> Replace our Web Browser with IceCat. It's true that IceCat is > packaged incorrectly and > wastes space, but maintaining and bug-fixing Web Browser is far too > much of a time and effort > drain for a project of Trisquel's size.
Seriously, IceCat and Abrowser are just the same! They are *not* forks of Firefox, both Giuseppe Scrivano and I just take the original code, and we apply the smallest set of changes we can come with. We throw the old code away on every release (and keep the patch). Also, the properly packaged Abrowser is already in the repository. > Replace Rhythmbox with Banshee. Both programs are wonderful, and > quite similar, > but Banshee is more feature-rich and approaches Amarok in its > functionality. Banshee is mono based, and we do not include mono. Exaile, OTOH is very nice and small. But the translation is poor. That happens with a lot of packages if you choose not to use the Ubuntu default. > Why is Moovida installed by default? I don't think a > large percentage of our users > look for a remote-controlled media center. Perhaps it should be > removed to free up > space? I think it is a stunning program, very catchy and cool. It might attract new users. And you can use the keyboard with it (as I do). > Replace GIMP (an advanced image editor) with XPaint or MTPaint > (basic image editors) to free up space. We should do it, but by now it won't work right. The language packages already include all the gimp translations and manuals (both are huge), and removing the actual package would be a bigger waste than leaving it. There are plans to replace it with something smaller in Ubuntu, we will follow them in this. > > Problems found with Web Browser: > > Many YouTube videos do not and WILL NOT work in either swfdec or > Gnash until Greasemonkey and these two scripts are installed by > default: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38074 and > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/46219 Including those preinstalled is not easy to do. But we are aware of the problem. > “Get Extensions”, “Get Plugins” and “Get Themes” links under > addons link to a list > that is uselessly incomplete. My user privelages don't include the > ability to edit > and improve this list (and I would if I could!). Now they do. :) Until this list > gets sufficiently > populated, it should link here: > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/addons.html This list links back to addons.mozilla.org for a lot of the addons, rendering it pointless. That's why we started a new list that serves the files (source included) by itself. But we need hands to fill it. > An XML parsing error message comes up when I click “About Web > Browser”. This is fixed already. > > -Minor/aesthetic suggestions: > > "PalmOS devices” should be hidden from System → Preferences, which > already > has too many entries. PalmOS devices are now legacy hardware and very > few people use > one. That was done in the current development image. > The “Add/Remove Applications” item should be put back on the main > Menu Bar, > instead of appearing under System → Administration. Fixed. > At 42 pixels wide, the panel is too large. 34 pixels is a better > width. The Trash icon should appear at the bottom-right corner of the > desktop by default. With 42 pixels the window list is two rows high, saving space. > A Terminal icon should be placed in the bottom-left of the panel > next to the icon > for. No way. If we need the terminal that bad, then we better start all over. > Things are more likely to malfunction in a Free distro Why? >, so > quick one-click > access to the terminal is good for userfriendliness. You can zero-click access your terminal anytime by pressing ctrl+alt+f1. > USB startup disk creator should not feature the Ubuntu icon > (already mentioned). Yes, we are on it. _______________________________________________ Trisquel-users mailing list [email protected] http://listas.trisquel.info/mailman/listinfo/trisquel-users
