<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adi Roiban</b> <<a href="mailto:adi@roiban.ro">adi@roiban.ro</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Today I tried Xubuntu 7.10 and I want to thank you for this beautiful<br>release. The integration of network-manager and brasero is great.<br><br>Below is a list of questions and remark on the current xubuntu release
<br>that I noticed while installing xubuntu.<br><br>Where is the launchpad project page for Xubuntu or should I report bug<br>on specific packages from Ubuntu project?</blockquote><div><br>Just on the packages from Ubuntu, since we use the same repo's.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wrong file associating for image files "png,jpg, JPG" with GIMP.</blockquote>
<div><br>I had them associated with Thunderbird, which is even more odd. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Gthumb is more friendly than gqview. Gthumb should be the default
<br>application for handling images.</blockquote><div><br>Gthumb was decided against because it was slower. Perhaps it would be reconsidered for future releases though, I don't know exactly how much slower it is.<br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Sticky and shade should not make the default settings.</blockquote><div><br>Why? <br></div>
<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Transmission should be installed by default for bittorrent downloads.</blockquote><div><br>
BitTorrent downloads are not something you need by default IMHO. The only use cases are downloading illegal music, or downloading legal music (from e.g. <a href="http://Jamendo.com">Jamendo.com</a>) and CD images of OS's, and perhaps some minor use cases. The first one should not be supported of course, and the second one is more something advanced users would do.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The user home folder should have some default folders like Music,<br>Documents, Download, Movies.
</blockquote><div><br>That gives issues with localization. There was a <a href="http://freedesktop.org">freedesktop.org</a> standard but I guess it's a job for Xfce to implement that. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Places should be disabled by default. </blockquote><div><br>It is. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Setting and System should be
<br>moved from Application menu into a different "System" menu, must like<br>gnome.</blockquote><div><br>I suppose that would take quite an effort, but I also don't really see the use of it. Settings are something you set once and then don't really touch that often, and System is only something administrators need. That means that, when a user is not the administrator and has all his settings set, there is a redundant menu on the panel taking up space.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As a general rule I think that Xubuntu should try to keep similarities<br>with Ubuntu. In this case users of both versions could help each other
<br>and be more producetive when they switch systems.<br><br>24 pixel is a fair value for panel size. Trash applet is greater than 24 pixels.</blockquote><div><br>I agree that the panels are quite wide now by default. I didn't really use to care but then I ran Xubuntu using an 800x600 screen resolution and then it takes up lots of space.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">All gnome system tools applications are great, but totem is not a good pick.<br>
When playing " Experience <a href="http://ubuntu.org">ubuntu.org</a>" totem memory usage is 18MB and<br>with mplayer only 4MB.</blockquote><div><br>Mplayer cannot be shipped by default because it contains restricted codecs that are illegal to ship by default in some countries. Same goes for VLC.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Also Thunderbird is using much more memory than Claws mail.</blockquote><div><br>
Claws mail was decided against because (IIRC) it was too user-unfriendly but especially because it was not maintained in the Ubuntu repo. Not sure if that's still the case. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Audacious is not installed by default?</blockquote><div><br>No. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The grub menu entries are named "Ubuntu
7.10" and not Xubuntu.<br>system-monitor is also displaying "Ubuntu" as the system name.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, that is indeed confusing. Not sure if it is possible to fix though. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
--<br>Adi Roiban<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Best,<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Vincent