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GEdit is miserably slow even on my new laptop. I would say GEdit -1.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Aloha oukou,
>
> I've got one suggestion for replacement, which is to replace leafpad with
> gedit. Note bloated in any way and handy syntax highlighting to boon.
>
> With metta,
>
> Chris Druif
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 01:13, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hiyas Boss,
>>
>> Me thinks now would be a good time to decide these items. Setting up a
>> vote, followed by a meeting may be a good idea?
>>
>> We have
>>
>>    - June 14th : End of proposal for applications by default
>>
>> Followed by
>>
>>
>>    - June 19th : Decision for the modifications of default applications
>>
>> @ ALL
>>
>> Yes, I know everyone who proposes their favourite application that is not
>> installed by default feels sore, hopefully in Lubuntu we are not that petty
>> as to leave because of it.
>>
>> Any application can be added from the repositories, some of the 'weird'
>> stuff people do to Lubuntu is a testament to just how rock solid it is.
>>
>> The old, and so far, not replaced rule is that a proposed application may
>> not...
>>
>> 1) Use any hard disk space up
>> 2) Use any CPU time when running
>> 3) Use any RAM when running.
>>
>> Whilst we may laugh at such rules, they are what make Lubuntu able to do
>> what it does on our minimal spec. For those with lots of Hard Disk space and
>> RAM and really high CPU's - Great. Lubuntu is lean, mean, keen and green.
>> BUT we are going to remain within our "Pentium II or Celeron system with
>> 128 MiB of RAM"
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> "I say stick with what we've got and lets get Lubuntu twiddled and
>>> polished.
>>>
>>> "Remember when suggesting applications that the target is a couple of
>>> hundred MHz CPU and 128 MiB of RAM."
>>>
>>> Indeed, let's remain focused on keeping Lubuntu light. We also need to
>>> consider how many changes are already in the works ;^)
>>>
>>> I doubt the change to GTK+ 3 will be without numerous challenges, as will
>>> be transition to becoming a full-fledged Ubuntu release. No easy time for
>>> the limited number of devs.
>>>
>>> But, regarding software in particular this may come into play, from the
>>> ToDo (more than bite size) list:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers/TODO
>>>
>>> "Software-center : Work on a new minimal interface to see if it's
>>> possible to switch to SC: TODO "
>>>
>>> It may be possible that an appropriate version of SC could solve most of
>>> these problems. Maybe we could install even less and then let people decide
>>> what fits their needs and hardware best.
>>>
>>> But ATM we need to give the devs room to adjust to the changes at hand.
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On *Tue, 6/7/11, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Proposed changes to lubuntu-desktop
>>> To: lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 2:19 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:06:28 -0400
>>> Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx<http://mc/compose?to=jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > >From a very-humble user point of view:
>>> >
>>> > I use Libre Office + Gnumeric (Abiword can't convince me). As i read
>>> > recently, Libre Office is getting performance improvements, but the
>>> problem
>>> > is still the ram consumption vs the ram used by abiword (i use LO for
>>> writer
>>> > and slideshows, but gnumeric is a magnificient tool), LO is an option?
>>> It
>>> > could bring a slideshow editor to Lubuntu... Let individually decide
>>> but my
>>> > guess is that Lubuntu should remain with abiword & gnumeric for the
>>> concept.
>>> > Midori: in many ways it could be best than chromium, but as PCMAN said,
>>> it's
>>> > not stable at all .
>>> Try running Libre/open Office on a 160 MIB, 300MHz machine and I think
>>> you'll find it just becomes unpleasant.  Abiword does everything I need of a
>>> word processor, and I install it on Ubuntu as Libre/Open Office is just
>>> cumbersome.
>>> As somebody who has had to sit through endless 'slide show' presentations
>>> I believe it may be one of the worst uses for a computer ever.
>>> I have Midori on one machine and keep trying it. It seems to take two
>>> steps forward then one back.  It has a way to go before it is a real
>>> alternative to FF or Chromium, sadly.
>>>
>>> > Games: ace of penguins is faster than anything, but they're not "cool"
>>> at
>>> > all. Everybody i've shown this says something like "looks ugly, how can
>>> i
>>> > configure it?". There's nothing better around?
>>> Ace of Penquins is probably best described as functional ;) but, who
>>> needs 'looks' in card games anyway?  There is however a set of icons being
>>> produced, slowly, for it. \o/
>>>
>>> > PDF viewers: i'm with Rafael on this, Evince is the best choice there
>>> is
>>> > (besides, it can read a lot of formats, not only pdf ;)
>>> Evince does appear to be the most functional of PDF reader on Linux.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > xscreensaver makes my installations crash on every old computer i own,
>>> i
>>> > already said this on the mailing list: it's heavy and it consumes
>>> energy
>>> > displaying something fancy on the screen instead of just a black screen
>>> or
>>> > turn it off (clearly i don't like it...); but it locks the screen, so
>>> it's
>>> > necessary.
>>> I have nothing nice to say about screen-savers so will say nothing.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > xchat as i know is on discussion as i read recently... Pidgin would be
>>> the
>>> > option.
>>> I hate Pidgin and will install XChat if it isn't installed by default.
>>>
>>> I say stick with what we've got and lets get Lubuntu twiddled and
>>> polished.
>>>
>>> Remember when suggesting applications that the target is a couple of
>>> hundred MHz CPU and 128 MiB of RAM.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
>>>
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