Comments on: A lightweight heavyweight

By: guest

guest — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:08:02 +0000

Did you try their bug trackers?
It’s the right way to send your patches.
Posting something in a forum is not a very good idea.
Did you see any gnome developer posting on a gnome forum?
They use mailing list and bug trackers, not forums.
Forum is for discussions and Q & A supported by user community, not for bug reports or patches.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:07:11 +0000

Did you try their bug trackers?
It’s the right way to send your patches.
Posting something in a forum is not a very good idea.
Did you see that any gnome developers posting on a gnome forum?
They use mailing list and bug trackers, not forums.
Forum is for discussions and Q & A supported by user community, not for bug report or patches.

By: Links 23/07/2009: Sony Ericsson Dumps Windows for Linux, US Free Software Coalition Formed | Boycott Novell

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:07:54 +0000

[...] A lightweight heavyweight Of course mentioning LXDE in the same breath as KDE and Gnome will make some people bristle. Obviously a project with more than 430 contributors and one with 26 are in different leagues, even if the statistics show them in close succession. [...]

By: qmic

qmic — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:37:27 +0000

I often change distributions for similiar reasons . Very much I am frustrated when something won`t work. I was thinking that project is abandoned .(low developers and community activity

By: Links 17/07/2009: Many GNU/Linux Releases and Zeitgeist Engine | Boycott Novell

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:14:55 +0000

[...] A lightweight heavyweight So I was amazed, and at the same time pleased, to read on the LXDE devlopment blog that they rank quite high in the list of active projects on Ohloh. You can double-check the figures and the rankings with the links on that entry; I had to look for myself too, but apparently it’s true. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:10:23 +0000

That’s one of the most unusual reasons for switching desktops I’ve ever encountered. I won’t apologize for your experience though; if you had difficulty contacting the LXDE crew I can only suggest trying again.

By: robert gainey

robert gainey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:06:33 +0000

Maybe its something else and not KDE.
Im writing from KubuntuKDE4.22, I have Mandriva2009 on the netbook and have run KDE with Linux Mint and OpenSuse and Arch and Fedora before that and cant say ive run across a big problem like that. Some distros like Kubuntu are flakier than others but yours seem more than a simple bug.
Ive installed Mandriva09/KDE4.2 on a dozen computers these past 3 months since its the first KDE that I thought was ready for my folks. Ive installled on AMD, Intel and 64bits, using quite a few videos cards.
Of course, for some reason Kubuntu just freezes non stop on my dad’s computer so he had to have the same Mandriva as mom has on her laptop (dad wanted kubuntu because he read about flyboybuntu and saw him on tv talk about that Lienux thing I work on!). I still have it there as a dual boot so I can give it another go when I have time there. That;s the bad thing about having your folks run Linux: you dont see them as often doing service calls on their Windows machines.
Microsoft: helping to bring families together (often!)

Ive got Gentoo and Kubuntu on a test machine, I think Ill install LXDE on top to try how that works. I will curse your name if it fails woodsmoke !!!

By: qmic

qmic — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:05:28 +0000

What are you talking about??? LXDE ?? Many developers? I wrote a patch which solved problem with unproperly batteries detection, a had NO ONE to send it to. I posted it on forum and i was waiting one month with no response and then I changed desktop environment.

By: johnraff

johnraff — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:00:49 +0000

LXDE’s “disjointedness” is intended as a feature. You can pick and choose the parts you want to use, at the cost of some of the integration you’d get with more sophisticated desktops.

By: Sertse

Sertse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:14:59 +0000

Also, many people’s perception of XFCE comes from Xubuntu, which is about as unlight as it can be. Plain XFCE is quite manageable. Help us when the official Lubuntu ever comes about, and you’ll see haha

For me, LXDE feels a bit disjointed in some ways; Grouping otherwise unrelated tools into a metapackge and calling it a DE.

Disclaimer: I use LXDE (sessions/lxappareance)/XFCE (desktop)/Fluxbox(wm) setup,