Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Intersting Article

2010-03-09 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Yes. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Andrew Woodhead < andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't contest the results but can someone explain how a lighter DE uses > less power? Is it because the CPU is used less so takes less juice? > Nice article though. KDE is really bloated and the K

[Lubuntu-desktop] [Bug 420513] Site Recommendation: Bill White for Texas

2010-03-05 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Hello, As Texas' next Governor, Bill White will challenge Texans to lead, not leave, the United States. Our state deserves leaders who can bring people together and move our state forward. As Mayor of Houston, Bill was twice re-elected with margins averaging 88% of the vote. He earned the trust o

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Notes

2010-02-28 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
+1 2010/2/28 神癒礁湖 > Another suggestion. It would be great to have a notes applications, like > Tomboy, bu without its resource hungry. So I think XPAD would be great. What > do you think? > > > > > > > > ___ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~l

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Colourchange?

2010-02-17 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
+1 4 Blue. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Sylkis wrote: > I still like blue better. for me it doesn't really matter that there > are othes blue distros, it's just a good looking colour and I gues > everything's aesthetical with it, unlike with green imo. I mea, it is > possible to make sth loo

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] New testing ISO 20100215

2010-02-15 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
This is shaping up very very well. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Steve wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:13:19 -, Julien Lavergne > wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I just created a new testing ISO. This is not an Alpha, but just a >> snapshot of the current work to be able to test more the new featu

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] New testing ISO 20100215

2010-02-14 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Alright! Thanks mate. On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > I just created a new testing ISO. This is not an Alpha, but just a > snapshot of the current work to be able to test more the new features. > Like others Alpha, you should be aware that it's not considered st

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Last changes to applications installed by default

2010-02-13 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Fantastic! Thank you. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote: > Hi, > > First, I would like to thanks all people for their feedbacks. > Also, I know people will be disagree about some choices, but we can't > make all people agreed :) Remember that the goal is to provide a > distr

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] IRC meeting : Sunday 14 February 15:00 UTC

2010-02-10 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Doug , Honestly dude wouldn't you rather "Celebrate" the holiday? Yea me to...lol. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Douglas Stanley wrote: > This is also St. Valentines day here in the states. Some of us (like > my self) may not be able to make > it due to the "wife getting pissed at me for spend

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Browsers comparison on slow machine

2010-02-10 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I agree , Also Chrome seems to handle web services better and the addons are going to be cross platform for the most part. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, wrote: > Hey if chromium is pulling those types of low numbers then there is no > question any ram saved on an old pute is a life line.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Ubucompilator

2010-01-03 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Sorry dude but I don't see any reason why Lubuntu would need a compiler unless the user decided to use one , But thanks for the heads up , nice prog. Cheers. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:58 AM, gusions wrote: > Hi i will talk about a new software: Ubucompilator (lubucompilator for > lxde user)! > >

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] lubuntu desktop image?

2009-12-11 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
You can also command line install from the mini.iso and then grab the meta packages from launchpad , that's the most up to date way of doing it as of now. afaik there's no official test iso right now. Cheers. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Zoltan Matlak wrote: > Hi all, > > There has been lot

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Tested on MSI Wind U100

2009-12-10 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I agree with David. Also anyone who is performing these highly specialized installations is certainly going to have the knowledge required to open the command line and "sudo apt-get whatever gui or lack thereof" he/she wants. n Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM, David Sugar wrote: > I actually was no

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Congrats!

2009-09-14 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
He probably just installed via command line. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Adam Gonnerman wrote: > Sorry. Duh. Of course I meant "nowhere near ready." > > Adam Gonnerman > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Adam Gonnerman > wrote: > >> I think it's generally understood that Lubuntu is n

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Preferred Lubuntu install instructions?

2009-09-13 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Right now you can just perform a command line installation and then add the Lxde packages On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mike Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > I know you can throw LXDE on an Ubuntu a million different ways but > what is the preferred method? Should this be used as a reference: > > h

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Bug 420513] Re: [needs packaging] lubuntu desktop meta

2009-09-04 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Scott , We are all grown folks and we also understand that David Sugar is more or less the boss here , There will be no foul play. Now let's be positive and congratulate everyone on a job well done and wish everyone a Fantastic week end of whatever tickles your fancy! Cheers folks! It's POETS.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] [Bug 420513] Re: [needs packaging] lubuntu desktop meta

2009-08-30 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I agree with Martin-Éric Racine and thanks for the patch as well , Cheers. 2009/8/30 Martin-Éric Racine > Looking at what the resulting lubuntu-desktop package tries to pull: > > 1) sysinfo -- As this pulls the whole MONO framework along, I contend > that the inclusion of this is contrary to the

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Project Q's

2009-07-08 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
at 7:28 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/7/8 Dallas Wiebelhaus : > > The U-Lite Creator Shae Smittle is on board for this endeavor: > > > > http://u-lite.org/content/status-updates > > I know. He told me about this product and this list. He's helping you > out, givin

