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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:40:19 -0400
Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following text is in Spanish...
> 

> First I congratulate for the excellent work Lubuntu, everything works pretty
> well.
> I want to comment that i use this operating system on a Compaq 1700
> (1000mhz, 256ram@100mhz) and I emerge the following "problems":
> 
>    1. Chromium is very light, but has a problem with the scrolling (it's a
>    known problem). On older computers like mine the effect is exaggerated
>    resulting horrible. Firefox and Midori does not have this problem.
I’ve not noticed this, and most of my Lubuntu machines have less CPU speed. In fact I find FF is often rather sluggish on older hardware.

>    2. Chromium has too many animations, such as opening a new tab or page
>    "new tab", making it difficult things the old computers.
Again I’ve not noticed any animations nor can I see any now.
>    3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is
>    heavier but is a real working tool.
I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad.  Only rarely  do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel spreadsheet.were somebody has used some dubious technique to achieve something that can be done in a simpler way.

> 
> Solutions:
> 
>    1. I have heard that Firefox has been optimized for use in Ubuntu, you
>    can not do something similar with Chromium and Lubuntu? (or create an app
>    eliminating all those fancy animations, installed by default in lubuntu)
>    2. Open Office works for me pretty well (once it has made some
>    arrangements and off Java), a bit slow to start but nothing unbearable. I
>    recommend Open Office but this is very subjective
> 
> I want to help with Lubuntu but i have no programming skills... how can i
> help?
> 



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