Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] Image size issues

07/01/2011 18:00, anonym:

> 07/01/11 17:58, intrigeri:
> > Hi,
> >
> > anonym wrote (06 Jan 2011 15:36:49 GMT) :
> >
> >> If we're already approaching the 700 MB limit, perhaps we should
> >> look into a lighter DE than Gnome?
> >
> > I'd rather not to, for several reasons:
> >
> > 1. Probably thanks to Ubuntu's popularity, lots of users are somehow
> > used to GNOME and would need to re-learn non neglictible amounts of
> > practical knowledge.
> >
> > 2. My intuition tells me GNOME offers us a great bunch of useful
> > functionality; I fear we would slowly realize this (and need to fix it
> > bits after bits) if we switch to something lighter, everytime users
> > complain for disappeared functionality. On the other hand I must admit
> > I have not tried e.g. XFCE recently, and it might now have most of
> > GNOME features we care about. I would be happy to stand corrected on
> > this one.
> >
I second intrigeri in these two points.

Cheers,

Alan


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