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Glenn,

The mere existence of Lubuntu loses it's purpose if you start bloating it.
Why bother, going through all the trouble of making an environment like LXDE
work with Ubuntu wich it doesn't work as well with as Gnome, if in the end,
there isn't anything to distinguish it but the labeling?

I am sure your comments about quantity of dependencies transcends across the
OS, and is not limited to just the music player.  We are probably all hoping
for a better "knoppix", with Lubuntu: auto-detection, codecs, speed, light
weight, to name a few.

You start making these kind of decisions here, there, everywhere, and before
you know it, your distro is double the bloat and half the speed.

Some of these recommendations may better serve the main edition of Ubuntu
and Mint.  But when you are looking at making small and fast, you may have
to make some trade-offs.

Proposed Solution: one thing you may want to do, is build it with the
faster, more efficient tools.  Users can always use Synaptic to install
whatever they prefer - those will be the users with the 160GB+ hard drives
and who really don't care about disk space.  And the ones with more compact
resources, like a Netbook with a solid state hard drive, those with older
laptops, will all be grateful that the bloat is out and Lubuntu is as fast
small and efficient as it can possibly be.



On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 13:37, Glenn <glenn_de_groot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I am sending this mail because of the advise Julien Lavergne gave me in
> our big ¨Lubuntu application discussion for maverick¨ discussion. :P
>
> This mail is about discussing Aqualung replacing with Exaile.
> Exaile is a bit like a lightweight rhythmbox, it loads quickly and
> supports a lot of music files. Through Synaptic you can even install a
> plugin for Ipod support, and you can also install a plugin for pidgin so
> pidgin can display the music song you are listening with Exaile.
> Exaile uses about 18,8 mb of memory on idle, and Aqualung uses 9.9 mb of
> memory on idle (LXmusic 2.7 mb :P )
> Exaile has many advantages, it is not gray and not odd looking like
> Aqualung (which looks weird in every Desktop Enviroment) less
> dependencies, more support because of a bigger project. (e.g Exaile has
> a good launchpad page with bug reporting and translating all open to
> everyone, Aqualung hasn´t got a launchpad page.)
> Is the 9 mb difference in memory consumption acceptable in Lubuntu? Or a
> slightly different question, is it worth the sacrifice? (Atleast I think
> it definetly is, but what about you guys?)
>
> - -Glenn
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