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Someone, who I knew at the Ubuntu Forums long time ago, just sent to me a link to Popular ideas - Ubuntu brainstorm,
he referred me to the first popular solution: Idea #25793: "Idea for Xubuntu lifghtness" - Ubuntu brainstorm (and he had a good reason)
46 votes, so far.
FYI, when I installed XUbuntu 9.04 I was very disappointed because it wasn't a real Xfce Desktop Environment, considering what I knew then from images and writings on many pages on the world wide web, and what I'm experiencing today!Written by Mancio82 the 7 Sep 10 at 14:49. Related project: Xubuntu. Status: New
Rationale
Hi everybody,
I'm a proud Xubuntu user and for me XFCE DE is a very good DE: stable, fast and complete of all features.
However, for me Xubuntu releases, had on default installation, heavy software, like Firefox or Thunderbird, and too GNOME library and applications installed, which make xfce too heavy
Tags: fast light native software system XFCE Xubuntu
Solution #1: XFCE native software
Written by Mancio82 the 7 Sep 10 at 14:49.
To solve xubuntu problem, I should release distribution with XFCE or light software, and only few GNOME applications;
Example
Browser: NO Firefox, but Midori or Chromium
Email Client: NO Thunderbird, but Claws Email
Burning tools: NO Brasero, but xfburn
System tools: NO GNOME Monitor but for example XFCE-Taskmanager
I've do this steps on my home laptop (Xubuntu 10.04 LTS) and system works very fine and fast.
CONCLUSION:
My opinion is to release Xubuntu with more XFCE sofware and tools, and few GNOME software for a very light and fast system
So I've decided to make a report that will mostly specify what is wrong and how it can be much better! I've invested Friday and Saturday + one more Friday and Saturday for it!
The report, as far as I remember, was very well written and ordered in a very clear and comfortable to read way, and when I've posted it on the Ubuntu Forums the thread got more than 30 comment/replies supporting my suggestion (each reply supported most if not all of what I've said), two days later, after me participating in the thread that I've started I was BANNED (or blocked) from the Ubuntu Forums and the thread, that had a lot of support from Ubuntu (GNOME) users and XUbuntu users, was DELETED!, and I was very straight and very polite, no ranting or anything alike.
Surprisingly, three suggestions that are displayed at this page were presented in my report
and if Midori was as good as it is now, it would be mentioned there as wellEmail Client: NO Thunderbird, but Claws Email
Burning tools: NO Brasero, but xfburn
System tools: NO GNOME Monitor but for example XFCE-Taskmanager
And one last thing: the most amateurish thing that Canonical/Ubuntu did was to deliver the Xfce panel and the Gnome panel installed at the same time, by default, though these panels weren't running at the same time of course, but still, it is a waste of disk space...
Today lesson for Canonical.Ltd is:
Victor Marie Hugo said:
Victor Hugo wrote:No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
(in short) No army can stop an idea whose time has come.
