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[Glenn <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello,


VIDEO
VLC is very very good but it brings in nasty QT dependencies and it uses
too many dependencies for Lubuntu I think. I think we should keep
Mplayer until other players like Parole become good alternatives.


AUDIO
On the LXDE blog it says LXmusic 0.4.4 supports Album art and this:

¨By using Collection API, performance improved dramatically on large
play lists. Loading time for 3030 entries  reduced from 7 to 0.5 seconds
on a Core 2 Duo T6500 system.¨

Probably the loading time on an old pc is 2 or 4 seconds but it is
rather nice.

BROWSER
I think we should give Midori a try and after comparisons between the
latest chromium and midori we should pick one.

IM CLIENT
ayttm looks very nice.
We should definetly consider making this the default im client if it is
working properly. I have seen the new version of pidgin (2.7) and it
looks rather nice as well.

Are there any plans of getting LXtask in the repo´s?

- -Glenn

> Hi,
> 
> *Video*
> well I still have not gotten MPlayer to play copyrighted dvd's (I think I
> downloaded every codec, mythbuntu and everything else) I popped vlc on and
> it worked out of the box. I know that playing dvd's is not high on the list
> of things for lubuntu to do ;-)
> 
> *Music*
> Aqualung I'm quietly impressed with. There was a previous discussion about
> other players, which I have tried; but they have all crashed when faced with
> a dvd upon which there is 4GB of music files (Over 2 days worth if played
> continuously), this music is in mp3 format and spilt between 1st folder and
> many sub-folders. Aqualung took about a couple of minutes to get them all
> onto its playlist.
> 
> *Browser*
> I've gotten pretty used to Chromium, but am happy with any browser that can
> use tabs & supports WOT http://www.mywot.com/ etc. The only thing I would
> add to that is any replacement browser *must* be able to import passwords,
> history & bookmarks from the likes of Firefox. Chromium can import such
> items from a Ffox installation that was on a Windows machine, such ease of
> transfer is, IMHO, a big plus for Chromium (That and the devs do actually
> reply to bug reports - which is also a big plus).
> 
> I'm glad to see that discussions are taking place about what are the best
> for Lubuntu, however these programmes must be in the ubuntu repos and up to
> date for lubuntu to be adopted. lubuntu will not be able to ship with ppa's
> required for its installation.
> 
> Just my $0.02 ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Lee Briggs <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The problem is, we could discuss which applications to include for years
>> and never reach a consensus.
>>
>> Chrome is good, developed regularly and efficient. The only browser I'd
>> include over Chrome is the newest Midori which is extremely good. Its
>> improved lots since it was tested for the Lucid build.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest ayttm as a messaging client. Its tiny, supports all the
>> major protocols including Jabber, (allowing facebook chat support) and has
>> very few dependencies.
>>
>> I'd also like to second parole for media client
>>
>> On 13 May 2010 08:59, Glenn <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello guys,
>>>
>>> I noticed LXmusic is in the Ubuntu lucid repo´s, I installed it on my
>>> Ubuntu lucid desktop and after choosing an output plugin (default is
>>> none for some reason) in the settings menu it nicely played my mp3´s and
>>> possibly also other files.
>>> Will the next Lubuntu (Maverick) use LXmusic instead of Aqualung (which
>>> uses a lot more dependencies) and possibly other applications like
>>> LXtask instead of Xfce-taskmanager as default?
>>> Also we should take a look at Parole, a XFCE media player, since it has
>>> 25 dependencies and Mplayer has 49.
>>> The PPA is here:
>>>
>>> https://launchpad.net/~stemp/+archive/xfce
>>>
>>> It plays ogv, wmv and probably many other files without a problem.
>>> Most of the dependencies of Parole will already be used in Xfburn I think.
>>>
>>> Also what about replacing Chromium by Epiphany?
>>> Epiphany has only about 7 dependencies more but it is much more
>>> lightweight and I read on the Dutch Ubuntu forums it uses about 30 to 40
>>> mb less on an old pc with Lubuntu installed.
>>> This really can make the difference between slow and fast on an old
>>> computer. It probably will be a big project but what about the
>>> LXDE/Lubuntu team forking Epiphany and creating something like LXbrowser
>>> to avoid any gnome dependencies?
>>>
>>>
>>> Don´t think I am some weird guy bashing things in the mailing list, I
>>> have been following the LXDE, XFCE, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu projects
>>> for a long time and I know what I am talking about.
>>> I am also a member of the Lubuntu team as a translator, since the
>>> translation for Lubuntu to my language is sometimes poor and incomplete.
>>> :)
>>>
>>> From,
>>>
>>> Glenn de Groot
>>> :D
>>>
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