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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Ok, 

here now I am suggestiong using gnome-mplayer instead of smplayer. 
Its gtk based and a little bit faster than smplayer by offering almost the same functionality. 

I am also suggesting the use of claws-mail instead of sylhpheed. 
Arguments: Saves passwords not in cleartext. Has lots of plugins. 
I have personal experience with sylpheed as we used it in ZevenOS also at first. But mainly due to localization issues we switched. (Version 2.7 though) 
The First Run Assistant is also much easier to understand for beginners. The plugin support is by far better. 
So simply more features :)
See also http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information#What_is_Claws_Mail.3F




On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:07:49 +0100
Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Le samedi 02 janvier 2010 à 10:58 +0100, Leszek Lesner a écrit :
> > The ubuntu-restricted-extras will only install gstreamer-plugins-bad
> > and gstreamer-ffmpeg. As SMPlayer might be using w32codecs which
> > aren't packaged in ubuntu right now (only medibuntu as far as I know)
> > we could create a shell scribt downloading the codec, but as it isn't
> > offically ubuntu, I don't know really. 
> If it's outside Ubuntu official repositories, we can't do more than
> mention the Medibuntu repo when people have problems with codecs, but we
> can't include something like a script or an automated process to get
> them.
> 
> > Btw. why still using smplayer ? I thought QT requirements should be
> > avoided. Why not using gnome-mplayer (making a vote perhaps to choose
> > the right media player)
> Feel free to open a discussion on the mailing list, I'll support the
> switch to gnome-mplayer ;)
> 
> > The NewWave Theme I created would be also nice to integrate:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Artwork/Incoming/Lucid/NewWave
> Maybe in the next release, like other piece of artwork.
> 
> > PS: The fonts problem described is caused because LXDE doesn't have
> > font-hinting(like gnome or KDE have). 
> > 
> > BUGs I noticed: 
> > - Isolinux boot menu localization is not completed (I think we need to
> > recompile the *.tr files here, but I am not quite sure)
> Do you know which locale are missing ?


It seems every locale for the LiveCD menu entry(Try Lubuntu without any...) and installation menu entry(Install Lubuntu) seem not to be localized. 

> 
> > - Right cick menu on desktop points to windowmanagers (openbox) menu.
> > (Simply change default config of pcmanfm to fix this)
> It is intentional, the openbox menu provide IMO more interesting
> features than the pcmanfm one. It will be revert if users are not happy
> with it.

I think the most common one would be the pcmanfm right click stuff and so it should be used default

> 
> > - Still using sylpheed (its outdated ! come on who stores passwords in
> > cleartext !? Fix: Switch to claws-mail (localization support and by
> > far better plugin support, spam filter etc. ) 
> It's not outdated, it's the last version released some days ago. Feel
> free also to open a discussion on the mailing list for another email
> client.
> 
> > - Some apps seem too have to big default window size considering using
> > them on the eeePC or any other netbook.
> Names ?

I tested those apps at a 800x600 resolution: 
PyNeighborhood (width a little bit too long) 
XFBurn (width)
Software Sources (starts with bottom part under lxpanel, width and height is okay though)
 


> 
> > - We should consider removing PyNeighborhood if the gvfs
> > implementation in pcmanfm2 is completed (2 apps for solving the same
> > issues here, see Ubuntu which only ships with nautilus(file-manager)
> > for browsing ftp) 
> Only when pcmanfm2 will be completed.
> 
> > Suggestions:
> > I attached a little modified openbox config which changes some of the
> > hotkeys (e.g. WIN+D for hide to desktop, CTRL+ALT+D opens up pcmanfm,
> > CTRL+ALT+T opens up terminal)
> Thanks, I'll merge it to the current config file.
> 
> > I would also suggest adding a screenshot application. As you can see
> > in the modified openbox config, I am currently using scrot. It stores
> > the files directly in the home folder with current date and time as
> > file name. 
> Good idea.
> 
> > Tiling Windows is a nice and interesting way to add a kinda expose
> > effect to openbox. I found
> > http://ftp.unixdev.net/pub/debian-udev/pool/main/t/tile/ which may
> > work. (not tested yet) and http://pytyle.com/wiki/Main_Page . Sadly
> > they seem not be packaged in ubuntu. 
> tile seems very old, not sure it still working.
> pystyle need to be packaged, and only after this we can considering it
> for inclusion.
> 
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
> 

Regards,
Leszek Lesner