Dropping osmo from the default installation ?

[Gerald Marquardt]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Stephen Smally <eco.stefi at fastwebnet.it>wrote:

> 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<http://www.rainlendar.net/cms/index.php>
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> +1 for removing.
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