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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:04:05 -0400
Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:20:50 +0100
> Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Discuss Backup solution (http://davestechshop.net/blog/dave/list-of-free-open-source-linux-and-ubuntu-backup-software)
> > Backups? :P  
> > Plenty to go at.  A simple point-and-click solution is the obvious way to go.
> 
> Not a priority, but if there is a good lightweight solution, it could be good.

As a member of the 'Must do a backup tomorrow society' :) it is something I’ll have to have a look at.

> 
> > Discuss CD/DVD Burn choice : Xfburn (xfce depends + hal) or Brasero (gnome depends but no hal) or something else ?
> > Any thing HAL free as there seems to be no point in having HAL for just one program, could even be built into PcManFM
> 
> The "Any thing HAL free" is actually limited to Brasero, I didn't find another good CD burner without HAL.

TBH all my CD/DVD burning is done with k3b as this just seams to be the most reliable.

> 
> > I would like to see some discussion of the minimum, REALISTIC hardware requirements. 
> 
> It depends of the use, and sometimes the state of your hardware. It's not really easy to set an universal requierement, only experiments can help in this case.

I was thinking more of the installation but now we have an alternate installer this is really a problem.

> 
> > Also a RSS reader might be nice, Liferea maybe.
> 
> Ubuntu didn't have one, and Liferea is not really lightweight. Like Backup, if a good solution exist, why not.

OK.  Not a great problem for people to install if needed and I suppose there is probably some thing for Chromium that does this anyway.

> 
> > WBar, the launcher/dock thingy is rather nice and gives a modern feel to the desktop and may be worth considering.
> 
> Lxpanel is a component which will be very difficult to remove, unless you have very very good reasons and a good benchmark.
> 
People I’ve shown Lubuntu to with WBar running wrere rather impressed and I thought it might just provide something different from the crowd.  I use it in conjunction with the panel, which I move to the top.

NumLockX installed by default would be very useful. to me any way.  I know there’s a problem with it at the moment but, hopefully it will be solved.

I suppose the thing to do, really, is to try and get rid of some of the annoying bugs in the config area, like the LXRandR one mentioned earlier.

Have fun in the USA :D


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