On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:06:28 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >From a very-humble user point of view: > > I use Libre Office + Gnumeric (Abiword can't convince me). As i read > recently, Libre Office is getting performance improvements, but the problem > is still the ram consumption vs the ram used by abiword (i use LO for writer > and slideshows, but gnumeric is a magnificient tool), LO is an option? It > could bring a slideshow editor to Lubuntu... Let individually decide but my > guess is that Lubuntu should remain with abiword & gnumeric for the concept. > Midori: in many ways it could be best than chromium, but as PCMAN said, it's > not stable at all . Try running Libre/open Office on a 160 MIB, 300MHz machine and I think you'll find it just becomes unpleasant. Abiword does everything I need of a word processor, and I install it on Ubuntu as Libre/Open Office is just cumbersome. As somebody who has had to sit through endless 'slide show' presentations I believe it may be one of the worst uses for a computer ever. I have Midori on one machine and keep trying it. It seems to take two steps forward then one back. It has a way to go before it is a real alternative to FF or Chromium, sadly. > Games: ace of penguins is faster than anything, but they're not "cool" at > all. Everybody i've shown this says something like "looks ugly, how can i > configure it?". There's nothing better around? Ace of Penquins is probably best described as functional ;) but, who needs 'looks' in card games anyway? There is however a set of icons being produced, slowly, for it. \o/ > PDF viewers: i'm with Rafael on this, Evince is the best choice there is > (besides, it can read a lot of formats, not only pdf ;) Evince does appear to be the most functional of PDF reader on Linux. > > xscreensaver makes my installations crash on every old computer i own, i > already said this on the mailing list: it's heavy and it consumes energy > displaying something fancy on the screen instead of just a black screen or > turn it off (clearly i don't like it...); but it locks the screen, so it's > necessary. I have nothing nice to say about screen-savers so will say nothing. > > xchat as i know is on discussion as i read recently... Pidgin would be the > option. I hate Pidgin and will install XChat if it isn't installed by default. I say stick with what we've got and lets get Lubuntu twiddled and polished. Remember when suggesting applications that the target is a couple of hundred MHz CPU and 128 MiB of RAM. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp