On Dec 1, 2012 9:27 PM, "Santiago Roland" <[email protected]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I didn't know about the license of VLC, i thought it was open-source, The included codecs are not, nor are they likely ever to be opensource... vlc is one of the first things I install. The ui is arguably not for mass appeal. I use it as a general media player. Feel free and contact the owners of the included codecs and ask them about open sourcing the products they create/maintain... > anyway we lack a good video player for ubuntoos and that is a hard fact. > > About the dark theme: Yes it is not that dark, but is not light. The > terminal is black with background gray, come on! Like android > interface? the best interfase whatsoever? android is a tablet > interfase designed for short period operations. You can navigate for > hours, but you would not be using the dark interfase, you would be > using the website interfase, dark intersafe works for 15 minutes with > your friends, but for working stations and desktops the light color > scheme is far better, you can read better, your eyes rest better even > the response times for visual searching are lesser with light color > schemes (less milliseconds), search for my mail several months ago > about that. Even more! One of the studies i cited, stated that the > best color scheme is black text over subtle grey, guess what color > scheme the macs have? They are not stupid, they have all figured out. > > About the music player: It is difficult to integrate with XFCE because > is a GNOME app? it seems very integrated to me, i have my notification > area icon and works very well. If it is about performance, lets run > mp3 through terminal and say no more. Banshee allows to have internet > radios, find duplicates for files, and tag information fix tool that > is great and it downloads artwork, searching tool is fast and it never > crashes. Performance? there are other things besides performance, > banshee is intuitive and it looks very good to the noob. > > About the File Manager: Nobody said nothing about the file manager > (you guys use terminal for copying? haha, sometimes i do, ok), anyway > i think it is in crisis for a long time. Nautilus is the only that > could handle improvements. Lets get real, i love thunar. it's fast, > but cannot eject pendrives without giving errors and messages saying > that a job is pending or the device is busy. You do not see that in > macOS or even Windows. Why is this a problem in Linux? When you are in > a hurry and you need just eject the thumb, there is always an error. > That scares many people away. Tabs, and the ability for right click > and query "properties" for many folders is a big miss, and there is a > big miss to not have a encrypt/decrypt file. In this days > encrypt/decrypt files is important and common like compress/decompress > files. > > I have to say that i'm obviously not a developer, but i'm a very > skilled user of linux for many years. You guys must know that XFCE is > a DE with one of the highest performance/usability relation, and for > that you have to keep the usability value very much. > > I see arguments about LibreOffice and stuff. Someone said "Libreoffice > is slow". So, tell me how i'm i suppose to have a libreoffice > replacement or an openoffice replacement or office suite that does not > get slow? Every suite is slow! Abiword and Gnumeric are great, but > they are not an office suite! So by adding of libreoffice i think > Xubuntu would improve the usability very much and it would be a > serious possibility of installation by many people. Look at the > example of thunderbird! it is a great app! but it is a quite slow for > a P3 whatsoever. But it supports openPGP and so many things that make > Xubuntu very good by having thunderbird by default, and quite the same > for Firefox. > > Somebody said recently something that there would be great a cheese > like app in Xubuntu, that's it! It seems to me that we are at war with > the DVD. I think that if a machine is 10 years old Xubuntu is not > good, maybe DSL or puppy, just like that. Xubuntu should focus for P4 > and up but that's a different discussion. Software code and libs and > features increases and maybe a DVD is better, it makes Xubuntu > complete out of the box. Maybe you can try booting with usb thumb if > you do not have a CD, or make a Xubuntu alternate or mini version w/o > many apps that fit the CD. > > And remember that with time, there were some other derivatives of > ubuntu that make the job better than Xubuntu, like Lubuntu using LXDE. > > Best 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/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQurxSAAoJEJ6hX3UE34B28BwQAIkbv1fAzGYktS/XjTeGiiRE > 7dPFeg9AikcdSD8EqE0WkU4LLHUWQHfZViKPP2/zUxFbSfiIkaRzt0etz5/j1n1P > l/ro/8f74FywnHb5FO56Hi56yQPcAN/c2rT7FsXIpfnFPbrquzwfRPm+QBf4NeBr > eTDB9w7OCaEY5VzFp8r7tFk+WV9w57HGmxRGEr/SBa0/dIKkHXhe4OVlRerXVS/V > tju4KW0oGPOQ0ZawjkITzgQD959EunBpLWC+jZRkWY5267WvBGPdWyYJkbXmOsA5 > fva5BVFz0xe+FuICk65CY+BIkKod0aoM9FKvLR1xWaAdPZGihLMwDpcRWLAljTA3 > lMg1i4DFkTzK8opV5cs4LyozzbvRabcW8+vGFhjoRFOR3p9k9Q9kt89NYatOYHVU > sds6STs11jJc+WJtjy1h6Is3Fh3v5LLbP+3hCtfqJxV+x2w2pbRCoLOOThXh5eYL > 9r0E3/5rdAe3oCI33Mxv6xENqpzmWxlJfKFgiTBjTk1btid7cee/S0LWDIWVBLHu > 0Tc7LQpxAfUdSArfsOgPAr2Gt79xUEpbsQJveKZVLo/VJE9ahVMKK9nO8GsZSJgg > +1nSvHZuhb1rxui0aiTbrQgUQmPSUSGEKN0UasFxnWdXNnFp32W5GxkL3g9KOpMb > FYKC/H2/zNIzLlyY2Ee1 > =/V5S > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
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