Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-16 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, the Lubuntu team is also pretty small, you can and are welcome to chat about 'off-topic' things at http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=18 Whilst that area of my forum is strictly non-official to the lubuntu project people on the project or people asking / commenting on how they

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-16 Thread Zach Kleinhenz
Eg you do alright Phill Cheers! Zach K On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net wrote: Hi, the Lubuntu team is also pretty small, you can and are welcome to chat about 'off-topic' things at http://forum.phillw.net/viewforum.php?f=18 Whilst that area of my forum

[Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-15 Thread Duy Hùng Trần
Hello all! In my country, Microsoft Powerpoint is a popular application in university and office, and I belive it is also popular in other countries. We have abiword and gnumeric in Lubuntu but we still don't have any application to create presentations like Microsoft Powerpoint. So users don't

[Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-15 Thread John Webster
Not really the answer, of course, but Softmaker Office for Linux, which includes a decent presentation component, installs easily and runs well under Lubuntu, puts less demand on computing resources than OO, and is highly compatible with MS Office. Discounts are often available from Softmaker

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-15 Thread John Webster
Dear Phill I wasn't arguing against the current Lubuntu defaults - they are fine, and entirely appropriate for the mission statement. In fact, I think that the Lubuntu team are doing a great job, which is why I'm here. I use Lubuntu to escape the horrors of Windows XP on older machines, and

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-15 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, the devil is in the detail I use Lubuntu to escape the horrors of Windows XP on older machines, and Ubuntu or Kubuntu to avoid the slightly lesser, but still considerable, frustrations associated with Windows 7 on more capable hardware. In my experience, any machine that does a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] A lightweight presentation application for Lubuntu?

2010-08-15 Thread John Webster
I probably need to repeat my opening comment that I don't want the Lubuntu team to add anything to the standard installation, for the very reasons you quote. I'm not that keen on Xubuntu - basically, it now has so many embedded Gnome components, it's not all that much lighter than vanilla Ubuntu,