Applications selection discussion....

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 21:40 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> Some comments inline :
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:

[...] snip!

>>> Definite ins
>>> ------------
>>> Gnumeric
>>> Abiword
>>> Firefox (some may question this, but I'm not yet sold on webkit)
>> Some suggest that Epiphany is lighter than firefox at times - I'm not
>> sure whether this is true or not. Also, if Epiphany-webkit is packaged
>> for Fedora, I would definitely like to give it a shot.
> 
> Data, RAM usage, disk footprint and compatibility would be needed to
> make a webkit sale.  
>   o Firefox 3 has done seriously better on memory consumption at the
> time of its release than other browsers, but it's a (constantly) moving
> target....  
>   o Also note since Sugar's browse is based on Gecko/Xulrunner, there is
> sharing there when sugar is installed; installing something else would
> go to the detriment of the combined footprint for including Sugar. 
> 
> Unless such data appears and is very compelling, I think Firefox is it,
> at least unless we decide to convert sugar's browse to webkit.  I
> therefore don't plan to spend any time on this evaluation personally.

Well, I'd agree with Jim - Webkit might have gained popularity in the 
last time, but I don't see a reason to switch, either. Webkit for 
Epiphany isn't ready yet, since it has been postponed due to issues with 
rebasing Evolution to Webkit (they want to rebase both Epiphany and 
Evolution). AFAIK, it won't be ready for Gnome 2.24, and therefore not 
for F10 (there's this compiling option to use Webkit with Epiphany, but...).

>>> 7) music player Rhythmbox? or something else? There are many to choose
>>> from.
>>>
>> The other major contender would be banshee - it's dependency on Mono
>> leaves it out.
>>
> 
> Ah, that makes it an easy choice, unless there is a third option....

Heh. Want me to come up with more? ;)

Well, the first question is, do we want to have something like Rhythmbox 
or Banshee in (I mean this iTunes-like music library) - or do we just 
want to stick with a normal player like Totem. If the first is the case, 
then we've...

rhythmbox, /me personally prefers this one
banshee, pulling in mono, so no real option imo
exaile, a amarok clone (not a real clone) based on GTK and Python
quodlibet, another music library, based on GTK and Python

There's more stuff around... but I'm just adding 'em for completeness: 
If you want still talk about the mono, there's still stuff like cowbell 
and muine around. And if you need to go the complicated way, we could 
even run for songbird...

--Sebastian