On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:25 PM, J. Greenlees <[email protected]> wrote: > I can and will build seamonkey and test it, it's not difficult. > but until the Seamonkey team can resolve the TSAR problem with the 2 > series, the only fix is to use the menu sequence File/Quit or [Ctrl]-Q > to exit it if you have accessed the mail/news component. and restart > Seamonkey to get back to working on the build. That main issue takes me away from using Seamonkey for now. What would be better used would be these apps:
* Firefox as the GUI web browser, and we can keep using Lynx as the console one. * Thunderbird as the GUI mail client, and for the console one, why don't we try Mutt? * Either XChat or the Chatzilla extension to Firefox as the GUI IRC client, and Irssi would be a good candidate for the console one. As for the desktop environments: * XFCE, the one that is in the LiveCD as of now, is lightweight and looks decent, but it takes up 15 MB with an Xorg installation, and I think LXDE and E17 look better. * LXDE, my recomendation, takes up less space (less than XFCE even), and also looks very cool (trust me, just look at the pictures on the LXDE web site). It's based on Openbox, and it can function as a full desktop environment, but still taking up little space. This is defently a good candidate for the LiveCD. * Enlightment, well, E16 looks kinda cruddy to me, and E17, while it looks very beautiful, it is still being developed and takes up the same space as XFCE. It's a good choice if you want a sexy looking LiveCD, but for a reliable one... * Fluxbox looks pretty ugly, but I can live with it, just be aware that other users might not live with it... Therefor, I think LXDE should go into the LiveCD (and in the book too). It looks great, takes up little space, and is perfect for us. What do you all think? -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. Messages in plain text, please, no HTML. GPG key ID: 1697BE98 If it's not signed, it's not from me. -------------- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
