Very briefly commenting about the quoted software here: they both use
the Qt toolkit and thus would bring in a lot of unwanted dependencies.
This would not only mean they would be likely slower to run on lower end
machines, they would also likely appear less integrated with the system
than
I'm not a Xubuntu developper but I think this is the right thing to do. The
more user friendly it is, the best it will be.
XFCE4 is alright for software developper (which I am), but it's still a tad bit
difficult for daily/casual users. Especially the one coming from windows, which
is what we
We already do this with a few non-defaults.
- Compton, which is configured to integrate cleanly with Xubuntu.
- QT applications, which we have the configuration for but don't include
the needed qt5-style-plugins package.
The following applications already have support, but it's not enabled by
This came up during the meeting on 23rd November.
Looking for views on this - the discussion at the meeting commenced at
23:25.
I'll start the ball rolling ...
I am deeply dubious unless this can be done simply - if we end up with
things done specifically per package, where do we end?
My
