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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

First, I would like to thanks all people for their feedbacks.
Also, I know people will be disagree about some choices, but we can't
make all people agreed :) Remember that the goal is to provide a
distribution ready to use, especially designed for low ressource
hardware. 
This list can evolve before the final release, but I would like to not
change it too much, so we can focus on bug fix and integration.
So, this is the last changes proposal :

=== chromium for the browser ===
Well, it's not because Chromium is the best, it's more because the
others options is not really suitable, for different reasons :
- Firefox have serious performance problem on limited hardware.
- Midori have limited features, limited upstream ressources (compare to
others), with not significant ressources gain.

=== gnome-mplayer for videos ===
There is no reason to keep smplayer which bring extra depends on QT,
when gnome-mplayer have the same functionalities.

=== network-manager instead of wicd ===
This was not planned at the first time, but there are the reasons : new
version of wicd (1.7.0) use 2 instances, and this double the among of
memory it used. Also, there is some reports that wireless is not
supported in some cases.
Network-manager is not perfect, but the support is quite good, and we
can share the maintenance with other teams. Also, memory usage is not
that bad, but it's definitely better than wicd.

=== Using pcmanfm2 instead of old pcmanfm ===
Lubuntu Lucid will be the first real release for Lubuntu. It's not the
end, but I hope the beginning for it. It makes more sense to use
directly the futur pcmanfm, than working on the old one which will be
deprecated very soon.

For others part, no change. It's mean, keeping Aqualung for music player
and Sylpheed for e-mail. There was arguments for and against Sylpheed,
some preferred Claw-Mails. But there is no big arguments for a switch,
as the memory and CPU usage are the same, and main functionalities are
in both clients.

I'll made the changes to the Lubuntu packages and release a testing ISO
tomorrow or Monday. We will have a complete week to test it, until the
IRC meeting next Sunday, and do adjustments if it's needed.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne