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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/16/2011 03:31 PM, Julien Lavergne wrote:

> 1) Display manager : Lightdm vs LXDM
> 2) Dropping Xchat
> 3) Text editor : Gedit vs Leafpad

> Are people who want to discuss this are available for a meeting this
> week-end ? If not, we can proceed by mail on the mailing list.


I'm available online for a meeting in the next ten hours or so; I'm
mostly unavailable on Sundays.  Please would someone let me known in
#lubuntu-offtopic if a meeting starts happens in the next few hours :)

I'd suggest just leaving all three of these alone this cycle, but I am
not going to spend a lot of energy fighting changes if the majority feel
otherwise.

A quick summary of my reasoning:

(1) LXDM works, and we have close control over its upstream; I think
lightdm is new and we can let others work out its early bugs (if any :)
before adopting it for Lubuntu.  Leave it alone, reconsider in the next
cycle, would be my suggestion.

(2) Xchat seems to have some folks who really like it being there by
default, and who use it, and others who don't care about it and so want
it dropped.  Let's leave it alone, unless we *really* need that space on
the CD.

(3) Gedit: Serious programmers are going to install and use their
favourite text editor anyway (which is probably not gedit *or*
leafpad!), and I suspect most other "normal" users don't care that much
what text editor is included, as long as it works.  So leave it alone
would be my suggestion.

Jonathan