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[David Sugar <david.sugar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ultimately I think mplayer is a problem, at least from the perspective
of being an "official" variant, and especially with respect to codecs.
That being said, I am also aware many will choose to install mplayer if
it's not in the default install, as I am aware many use medibuntu repos.

Leszek Lesner wrote:
> Here a technical preview of a LXDE based Ubuntu (Lubuntu proposed) Desktop based on Karmic Koala. 
> 
> Software included :
> Kernel 2.6.32-7 (lucid) 
> PCManFM 0.5.2 (bugfixed release) 
> gnome-mplayer (+ codecs) 
> aqualung
> xfburn (burning app)
> claws-mail (mail client)
> chromium-browser (build 4.0.226) (webbrowser)
> people 0.2 (manage vcards)
> orage (manage vcal) 
> gnome-alsamixer (audiomixer app) 
> OpenOffice 3.1 (fitts on cd but maybe too memory intensive, especially for 128 MB RAM users) 
> WICD to manage networks
> gigolo (as networkmanager and computer icon on the desktop to launch and mount drives [convenience for windows switcher] ) 
> 
> 
> I changed some config files of openbox to support FN-Keys for some netbooks (so Volume up and down should work). Included is also a custom theme and a LXDE Menu button. 
> 
> Some new hotkeys:
> CTRL+ALT+T will now launch a new Terminal window
> CTRL+ALT+D will now launch a new filemanager window (SUPER + D will hide all windows and show the desktop) 
> 
> Some apps like network-manager , gnome-power-manager, xfce4-volumed that use the new notify-osd system are fine but seem to eat to much memory so I removed them for now and put in some replacements, like wicd and a volume.sh script. 
> I also added those apps from the app proposel page that seem to do best in my opinion. 
> See : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Applications
> The CDRigBy from the other features would be nice to include, but the website seems to be down. 
> More on Lubuntu : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu
> How to get involved: http://blog.lxde.org/?p=562
> 
> The obligatory screenshots:
> xsplash: http://ubuntu-pics.de/bild/33545/2009_12_08_201127_1280x800_scrot_iYt3XS.png
> desktop: http://ubuntu-pics.de/bild/33546/2009_12_08_201146_1280x800_scrot_utIQ4J.png
> 
> Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2351433/lx-ultra-remix.iso
> MD5: 29811ba871d3a4088de8f71ac1a7948b lx-ultra-remix.iso
> 
> Note: This is only a testing version and is not intent to run on a productive machine. Virtualbox seems to have problems loading the vboxvideo driver thats not avaiable. Simply edit the xorg.conf and try to load it with the vesa driver. 
> 
> Comments and feedback are appreciated :)
> 
> PS: I will put the artwork onto the lucid incoming artwork very soon: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork/Incoming/Lucid
> aswell as the openbox configuration file/patch for the added hotkeys.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Leszek
> 
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