-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A couple of things in my opinion that should be considered in future Xubuntu releases
1) VLC as default video player. In my experience, it is the only video player that never refused to reproduce a single video. The only time it failed was because the file was corrupted. I mean, any operating system must ship with a decent video player and Parole does not fulfill that. Parole get sucked for several seconds with any video MP4, AVI, etc and that is very annoying. 2) Libreoffice must be considered if decent compatibility is desired. It is a complete office suite that cannot be compared to abiword+gnumeric. Maybe there should be a minimal Xubuntu iso without this things, but for the everyday life, this things must be out of the box 3) Xubuntu should ship with a decent light color theme, not a dark one. It is demonstrated even with surveys that darker themes are harder to read. I pointed to some links a while ago, that i think nobody checked out. It's better for reading, it treats the eye pupil dilatation better and that it's well known by website designers. Every dark theme has applications that show very poor font contrast and even icon contrast. XFCE used to come with light color theme by default, and that should be restored again, maybe choosing theme could be implemented during installation? Default white, and if you want to your machine looks like FBI ones, change theme later. And the reason is that the people that like to tune up themes is more likely to have some skills the people that simply use the machine as is. 4) The Cairo-like toolbar should be avoided, is the intention to look like macOS? XFCE looks already fine with only one toolbar, up or down... cairo? leave that for people that want to tune up the appearence. 5) Music player should be Banshee by default, or some player that show album art, maybe gmusicbrowser with a less complicated layout. maybe emulate banshee layout with gmusicbrowser? 6) definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely need to improve GTK3 support. The are NO themes that fully support GTK3? if i install apps, like evolution for email or USC or update manager i cannot use Clearlooks! it completely breaks the appearence for those apps. This is very wrong. maybe we can blame GTK imposition, but there has to be more supported GTK3 themes like Clearlooks and such. Not Adwaita, nor other theme fix this, windows look very different if they are gtk2 or gtk3. 7) what if Xubuntu ships larger that a CD? i installed Xubuntu in a P3 750 and i barely can navigate through webpages, the cpu is not enough for web browsing. Leave that for the Xubuntu minimal version.... Xubuntu should hit high and compete with other desktops environments, it can and it is better in so many aspects. 8) Enable tabs in thunar, a decrypt file plugin, add the ability to show "properties" for several selected folders and add the ability to correctly eject usb pendrives because actually can no do that. Otherwise nautilus is needed. Or, change to nautilus default, but this is a bit insane and in this point i would use ubuntu then. Regards! - -- - - -- Santiago Roland.- - ------------------------------------ Observatorio Astronómico Los Molinos IAU CODE 844 - Montevideo, Uruguay OALM - DICYT - MEC - ------------------------------------ openPGP key: 04DF8076 http://is.gd/jKuIhW - ------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQunZ1AAoJEJ6hX3UE34B22K8P+wahwWhXewqJepPq0RSfmRcv imHWAgg//vf2BTDf4dy/gvI5dFtsqW5w1C2u35KS5unwH4/det4iKsnyylEm5pSZ kHEGV36nK8uaEfIkw8K7zq1mG/yhSjqRNe7C+NUyldpE6zbuelBoAjEsNvs8ua8b OF4ru54I/cnPw8zvBtM+MXO37wEkvh8CXNeM57zCsdSi1llZGRL/yQQvtW/KKuna VDEiD5HA/6YQdCnmNLlVmTgPMtX4eCsg4fXEznyPkqSfu39hQdhWLluqfrwn1uib 8Sg6Zr8zWEhkU4QehslZ82lKJo9kuBEt+me72OP2oa9Y6xvHXp8qR0SqhTnXLh9a sslBmPf32TDEpvKAyFhdp3AIpiTwgHQT2siXVHxkmV3xJFp2FFby7ei6wvMKV5x1 Om5TocNV9rFHlPz7EAbCaysXhO8E+pSndqE4fpp/Y+OV2jA7b8vfmn6t9vVThkY0 isPcDUVlumtynl8cYOY7sy+O6rYSPyrWrnTP53311PBF++Q9r3Q1funNV7Ggrbt0 8AoS/f4/tnWX4BgbGYTUW6GIBDBlDzJhc/NbL6vI/f6arfMFQYXKo1Z0WGaJ4pQb ZdxN3b2srwKq98UN2XWjhy7WtTzEyBLxZRDiZMrI8CDVW4slwDTwI8uv6qUFAl/H hOC4CFes8Iqk6We92Nss =FALz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
