Replacements for ThunderBird and FireFox

Wed Dec 6 09:55:37 UTC 2006

wow, that was fast ... i clicked send and already 2 replies.

i think opera is a bad idea, i can't stand the browser and i don't think we
can package it on the distro cd because it isn't open source ... not sure
about the licensing on that.

-Adam

On 12/6/06, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While I will agree that firefox2 has become far more costly on resources
> than its predecessor, I'm not entirely sure a move to kazehakase is what we
> need. Anyone who would like to should install it and see what they think but
> I'm just a big fan of the user interface. Any other suggestions? ... perhaps
> a gnome based browser that might be easily ported to be gtk-only dependent?
>
> On the other hand .... sylpheed-claws has my vote to replace thunderbird,
> t-bird is just too fat for its own good these days.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 12/6/06, Wesley Hearn <gr33nn1nj4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
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> > I think FireFox and ThunderBird are too heavy of programs for Xubuntu so
> > I propose  that we switch to kazehakase and sylpheed-claws-gtk2
> > hereis there apt-cache show info
> >
> > - ----------------------
> > Package: kazehakase
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: universe/web
> > Installed-Size: 2148
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com >
> > Original-Maintainer: Hidetaka Iwai <tyuyu at debian.or.jp>
> > Architecture: i386
> > Version: 0.4.2-1
> > Provides: www-browser
> > Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcairo2 (>=
> > 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:
> > 4.1.1-17ubuntu1),
> > libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnutls13 (>=
> > 1.4.0-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libnspr4-0d,
> > libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.5), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libruby1.8 (>=
> > 1.8.4), libtasn1-3 (>= 0.3.4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2),
> > libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1,
> > libxul0d, zlib1g (>= 1: 1.2.1), ruby (>= 1.8.0), ruby (<< 1.9.0),
> > libgtk2-ruby, libgettext-ruby1.8                                                Recommends:
> > hyperestraier
> > Suggests: migemo
> > Conflicts: kazehakase-migemo
> > Filename: pool/universe/k/kazehakase/kazehakase_0.4.2-1_i386.deb
> > Size: 775700
> > MD5sum: a2cc767af24abeae46a84e5f953fd1da
> > SHA1: 738121ab391a593accd2fc89c6c3969811474a67
> > SHA256: 4f1a3c660908782f93c20067985a0c22034dfa923ca2211ffab993934e07772a
> > Description: gecko based web browser using GTK
> > Kazehakase is a web browser using Gecko as HTML rendering engine.
> > .
> > Kazehakase has toolbar with rss/rdf menus, rss/rdf viewer, normal
> > bookmarks,
> > search window for google.  These are to be available as plugins.
> > Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Origin: Ubuntu
> > - ---------------------------------------------
> > Package: sylpheed-claws-gtk2
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: universe/mail
> > Installed-Size: 2820
> > Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Original-Maintainer: Ricardo Mones < mones at debian.org>
> > Architecture: i386
> > Version: 2.6.0-1
> > Replaces: sylpheed-claws-gtk2-image-viewer (<= 1.9.6cvs1)
> > Provides: mail-reader, news-reader
> > Depends: libaspell15 (>= 0.60), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1 ), libcompfaceg1,
> > libetpan10 (>= 0.48-1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnomeprint2.2-0 (>=
> > 2.12.1), libgnomeprintui2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3),
> > libice6, libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.5), libpisock9,
> > libsm6, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8b-1)
> > Recommends: sylpheed-claws-gtk2-i18n, metamail, xfonts-100dpi |
> > xfonts-75dpi | xfonts-100dpi-transcoded | xfonts-75dpi-transcoded, aspell-en
> > | aspell-dictionary, sylpheed-claws-scripts
> > Suggests: sylpheed-claws-gtk2-doc (= 2.6.0-1)
> > Conflicts: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.9)
> > Filename:
> > pool/universe/s/sylpheed-claws-gtk2/sylpheed-claws-gtk2_2.6.0-1_i386.deb
> > Size: 1314016
> > MD5sum: b32d14d5dc61614d2813e466b9bffdc5
> > SHA1: 83fc70f17589a475ebe7c2a28e1c41a2c3d7f69d
> > SHA256: 495bbfa8e4853876ce5d55ed53f194fc0956941c64e0b4ed70bbcb37afc0315d
> > Description: Fast, lightweight and user-friendly GTK2 based email client
> > Sylpheed-Claws GTK2 is the GTK2 version of the Sylpheed-Claws
> > mail client, which is itself the extended version of the
> > Sylpheed mail client. It aims to have the features that
> > Sylpheed-Claws has and more, with a GTK2 interface.
> > It is also extensible using loadable plugins, which can provide
> > support for additional features, like other storage formats,
> > feeds reader, calendar management, mail filtering, etc.
> > Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Origin: Ubuntu
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> >
> > any ideas or other programs that would be good alternatives?
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