2011/1/8 Simon Steinbeiß <[email protected]> > Wow, a lot has been said here since I wrote my email two days ago, I guess > it will be hard to address all of your thoughts/inputs, so I'll focus on a > few. > > Browser: > The argument that chromium doesn't look integrated is only true for version > <9, later versions are gtk-themeable and the theme I'm currently working on > already themes chromium (it will basically look like FF does now). If > wanted/needed I can provide screenshots. > > I'd love to see some screenshots of that, because I'm currently running the Chromium daily build and it doesn't look integrated at all (e.g. tabs look really out of place).
> Two important points seem to be the updates and the larger package-size, > the first one seeming more major to me. So if I understand the implications > of what Micah wanted to say with this correctly it means that our default > browser could break within a cycle via an update (which is pretty bad imo). > > I assume (I have not really checked) and have heard several times that > chromium uses less memory than FF, it definitely feels snappier. > > All in all personally I vote for sticking to FF unless the problematic > updates can be prevented/solved somehow. > > > Email: > I think that the average user will be able to handle either Thunderbird or > Claws. While it's true that Claws' gui is a bit cluttered, it also bears a > lot of features/plugins for power-users. > If we find out that we can get rid of xulrunner (and maybe even save some > megabytes on the package-size) by removing Thunderbird as well I vote for > going with Claws. > > > Music: > I personally can't say that I like Exaile. I've been working on the above > mentioned gmusicbrowser for a while now, upstream is very responsive and > cooperative. The only issues I can see now are that it doesn't support > webradio (yet) and iPod-support is also unavailable. Its package-size is > also pretty small (2mb smaller than Exaile), here's a link to the version I > maintain (you can also test it via the ppa): > http://shimmerproject.org/projects/shimmer-for-gmusicbrowser/ > > > > It would be nice if any of you have the time (unfortunately I don't > currently) to set up a wiki-page to collect and order the most important > arguments brought up in this discussion. Mailinglists are nice because it > feels a lot more responsive than commonly edited wiki-pages, but for > structuring the arguments it would be helpful. > > Simon > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > -- Vincent
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