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Project Q's

2009-07-07 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
The U-Lite Creator Shae Smittle is on board for this endeavor: http://u-lite.org/content/status-updates You guys should relax , these things take a while and everyone is busy , Things are progressing at individual levels right now so that once everyone gets together for some real progress we will

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu Project Q's

2009-07-07 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
It may Also benefit you to read what's already in place: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Specs/UbuntuLxdeDesktop http://www.lxde.org/ https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/mobile-karmic-lxde-ubuntu-desktop On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:49 PM, David Sugar wrote: >

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Estimate on test-iso

2009-07-06 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I gathered from here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/mobile-karmic-lxde-ubuntu-desktop After the next IRC meeting , in the 2 week range , excluding the Holiday I'm sure. On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM, jon york wrote: > Hi Guys and Gals, > > just wondering if we could have an

[Lubuntu-desktop] Personal testing.

2009-07-03 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I have both successfully built both a "Full featured" Desktop and a "Minimalist Base install" but not without issues. First being native network browsing , Pcfileman is unable to do this without manually mounting the shares via the CLI. Maybe a script master could work something up? Second being

[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-07-01 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dallas Wiebelhaus Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow) To: David Sugar I'm going to back off for a little bit and see how things pan out , I'll continue to

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Give me a few days (as the work week is here) And I can get something ready that we can pass around. That is with the go ahead from the people running this thing , I was told on IRC that they were still working on something before releasing an ISO , But in any case now or later I'm willing to do th

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Stabilized without hiccups at 128mb ram , that's without youtube lagging out , you can go lower no doubt. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Dallas Wiebelhaus wrote: > By the way , Chrome fits in like it's native and is running hella fast on > this DE on my test box. I'm a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
By the way , Chrome fits in like it's native and is running hella fast on this DE on my test box. I'm about to crank the ram down and see how low I can get. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Woodhead < andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is kinda surplus, the system is still ub

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] U-Lite

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Hey! That's great no need for details if they are private I just wanted to make sure by getting involved there was not going to be any toes being stepped on. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:16 PM, C David Rigby wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:46 -0500, Dallas Wiebelhaus wrote: > > For

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] U-Lite

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
> > We are very happy that Shae of U-lite is also a member of lubuntu. > > -- Mario > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Dallas Wiebelhaus > wrote: > > For some reason I had forgotten that U-Lite was using LXDE , I thought > they > > were using XFCE , maybe becaus

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] I think it is important to....

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I just threw together with LXDE and Ubuntu base for experimentation and abiword does run much better then openoffice on this DE it seems , I'm sure others will perform their own tests but I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm testing some things , like some of the idea's that were suggested t

[Lubuntu-desktop] U-Lite

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
For some reason I had forgotten that U-Lite was using LXDE , I thought they were using XFCE , maybe because of the recent alpha screenshots. I just want to make sure that the Lubuntu people are Aware of U-Lite are these two projects related or completely separate? http://u-lite.org/ _

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
e just > isn't suitable but will be accessible via reops if you must install it. I > personally only use abiword and know a great many users who have the entire > suite installed and only use the writer. Its laughable. > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Dallas Wiebelhaus

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I agree Abiword is so incredibly fast and small and if someone has not tried it they should give it a spin , it's a brilliant little application! I could foresee someone adding openoffice if they needed that extra functionality but for simple out of the box word processing in a small efficient quic

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
that make it a viable > solution as a media player? > > I am looking more into it... > > Adam > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Dallas Wiebelhaus > wrote: > >> Also we could learn a allot from the puppy project they have already >> banged out years of

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Good eye there David! On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, David Sugar wrote: > Related to this question is what to do with what is currently the > separate lxde blueprint in Launchpad: > > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/mobile-karmic-lxde-ubuntu-desktop > > I would be happy to see a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Also we could learn a allot from the puppy project they have already banged out years of learning the hardway! And today they have the quintessential light weight desktop of out of the box that can run on anything after a 486. On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Ed Hewitt wrote: > I think we should

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Forum

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
Thanks! On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:16 PM, jon york wrote: > Hi guys > > here is the forum location, just a quick and free forum for us, I am a > webmaster, and own my own host, so we can discuss that later when we > actually have a beta version to release to public, and we are ready to > submit

[Lubuntu-desktop] (no subject)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
I vote go small , if someone wants songbird or Firefox or liferea or pidgin let them fetch it. ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Lubuntu could end up like Xubuntu (Heavy & Slow)

2009-06-29 Thread Dallas Wiebelhaus
x27;t think anyone has to worry about something missing because the people that would be drawn to Lubuntu would certinaly be savvy enough to fetch it for themselves. What's good isn't always golden , I agree with the minilmist idea that Ed Hewitt proposed here. Cheers!. Dallas Wiebelha