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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is about my reasoning also for proposed changes.

I also think that LXDM this cycle makes sense, my concern would be that the
other proposal involves LightDM with LXDM as a fall back. I'm concerned this
may be an undue strain on our limited devs. That 12.04 is an LTS, we can be
pretty confident that extra resources are going to be available from the
whole Ubuntu dev people. I've said it before and will repeat, the release
prior to an LTS is a 'stable beta', regardless of how it is called. If the
Devs are confident that they CAN get LightDM up and running 100% for 11-10,
then by all means go for it. That call is really up to the devs.

X-chat.... I've nothing against it (regardless what people may think!). If
we need disk space on the CD for language packs etc. then dropping X-Chat
and relying on pidgin will, at least, give people the ability to access IRC.
X-Chat is far superior on IRC, but when we are squeezed for space and low
bandwidths etc? Crikey, i recall us discussing the alternate installation
and GUI installation both being able to fit on one iso.

For the leafpad Vs Gedit Vs Libre.. Again, I would ask for the smallest one
in terms of disk space and CPU / RAM requirement. Those with quad core
machines and 4GB+ of RAM can add on what they wish. This has always been a
point I make to people considering Lubuntu. It is a 'lean, mean, keen and
green' version - But it is no way a 'cut-down and crippled' version of the
ubuntu family. Put onto it your favourite programmes (Full LAMP server and
Bluefish etc. are some the additions I made).

Regards,


Phill.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>
>
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