> * 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? ;)
Ekiga is not in the default install, so replacing Pidgin with Empathy would require a little extra space, as the latter is bigger. The only reason for bringing up the discussion about those two is the "share desktop" feature in Empathy -that I've didn't test already- which looks like a very nice way to get help online. > * 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. As I discovered after suggesting it, Yelp (the help viewer) requires xulrunner to work, so using a non-xulrunner based browser would waste a lot of space. Probably Yelp can be compiled with webkit instead so it can be shared with Arora or Midori. By now we will just keep Abrowser. > * Totem / VLC: VLC, because it does everything Totem is able to do > (in a browser or out), and much, much more. Yep, VLC is nice, but has some downsides: it is a QT app, and that requires a lot of QT related stuff to be installed just for one app. There is not enough space. As minor downsides, it has less translations and it is not as easy to use as totem is. > * 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: I read somewere that the current Gnash version is better and that Swfdec project is not releasing updates, but when I tested both in 3.5 Swfdec still looked better. _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
