Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread PCMan
I'd suggest that you do some investigate to see what's the cause of performance problems of software center first, and to see if avoiding them is possible. If it's not possible to avoid the performance problems, then go for a simplified synaptic. This could save you quite a lot of time for try and

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:52:54 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: we need a simplex synaptic or a lighter USC? A lighter USC - synaptic if far too complicated for the average user :/ In what way is Synaptic 'far too complicated'? To make USC faster all that needs

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le Friday 29 July 2011 à 15:44 +0100, Yorvyk a écrit : A lighter USC - synaptic if far too complicated for the average user :/ In what way is Synaptic 'far too complicated'? To make USC faster all that needs doing is the unnecessary bits removed. Get rid of the reviews and pretty

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread Stefano
This mean, for example, hide the libs or other not-app packages by default? On 29/07/2011 18:01, Julien Lavergne wrote: Le Friday 29 July 2011 à 15:44 +0100, Yorvyk a écrit : A lighter USC - synaptic if far too complicated for the average user :/ In what way is Synaptic 'far too

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
2011/7/29 Stefano eco.st...@fastwebnet.it This mean, for example, hide the libs or other not-app packages by default? Exactly! It must make the difference between packages and applications for it to be user-friendly :) ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-29 Thread Yorvyk
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:23:46 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/29 Stefano eco.st...@fastwebnet.it This mean, for example, hide the libs or other not-app packages by default? Exactly! It must make the difference between packages and applications for it to be

[Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-28 Thread Stefano
i can say that on my 64 bit system lubuntu software center uses 50 MB RAM less than ubuntu software center (30 mb). the script will be less weight than 1 MB, it depends only on gtk and apt. anyway i think that lubuntu software center should be a kind of more user-friendly synaptic, and not a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-28 Thread Filip Dominec
Writing and mantaining own application of this importance can be tedious and risky task. Maybe we should first just assess what components of Ubuntu SW center make it slow and RAM consuming. If possible, second step could be to compile an Ubuntu SW center version which would have minimal

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Can be lubuntu software center good thing?

2011-07-28 Thread Stefano
i think that sometimes rewrite is better than cleanup the code, and i dont' know if the authors of USC will be available. anyway, we are in democracy XD and this is the spirit of the open-source, i'm available to write python apps. P.S. i'm very sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian :-P On