first off may i humbly say that picking chromium as the default web browser because of low memory usage is a mistake
chromium actually has much much worse memory usage than firefox. especially when you visit sites that utilize plugins , particularly flash... if you watch your task manager when you load chromium vs firefox chromium wins... then go visit a site with flash video or some other plugins and notice this "exe" chromium plugin app that shoots up to the top of the task manager using a boat load of memory to run the plugin that your using on the site... something in which firefox does not do. Time and time again firefox usually has the same rep.... it uses slightly more memory than some browser do when first launched ,,, but has better overall memory management and they don't use tricks like some other browser do hiding addtional memory usage under a different process name... now lets get to some of the other apps.. lubuntu is wonderful i absolutely love it and plan to setup a business around it but.... a few applications must change to be able to offer older machines a truly full desktop without sacrificing speed (at least not too much) first the penguins games and got to go... they are terrible and look horrible...... gnome-games with the data extras should be default lxscreenshot should be included as default get rid of mtpaint (its terrible) and use pinta as the default which is a truly nice simple programs (yea it pulls in some mono but its worth it) as for office software,,, abiword and gnumeric are ok but lets be honest if you want people to keep their lubuntu box and really use it and possibly do a full time switch they need to be able to get work done and school projects finished and such. If they can't really do that well they we leave it. its really that simple.,,, libreoffice must be installed with gtk support and tango icon set... if you want people to like and keep their lubuntu box this is a must (even though its heavy) as for music audacious has got to go... first its not that nice doesn't offer the things that people really want and it kinda runs crappy anyway.... i say replace it with exaile,,, its looks like a real music player/library it support ipods and other music players and has a nice set of features,,, simply install gstreamer fluendo to handle the mp3 and your good to go with a honest to god nice music player that makes sense and has features and support Would be nice to finally see the lubuntu software center makes its debut.. been using it a while its just keeps getting better.. also its time to release the lubuntu control center that is sitting in the ppa only one thing to change currently xterm needs to be installed for the sound control to work through the control center.... not sure if you can make it work with lxterminal or not lxfind should be installed by default and remove the chromium browser launch icon located in the application bar in the task bar and replace it with lxfind and then add the task manager icon next to lxfind.... thats a setup for the task bar that makes more sense while you at it also add a spacer after the speaker volume in the task bar shotwell should also be installed be default it actually doesn't use to many dependancies and it handles digital cameras well,,, which is another thing the OS should do if you truly want people to use it, stick with it and like it. last note add the pidgin plugins pack to the mix so pidgin can handle irc must better than way we don't have to worry about supplying and irc program not sure if this would be a good suggestion but maybe we should think about including gtkorphan -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Buntfu Linux Computers (https://launchpad.net/~buntfu) to each member of the Lubuntu team using the "Contact this team" link on the Lubuntu team page (https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-comms More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
