Dropping osmo from the default installation ?

[Stephen Smally]

Il 23/07/2012 09:20, 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) ha scritto:
> 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
> <mailto:jpxsat at gmail.com>>
>
>     2012/7/22 Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com <mailto: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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+1 for removing.