-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:04:42 +0300 "Jani Monoses" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > The WM for Ubuntu-Lite is IceWM. Would it be worth adding this to > > Xubuntu? Certainly not to replace XFCE, but as a lighter alternative. > > I'm presuming there would be enough room on the cd for both; not sure > > how we could handle choosing Ice over XFCE during installation. > > > > Yes, this I was thinking aloud about during Dapper as well, but noone > stepped up to > help out with IceWM or Fluxbox so it dit not get done. > It is understandable that Xfce is too heavy for some even lower powered hw > and having > something like feather/puppy + ubuntu repos would be a nice addition. > > It needs to be thought of and acted on early in the edgy cycle though to > get enough time for thinking > of installation method changes, promotions to main, integration and > testing. It will not take up much of my resources because someone will > have to take over part of this work. > As for Cd space Ice/fluxbox are very light, that is not a concern. > > In the past I have contacted the person maintaining the ubuntu/fluxbox > howto and indirectly the ubuntu lite > developers without being answered. Now I am asking again, if anyone is > interested in getting these desktops piggybacked over xubuntu let's start > talking early to not miss edgy. An entirely new CD w/o Xfce is conceivable > as well, so it is only the lightweight desktop and a very small image, but > that is a lot more effort both for those undertaking it > and for the canonical people building the CDs as it's a new project > (time/hd space/bandwidth/new code), so I'd say > for now let's think about them as bonus tracks on the Xubuntu CD :) > > The main thing needed here would be getting these wm's and their core apps > updodate with upstream and debian, > and make a small metapackage for them and get them on CD. > > We cannot make too fine grained package selections and too many > metapackages as it would be overkill. > Instead the main advantage is getting them on CD w/o need for net access > if someone want to try them out, > and getting them showcased on the liveCD. > > So who's interested? Hi Jani, I'm interested. Can we update to version 1.2.26 at the same time we promote Icewm from Universe --> Main? I'm assuming it would need to be in main to be included on the CD. Regards, Myles - -- Software uses US measurements, but the OS is in metric... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhFQZf8E1+O/Jq5YRAoBKAKC5zX6icDm50H9ed6FQjAiVub6v9wCdGGQL d0hWmickrim9TBl+3PtbpVE= =+MVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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