On the subject of alternatives for existing programs:
* Pidgin / Empathy: I think keeping Pidgin for now would be a good idea as Pidgin is a very stable and mature application. Although removing Pidgin and Ekiga and replacing both with Empathy would probably result in a few extra megabytes of free space for the LiveCD while retaining the existing features of multi-protocol IM, video chat, and VoIP from the default install. I don't IM or VoIP/video chat and haven't ever used any of these programs to communicate, so my opinion could possibly be misinformed or naive? ;)
* Abrowser / Arora / Midori / Other: This would be a good idea if Trisquel aimed to be a lightweight distro. Midori, I know, is a wonderful lightweight webkit-based browser that supports tabbed browsing, remembers sessions, and even custom scripts and add-ons. But the problem is that users in 2010 are going to expect,/em> FireFox, and are that much likely to give Trisquel an early rejection -- or simply replace it with IceCat -- if another browser is the default.
* Totem / VLC: VLC, because it does everything Totem is able to do (in a browser or out), and much, much more.
* Swfdec / Gnash: Swfdec; I've found it to have fewer compatibility issues, and it also doesn't require OpenGL to run. But even the latest Swfdec is unable to play many YouTube videos. For guaranteed YouTube playback, I also strongly suggest that Greasemonkey and these two scripts are included by default:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38074 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46219 _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
