Dropping osmo from the default installation ?

[yagga.yo]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:48:51 -0400
Gerald Marquardt <geraldrube1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> >>
> >>     -- jpxsat
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> >>
> > +1 for removing.
> >
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> Dittos for removal
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-- 
yagga.yo <yagga.ya at zoho.com>

no use for that. but sylpheed could use some improval. 
osmo out