On Dec 1, 2012 4:29 PM, "Santiago Roland" <<a href="mailto:sroland@lavabit.com">sroland@lavabit.com</a>> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A couple of things in my opinion that should be considered in future > Xubuntu releases > > 1) VLC as default video player. In my experience, it is the only video > player that never refused to reproduce a single video. The only time > it failed was because the file was corrupted. I mean, any operating > system must ship with a decent video player and Parole does not > fulfill that. Parole get sucked for several seconds with any video > MP4, AVI, etc and that is very annoying. > > 2) Libreoffice must be considered if decent compatibility is desired. > It is a complete office suite that cannot be compared to > abiword+gnumeric. Maybe there should be a minimal Xubuntu iso without > this things, but for the everyday life, this things must be out of the box > > 3) Xubuntu should ship with a decent light color theme, not a dark > one. It is demonstrated even with surveys that darker themes are > harder to read. I pointed to some links a while ago, that i think > nobody checked out. It's better for reading, it treats the eye pupil > dilatation better and that it's well known by website designers. Every > dark theme has applications that show very poor font contrast and even > icon contrast. XFCE used to come with light color theme by default, > and that should be restored again, maybe choosing theme could be > implemented during installation? Default white, and if you want to > your machine looks like FBI ones, change theme later. And the reason > is that the people that like to tune up themes is more likely to have > some skills the people that simply use the machine as is. > > 4) The Cairo-like toolbar should be avoided, is the intention to look > like macOS? XFCE looks already fine with only one toolbar, up or > down... cairo? leave that for people that want to tune up the appearence. > > 5) Music player should be Banshee by default, or some player that show > album art, maybe gmusicbrowser with a less complicated layout. maybe > emulate banshee layout with gmusicbrowser? > > 6) definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely need to improve GTK3 > support. The are NO themes that fully support GTK3? if i install apps, > like evolution for email or USC or update manager i cannot use > Clearlooks! it completely breaks the appearence for those apps. This > is very wrong. maybe we can blame GTK imposition, but there has to be > more supported GTK3 themes like Clearlooks and such. Not Adwaita, nor > other theme fix this, windows look very different if they are gtk2 or > gtk3. > > 7) what if Xubuntu ships larger that a CD? i installed Xubuntu in a P3 > 750 and i barely can navigate through webpages, the cpu is not enough > for web browsing. Leave that for the Xubuntu minimal version.... > Xubuntu should hit high and compete with other desktops environments, > it can and it is better in so many aspects. > > 8) Enable tabs in thunar, a decrypt file plugin, add the ability to > show "properties" for several selected folders and add the ability to > correctly eject usb pendrives because actually can no do that. > Otherwise nautilus is needed. Or, change to nautilus default, but this > is a bit insane and in this point i would use ubuntu then. > > Regards! 2 quick facts... -vlc can't be included by default due to licensing -the "cario like" dock is just an xfce panel and requires no extra packages or overhead. holstein > > > - -- > - - -- > Santiago Roland.- > - ------------------------------------ > Observatorio Astronómico Los Molinos > IAU CODE 844 - Montevideo, Uruguay > OALM - DICYT - MEC > - ------------------------------------ > openPGP key: 04DF8076 > <a href="http://is.gd/jKuIhW">http://is.gd/jKuIhW</a> > - ------------------------------------ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - <a href="http://www.enigmail.net/">http://www.enigmail.net/</a> > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQunZ1AAoJEJ6hX3UE34B22K8P+wahwWhXewqJepPq0RSfmRcv > imHWAgg//vf2BTDf4dy/gvI5dFtsqW5w1C2u35KS5unwH4/det4iKsnyylEm5pSZ > kHEGV36nK8uaEfIkw8K7zq1mG/yhSjqRNe7C+NUyldpE6zbuelBoAjEsNvs8ua8b > OF4ru54I/cnPw8zvBtM+MXO37wEkvh8CXNeM57zCsdSi1llZGRL/yQQvtW/KKuna > VDEiD5HA/6YQdCnmNLlVmTgPMtX4eCsg4fXEznyPkqSfu39hQdhWLluqfrwn1uib > 8Sg6Zr8zWEhkU4QehslZ82lKJo9kuBEt+me72OP2oa9Y6xvHXp8qR0SqhTnXLh9a > sslBmPf32TDEpvKAyFhdp3AIpiTwgHQT2siXVHxkmV3xJFp2FFby7ei6wvMKV5x1 > Om5TocNV9rFHlPz7EAbCaysXhO8E+pSndqE4fpp/Y+OV2jA7b8vfmn6t9vVThkY0 > isPcDUVlumtynl8cYOY7sy+O6rYSPyrWrnTP53311PBF++Q9r3Q1funNV7Ggrbt0 > 8AoS/f4/tnWX4BgbGYTUW6GIBDBlDzJhc/NbL6vI/f6arfMFQYXKo1Z0WGaJ4pQb > ZdxN3b2srwKq98UN2XWjhy7WtTzEyBLxZRDiZMrI8CDVW4slwDTwI8uv6qUFAl/H > hOC4CFes8Iqk6We92Nss > =FALz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a>