Hi team, I just thought I would open the door for some brainstorming in the area of Lucid and beyond! I have some thoughts I'd like to extend everyone's way.
1) gnome-app-install Do we really need it? Who really uses it? How stable is it anyways? I feel gnome-app-install does more harm than good in the XFce desktop. Firstly it does a poor job of representing the total software in the repositories. Secondly, we almost *always* send people to Synaptic or apt-get to install software. Thirdly, I've found it to be HORRIDLY unstable. On my system I've ---purge autoremove'd it. A nice side effect was that my XFce menu looks a lot nicer without that wide entry at the top. :) 2) gnome-system-monitor I know this app has some serious features that alternatives do not, but is consistently a source of problems and bugs, primarily in the area of super high CPU usage and memory leaks, ironic given the nature of the application. On my system I use a mixture of xfce4-taskmanager and htop, I'm not sure if this would be satisfactory on the majority of people's desktops but I am of the opinion that GSM has to go. 3) Totem Is the plan to stick with Totem for Lucid? It's kind of stagnant issue but it's also a difficult one to address with the next release being LTS. 4) GDM This seems to be an issue entirely out of anyone's hands unless they want to try making one using xfce libs. This is about all I can think of right now, but I do know I am missing a couple things which I will bring up at another time. I feel this is a good start to a brainstorming. Also, nobody has any intentions of adopting Pulse Audio into the Xubuntu system, right? ;) - J -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
