replace lxcc with (branded) lubuntu-control-center

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi people.. for 11.4 is my idea to replace lxcc with lubuntu-control-center. I want to re-brand the package, and make it fit out needs. that will make translations a lot easier (it finally use .po) and is way more good looking.. waiting for feedback before proceed Andrea - -- - ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE-LXDE Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea@opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea@links2linux.de Cell: +39-328-7365667 - ------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzVU6QACgkQyCZT87TFPuihOQCeKBH8x2Fe3WXTr3E45Mvyc6rV u50AoOPvt4PZLxQYHNBdpt9AkWEs5VuQ =DD+u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 06.11.2010 14:09, schrieb Andrea Florio:
Hi people..
for 11.4 is my idea to replace lxcc with lubuntu-control-center.
I want to re-brand the package, and make it fit out needs.
that will make translations a lot easier (it finally use .po) and is way more good looking..
waiting for feedback before proceed
Andrea
Gofor it! - -- Lutz Thuns openSUSE official member (lOtz1009) LXDE-Team -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM1VMcAAoJEFuFM+jpZ7AVvqQIALT9o7iWUXKQdYqABL2e+iXF /+ePDVt17TYXArWy1Fo1lOJ3T8eZw8OuaSdtka/23zmJxVXzdZbOMY7o/j8hjzZo Kga3aYkDR1/5MfqZny1BJVKV6ZtYH+lOsKVaKhChTcUOcrbXq7URGNjDrz4Llxfu zPuzaEHrfMsDjOLDUhMFct7QlSAAokRncQk6OqbQ/3yNM0d4jyN9xrboxt39+iJX Kilf7zIbkx8MftiVaEHcRTxp+/BXcSD7aIrN+t6CNqH/zoUgVWEKsAk2T1p7gPp5 lnEpFGBnujO7Pv1SDDBOPNxfiRK41J9khUt21EtzgUyqqbfgTjtudvfOt/rGAiE= =rroX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help@opensuse.org

Hello, * Andrea Florio <andrea@opensuse.org> [2010-11-06 14:06]:
Hi people..
for 11.4 is my idea to replace lxcc with lubuntu-control-center.
I want to re-brand the package, and make it fit out needs.
that will make translations a lot easier (it finally use .po) and is way more good looking..
for a quick look I'm not impressed by it, it suffers from the same flaws as the current control center. It hardcodes all all helper applications so it can only be modified by patching, it starts child processes in an awkward way using os.popen("subprocess &") instead of using glib.spawn_async and glib.child_watch_add to keep track of its children and preventing a helper application from being started multiple times, it duplicates functionality (e.g. hardware settings) which are managed by YaST in openSUSE, and worst of all it seems to store its prefrences in CouchDB for no good reason which is not exactly lightweight (and why does a trivial configuration manager need to have preferences at all?). The only advantages seem that it looks slightly better and does not use a homegrown format for translations. I suppose fixing this in the current control center would probably take the same amount of time as patching the Lubuntu one. A better approach would be if the upstream LXDE community could agree on a single and easily extensible control center (I suppose simple .desktop files would suffice) with the above fixes which all distros could then use. -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help@opensuse.org
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Andrea Florio
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Guido Berhoerster
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Lutz Thuns