More space on the Xfce spin

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 13:45:18 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Yesterday XZ compression hit rawhide and the nightly spins dropped from
> ~694 MB (i686) / 695 MB (x86_64) to 567 / 568 MB.
>
> Now the question is: What are we going to do with this space? What would
> you like to see in the F15 Xfce spin?
>
> Some suggestions:
>      * libreoffice, at least writer, calc and impress
>      * gnumeric again (if we don't do libreoffice)
>      * more remmina-plugins: ATM we only have ssh, rdp and vnc, but
>        xdmcp, telepathy and nx are available, too
>      * more development stuff, e.g. meld and more geany-plugins
>      * games, e.g. gnome-games?
>
> More ideas?

Keep it small so it is more obvious Xfce is lightweight ;-). Smaller
downloads might attract more users then a full-brown iso with stuff
you can download afterward anyway (for the majority of the users at
least).

Nick


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