Dropping osmo from the default installation ?

[Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset]

2012/7/22 Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently, osmo is installed by default to provide more advanced
> features for calendar and contacts. However, there is several problems
> with it :
> - It takes a huge space on the CD, because it's use the GTK2 version of
> webkit (and it's the only one on Lubuntu ISO to use it). I tried to
> migrate it to GTK3 to get rid of this depend, but it's not as trivial as
> I imagined.
> - There is 0 integration with other applications (like sylpheed for
> contacts)
>
> Also, currently, most of the features are covered by xpad for notes,
> sylpheed for the contacts, and the lxpanel applet for calendar (without
> the notes by date). So, I wondered if it's enough to keep an additional
> program, for a few uses cases, when we can add more languages support by
> default instead.
>
> I'm interested to know if people actually use osmo, and how they use it.
> If no important use cases are discovered, I propose to just remove it by
> default (it will be always available on the repositories).
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
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Currently there are a couple of machines running Lubuntu at the
office, and Osmo was inmediately removed from the system.
The lack of integration it's what hurts the most imho. Plus, if there
are computational problems with it, I don't see the use of keeping
that app on the default install: I've never seen anyone using it.
Instead may I suggest (as a very-future project) that the lxpanel
calendar applet would be extended to work similar as Rainlendar (1)?

1: http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php

-- jpxsat