Slideshow changes ?

[Aere Greenway]

On 01/26/2013 03:13 AM, Tracer wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Julien Lavergne
>> Sent: 01/25/13 10:34 PM
>> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Slideshow changes ?
>> Please, if you have ideas about it, share them with us, so we can see
>> what we can include in the next slideshow.
>
> Answer : An OFF-button & a note.
>
> It took me a lot of googling to figure out why lubuntu wasn't installing
> in my machine ( AMD 2400+ ) and it turned out I had to disable slideshow
> And it's worked fine after I did that. -Tracey
>
All:

Since a lot of people gravitate toward Lubuntu because their machines 
are not capable of running Ubuntu and Kubuntu well (because of lack of 
memory, and/or processor speed), I think it would be a good idea to have 
an option of not doing the slide show.

Perhaps, even better, would be for the installer to see if there is 
enough memory available to run it, and not load it in if there wasn't, 
substituting a single picture (possibly the last slide of the show).

But if it couldn't be done by the installer itself, at least giving the 
user the option of skipping it if their machine doesn't have a lot of 
memory would be a good idea.

I worry that whether the slide-show is done or not, it occupies space in 
the installer, so the slide show would have to be something that is 
loaded by the installer if the slide-show is selected.  This worry is 
supported by the fact to disable the slide-show, I had to actually 
remove the slide-show package.

In the live CD version, that slide-show is using-up memory space even by 
its existence in the RAM file-system.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere