More space on the Xfce spin

Brock Hudson escapingsummer at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 01:32:18 UTC 2011


On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:11:12 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 24.01.2011, 23:09 +0100 schrieb Dominic Hopf:
> > Am Montag, den 24.01.2011, 19:43 +0100 schrieb Michael Spahn:
> > > We should keep Fedora XFCE as small as possible, everyone is free
> > > to install whatever he wants.
> > > 
> > > I know that a lot people are using xfce as a replacement for
> > > gnome and install their common tools like thunderbird etc. there,
> > > but I still think we should steer the course and keep it
> > > lightweight.
> > > 
> > > By the way, I like the software we are shipping.
> > > 
> > > At the moment I see no reason why we should use this space.
> 
> Because we are wasting space on the media we produce.
> 
> > I think so too at present.
> 
> Ok people, be honest: Who of you doesn't have Openoffice.org installed
> on his system? Who is using abiword and gnumeric instead?
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
> 
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In regards to this question; 

> Ok people, be honest: Who of you doesn't have Openoffice.org installed
> on his system? Who is using abiword and gnumeric instead?

I use abiword and gnumeric instead of writer and calc, however I do
agree that openoffice.org should be included, as far as thunderbird I
prefer claws and a few other mail clients to it so for the time being I
am hoping thunderbird doesn't become the default. 


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