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Hi,

Same as Nio: I write inline.

Best regards,
Mélodie

On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 09:54:38 +0100
Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Walter,
> [inline]
> Best regards
> Nio
> 
> Den 2015-02-21 22:21, Walter Lapchynski skrev:

> > Here's more info about the idea I have:
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming/+spec/one-iso-to-rule-them-all1
> 
> I cannot open the blueprints page: 'page not found' or 'you are not
> allowed to read it'

Remove that '1' which hangs at the end of the line and you'll have your page:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/lubuntu-brainstorming/+spec/one-iso-to-rule-them-all

> -o-
> 
> Finally, don't get me wrong. I will be very happy with a lighter
> ubiquity (that needs less RAM). If you and some other people have the
> time and energy to make it, I will be a happy tester and later on a
> happy user :-)

I was at a Linux club yesterday afternoon, we had a yearly meeting, then we had a couple
with their computers under Linux and they needed help for their machines. While a buddy
was looking after one machine, I installed Bento to the other machine : the Ubuntu user
who came for help had broken his official Ubuntu by upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04.
(I had tried to repair it by a new update, but once the damage done… no more keyboard or
mouse working, the man had no data to save in it, plus we were a bit short in time so
the install was done fast).

>From this experience of yesterday, I suggest that the partitioner from inside the
installer be removed and replaced by a call to Gparted. I have tried it during half
a minute, in the machine of that man, on his laptop which has 4 GB ram, it was sooo long
to bring me to the next step that I stopped the install to do the partitioning with
Gparted (which is sooo much fast! ). And I resumed the install right after.

This is one item that could be removed to make it lighter. 

Another item which can be improved is the CSS for the slide-show. There is an improved
one, compared to the original which seems to be quite old and clunky, in the Bento's
slide-show. I has been improved by a team member last year, I could provide a copy.

The images could perhaps be replaced by a base64 code, using some tool.
http://css-tricks.com/data-uris/

It makes the code much lighter. It is used to make websites lighter to load, it might
have the same effect in a slide-show installer.

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