[Lubuntu-desktop] Experiment: Merge LXSession/LXSessionEdit/LXPolkit and make them a single package.
Hi all, To simpify LXDE, I did some experiment last night. Since LXSession and LXSession Edit actually are used together, I merged them and make them the same package. Though LXSession Edit is originally designed to be desktop independent and can work under other DEs, I found no real use case of this. To ease the maintaince, I moved LXSession Edit into LXsession so they will have concurrent update and there will no longer be any version mismatch between these two. For LXPolkit, since udisks and other services requires a proper PolicyKit agent, a Polkit agent is a must-have for modern desktop environment. The authentication agent runs on session startup and terminates when the session terminates. It has the same lifespan as the desktop session. So to avoid unnecessary daemons, I merged PolicyKit with LXSession. Now the PolicyKit agent is built-into LXSession and runs in the same process. So no additional authentication agents, such as policykit-gnome or lxpolkit need to be installed. This decreased number of daemons and packages. Some may argue that session manager should not be mixed with other stuff. This is true most of the times. However the rationale behind this move is quite simple. These daemons are all essential parts of the DE. They have completely the same lifespan and they should work together. They are all small and simple. So putting them in one single daemon should be better than running many separate daemons in terms of resource usage and efficiency. In addition, it will be easier for upstream developer and packager to maintain. To sum up, these three packages became one single LXSession package now and the policykit agent runs in the process of lxsession rather than as a separate daemon. For those who still missed policykit-gnome and want to use it, try lxsession --disable-polkit to disable the built-in policykit agent and to run your own instead. It's not the final decision and it's put in a branch called "integration". git://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxde/lxsession branch "integration" Please test and give some comments. Thanks. ___ 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
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu-Desktop] Integrate Catfish?
> > What is the resource usage? What is the installed size of it + it's deps? Suggested : strigi-daemon doodle tracker beagle Recommended : slocate Will be installed: catfish (32,3 ko) Installed, is 393 ko. For me catfish requires 22MB Ram to run (+- while it's searching). I think that is a little elevated BUT Lubuntu doesn't have anything that can search files and IMHO it's something needed, and besides it's not an app that will run forever: people will search and find and that's it for catfish. The app it's behaving well here on a pentium 3 (1000mhz). Plus, since Xubuntu uses it too, maybe in the near future a team "l+x*ubuntu" could help to improve it... just ideas! -- jpxsat ___ 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
[Lubuntu-desktop] [Lubuntu-Desktop] Integrate Catfish?
Been trying catfish for some days, it's not fully operational (opening folders with "go to") but lubuntu needs an app like this. Xubuntu use this: why not Lubuntu too? -- jpxsat ___ 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
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About GPicView
A Debian Developer (Kanru Chen) said that viewnior uses modified gtkimageview which he wants to get rid of and depend on libgtkimageview0 package instead. Currently, I am claiming this package in Debian and struggle to put it on Debian. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:00 PM, PCMan wrote: > Hi everyone, > As the original author and prior maintainer of GPicView, I'd like to ask for > some comments from users and other developers. Since I no longer have the > time to maintain GPicView and it still has many problems. I consider > dropping GPicView in LXDE and replace it with a better one. > Viewnior is a lightweight and feature-rich image viewer which I think is > better than gpicview and it also meets the goals of LXDE. > http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/ > It has very good balance between resource usage and feature set. Please give > it some tests and gave me some feedback. > I'd suggest replacing GPicView with Viewnior in LXDE. Any objections? > > ___ > 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 > > -- Yao Wei ___ 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
