Idea for Lucid (and beyond..)

[Andrew Stormont]

>
> Also, nobody has any intentions of
>
adopting Pulse Audio into the Xubuntu system, right? ;)
>

I've always considered that a feature :)

2009/12/5 J. Anthony Limon <j at flippo.net>

> Hi team,
>
> I just thought I would open the door for some brainstorming in the area
> of Lucid and beyond! I have some thoughts I'd like to extend everyone's
> way.
>
>
> 1) gnome-app-install
>
> Do we really need it? Who really uses it? How stable is it anyways?
>
> I feel gnome-app-install does more harm than good in the XFce desktop.
> Firstly it does a poor job of representing the total software in the
> repositories. Secondly, we almost *always* send people to Synaptic or
> apt-get to install software. Thirdly, I've found it to be HORRIDLY
> unstable.
>
> On my system I've ---purge autoremove'd it. A nice side effect was that
> my XFce menu looks a lot nicer without that wide entry at the top. :)
>
> 2) gnome-system-monitor
>
> I know this app has some serious features that alternatives do not, but
> is consistently a source of problems and bugs, primarily in the area of
> super high CPU usage and memory leaks, ironic given the nature of the
> application.
>
> On my system I use a mixture of xfce4-taskmanager and htop, I'm not sure
> if this would be satisfactory on the majority of people's desktops but I
>  am of the opinion that GSM has to go.
>
> 3) Totem
>
> Is the plan to stick with Totem for Lucid? It's kind of stagnant issue
> but it's also a difficult one to address with the next release being LTS.
>
> 4) GDM
>
> This seems to be an issue entirely out of anyone's hands unless they
> want to try making one using xfce libs.
>
> This is about all I can think of right now, but I do know I am missing a
> couple things which I will bring up at another time. I feel this is a
> good start to a brainstorming. Also, nobody has any intentions of
> adopting Pulse Audio into the Xubuntu system, right? ;)
>
> - J
>
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