On 30 April 2012 04:03, Sebastian <[email protected]> wrote: > Donald Gimp is one of those packages that I think would be ok to remove from > the Live CD's, if something will replace it at least to some extent such as > Shotwell.
Well that is de specific, yes gimp is written in gtk, but it is almost independent in my mind from GNOME. I still feel that it is a rather specialist programme to have. > > What's Hugin? Hugin is for panorama's, and while have the kipi-plugin for gwenview/digikam is nice, I don't feel that it merits the weight of hugin. > > On 29/04/12, David W. Hodgins: > >> Looking at the list, the first one I would consider removing is >> inkscape. I'ts large, a leaf package, and doesn't look like >> something that a lot of people would use. > > > As for Inkscape I think that's a good idea to remove. > I agree with this, inkscape really is something specialist. > On 29/04/12, Sander Lepik: > >> What about LibreOffice? LiveCD is mostly for testing. And LO doesn't >> change much in time. Do we really need to keep it on LiveCDs? Maybe some >> smaller alternative for it? Calligra for example? We would save a lot of >> space. >> > > As for LibreOffice I think that should stay on the CD, because certain users > will want to use that on the CD. In fact recently someone from my LUG tried > out Mageia 1 Gnome and KDE, from Live CD's, and trying out LibreOffice was > part of the Mageia 1 review that was sent to the LUG mailing list. I assume > they tried LibreOffice from Live CD. > > Here's a reason why I think LibreOffice should stay on the CD's of Mageia > for probably many releases to come: > http://blog.mageia.org/en/2010/11/14/mageia-supports-libreoffice/ Yes since > Mageia is giving LibreOffice full official support, and to do so, it has to > be on the Live CD's, in my opinion. Libreoffice should stay, when my hard disk failed, this allowed me to still complete my work while waiting for a new on to arrive. > > Calligra uses Qt so I guess that would mean the Gnome Live CD would require > Qt installed on it, to run it, so I guess as a result that's out. Unless > the KDE and Gnome versions start having some differences when it comes to > additional software. > > There are apps that could be used together to replace LibreOffice for many > tasks, such as Abiword and Gnumeric, and so on.
