Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-21 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am 21.08.2010 02:09, schrieb Phillip Whiteside: To have a application considered for inclusion it must be stable, use no disk space to install and use no RAM or CPU time when running. If it meets all those of those, AND is in the official Ubuntu Repositories there will be a vote held. (yes, it

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-21 Thread Phillip Whiteside
hi Leszek, my e-mail was a 'rough guide' to people wanting to see how applications behave. As you have stated, there is little chance of us getting a deffinative guide up but that was about the best the best I could think of. My asking that the application be run, may not have been clear that I

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-20 Thread Leszek Lesner
This is an interesting topic. I really don't know how to recognize them before testing them. But looking to other so called lightweight distributions and there default applications would be one way to do this. Another one would be looking at the homepages of the different applications and trying

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-20 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le vendredi 20 août 2010 à 12:53 +0700, Duy Hùng Trần a écrit : When I introduce Lubuntu to people in my country, I'm sure the most asked questions are: How to ... in Lubuntu?, What software to ... in Lubuntu?. Most people in Vietnam still use Microsoft Windows, they don't know about Linux,

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-20 Thread Phillip Whiteside
To have a application considered for inclusion it must be stable, use no disk space to install and use no RAM or CPU time when running. If it meets all those of those, AND is in the official Ubuntu Repositories there will be a vote held. (yes, it really does seem like that when proposing a new

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-20 Thread Duy Hùng Trần
Thanks everybody! You've helped me alot! I will always notice your instructions. Regards, Hung 2010/8/21 Phillip Whiteside phi...@phillw.net To have a application considered for inclusion it must be stable, use no disk space to install and use no RAM or CPU time when running. If it meets all

[Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-19 Thread Duy Hùng Trần
Hi all! When I introduce Lubuntu to people in my country, I'm sure the most asked questions are: How to ... in Lubuntu?, What software to ... in Lubuntu?. Most people in Vietnam still use Microsoft Windows, they don't know about Linux, about Ubuntu or Lubuntu, but they are ready to try something

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] How to know applications are lightweight or not?

2010-08-19 Thread Michał Ćwikliński
There is no other way then use (try) it - or search over Internet. W dniu 20.08.2010 07:53, Duy Hùng Trần pisze: Hi all! When I introduce Lubuntu to people in my country, I'm sure the most asked questions are: How to ... in Lubuntu?, What software to ... in Lubuntu?. Most people in Vietnam