Nice article though. KDE is really bloated and the Kubuntu team is quite > small. > > -And

[Lubuntu-desktop] PCManFM2 and libfm is almost ready for 'feature freeze'.

2010-03-09 Thread PCMan
Hi list, I released pcmanfm 0.9.2 + libfm 0.1.5 alpha. The main change beside bug fixes is the ability to set default web browser and mail client. This is achieved via a new gio module. Now you can execute libfm-pref-apps to see it. By default it's hidden from applications menu if you're in Gnome,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] PCManFM2 and libfm is almost ready for 'feature freeze'.

2010-03-09 Thread Julien Lavergne
Lubuntu PPA updated, last update (I hope) before the request for upload in official repository. +1 for the feature freeze, will be easier for the feature freeze request :) I tested quickly the new pref-apps, but it didn't recognize chromium. Regards, Julien Lavergne Le mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 01

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] PCManFM2 and libfm is almost ready for 'feature freeze'.

2010-03-09 Thread PCMan
Then this could be a chromium bug as google chrome is correctly recognized. Please make sure that chromium.desktop contains "Categories=WebBrowser;...;". WebBrowser category was used to recognize installed browsers, so the missing category in desktop file might be the cause. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 a

[Lubuntu-desktop] Re: �P於 lxdm �F�r

2010-03-09 Thread PCMan
Hi all developers and users, Earlier dgod and I discussed about the way lxdm handles $PATH environment variable. According to the suggestion from dgod, directly passing existing environment variables to lxdm is not a good idea and PATH should be restricted to /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin only. However,