Hi I've just installed kubuntu 10.04 and just coming from Arch Linux, which is simple in design (not to configure, but that's another story), I feel there could be a bit more of KISS in kubuntu.
From wikipedia "The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided."
Some things I noted a bit "dirty":
1- Systray icons are loaded by the files in /usr/share/autostart/ so that even If I close bluetooth and printer applets they come back everytime (unless files in /usr/share/autostart/ are deleted)
2- Related to 1,I changed network-manager to gnome gui for some problem with dsl(I've seen bug reported) , nm-applet can't be loaded at login unless it's put in /usr/share/autostart/
Shouldn't all these work of autostart be left to kde? AFAIK kde handles this by opening all apps that were opened last logout (Is there any problem with this method?).
3 -Too much splited packages in repos I Guess this comes from ubuntu but what's the advantage of having For example chromium divided into all these packages:
chromium-browser - Chromium browser
chromium-browser-dbg - chromium-browser debug symbols
chromium-browser-inspector - page inspector for the chromium-browser
chromium-browser-l10n - chromium-browser language packages
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-dbg - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg debug symbols
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra debug symbols
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree - dummy upgrade package
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree-dbg - dummy upgrade package
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg - Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra - Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
I know chromium is a bad example but What I'm saying is that IMHO there are too much -common -dbg -* packages with no apparent benefit(correct me If I'm wrong)
By no means I'm trying to offend any kubuntu developer or something. You've made a great work, I just wan't to know What people think of these, I could help tiding things too, I'm no developer but I'll do what I can. Thanks
From wikipedia "The KISS principle states that simplicity should be a key goal in design, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided."
Some things I noted a bit "dirty":
1- Systray icons are loaded by the files in /usr/share/autostart/ so that even If I close bluetooth and printer applets they come back everytime (unless files in /usr/share/autostart/ are deleted)
2- Related to 1,I changed network-manager to gnome gui for some problem with dsl(I've seen bug reported) , nm-applet can't be loaded at login unless it's put in /usr/share/autostart/
Shouldn't all these work of autostart be left to kde? AFAIK kde handles this by opening all apps that were opened last logout (Is there any problem with this method?).
3 -Too much splited packages in repos I Guess this comes from ubuntu but what's the advantage of having For example chromium divided into all these packages:
chromium-browser - Chromium browser
chromium-browser-dbg - chromium-browser debug symbols
chromium-browser-inspector - page inspector for the chromium-browser
chromium-browser-l10n - chromium-browser language packages
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-dbg - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg debug symbols
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra debug symbols
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree - dummy upgrade package
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree-dbg - dummy upgrade package
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg - Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra - Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
I know chromium is a bad example but What I'm saying is that IMHO there are too much -common -dbg -* packages with no apparent benefit(correct me If I'm wrong)
By no means I'm trying to offend any kubuntu developer or something. You've made a great work, I just wan't to know What people think of these, I could help tiding things too, I'm no developer but I'll do what I can. Thanks
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