On 18/12/2007, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18/12/07 06:41:55, Giuseppe Torelli wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2007 1:29 PM, Jani Monoses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is unrelated to this patch, but I'd rather we drop battery plugin > and > > > use gnome-power-manager as it gives a lot more information and is > better > > > integrated with the rest of the power management. > > > > Another gnome app in a XFCE related distro? So the hour will come when > > there will be no need to use XFCE because of the aboundance of > > gnome-related program and Xubuntu will be a bloated copy of Ubuntu. > > I know this was beaten to death (and quite a bit beyond) previously, but I > never did figure something out: what is your aversion to all things gnome? > There are some gnome apps that are quite tightly coupled to the gnome > environment and so pull in lots of libraries when used outside of gnome > but > there are others that are really just GTK apps that happen to have gnome > in > their name because they were aimed primarily at gnome users (and a > continuum > between the two extremes). > > Ubuntu does a lot of things very well. Xubuntu exists to modify Ubuntu a > bit > to make it fit a different niche. What to change and what to use from base > Ubuntu is a Hard Problem and I'm sure you could give useful input but > simply > repeating "Gnome is evil" and predicting the downfall of Xubuntu if any > apps > are included with gnome in the name is not very productive. > > And please do so in another thread ;-)
gnome-power-manager sounds fine to me. -- Vincent
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