J. Anthony Limon wrote: > 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. :) > I agree you on this. I don't really know gnome-app-install since I always use apt-get or Synaptic myself. Maybe we should just seed Synaptic as the default application/repository manager in Lucid? > 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. > For now, I don't think the Xfce components can deliver the same amount of features and, regretfully, quality. I also like htop, but we can't consider it as the main application for system monitoring, as it's CLI and many people fear command line. > 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. > Agree. There is loads of *decent* video player alternatives. I've never liked Totem. It sounds it is from the stone-age. I'd really like to see something else already in Lucid. > 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? ;) > My personal experience is that PA is only bringing in problems, but if we can get those sorted out, I can live with it. I hear PA can do wonderful things once it works.
We probably want to ship Exaile as our default media player for Lucid also, but I want to finger at the really bad quality of media players in general in Karmic. Most of them do not work for me at all (read: they crash constantly or leak into memory). Cheers, -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
