Dropping osmo from the default installation ?

[神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)]

We can't offer the same integration as a Gnome based setup. Sylpheed can't
handle Google / Yahoo acocunts or contacts (that's I've changed to Claws
Mail), XPad can't sync cloud notes (Google, Evernote, Tomboy...), Osmo
can't access Google Calendar, etc. We need mail and takeing notes, but all
users I see happily "Lubunted" don't use Osmo.

+1 for removing Osmo.

紳癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna)
Lubuntu Artork Team



2012/7/23 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat at gmail.com>

> 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
>
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