default applications for natty

[Vincent]

2011/1/8 Simon Steinbeiß <simon.steinbeiss at univie.ac.at>

> Wow, a lot has been said here since I wrote my email two days ago, I guess
> it will be hard to address all of your thoughts/inputs, so I'll focus on a
> few.
>
> Browser:
> The argument that chromium doesn't look integrated is only true for version
> <9, later versions are gtk-themeable and the theme I'm currently working on
> already themes chromium (it will basically look like FF does now). If
> wanted/needed I can provide screenshots.
>
>
I'd love to see some screenshots of that, because I'm currently running the
Chromium daily build and it doesn't look integrated at all (e.g. tabs look
really out of place).


> Two important points seem to be the updates and the larger package-size,
> the first one seeming more major to me. So if I understand the implications
> of what Micah wanted to say with this correctly it means that our default
> browser could break within a cycle via an update (which is pretty bad imo).
>
> I assume (I have not really checked) and have heard several times that
> chromium uses less memory than FF, it definitely feels snappier.
>
> All in all personally I vote for sticking to FF unless the problematic
> updates can be prevented/solved somehow.
>
>
> Email:
> I think that the average user will be able to handle either Thunderbird or
> Claws. While it's true that Claws' gui is a bit cluttered, it also bears a
> lot of features/plugins for power-users.
> If we find out that we can get rid of xulrunner (and maybe even save some
> megabytes on the package-size) by removing Thunderbird as well I vote for
> going with Claws.
>
>
> Music:
> I personally can't say that I like Exaile. I've been working on the above
> mentioned gmusicbrowser for a while now, upstream is very responsive and
> cooperative. The only issues I can see now are that it doesn't support
> webradio (yet) and iPod-support is also unavailable. Its package-size is
> also pretty small (2mb smaller than Exaile), here's a link to the version I
> maintain (you can also test it via the ppa):
> http://shimmerproject.org/projects/shimmer-for-gmusicbrowser/
>
>
>
> It would be nice if any of you have the time (unfortunately I don't
> currently) to set up a wiki-page to collect and order the most important
> arguments brought up in this discussion. Mailinglists are nice because it
> feels a lot more responsive than commonly edited wiki-pages, but for
> structuring the arguments it would be helpful.
>
> Simon
>
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Vincent
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