Hello. In a separate post, it was posed that wicd be included in the next release. In the spirit of that post, I agree that wicd would be a wonderful addition. Here are some other thoughts:

1. I would like to see a search tool such as catfish included.
2. I would like to see a calendar app such as plan included. (gdeskcal has quite a few dependencies and increases the startup time a little bit.)
3. Perhaps vlc could replace mplayer, xmms, and streamtuner (and in my case gmusicbrowser as well). vlc does have a lot of dependencies, but in total about the same as the other apps. Perhaps vlc doesn't stack up against some of the features offered by the individual apps (no album cover art, not as many stream choices, etc.) but it does provide more options in other areas (equalizer, dvd menu access, etc.). I believe it is reasonably light also.
4. Perhaps gnome-power-manager could be included if there is a fairly large user base with laptops.
5. Perhaps the dhcp lag time during the boot process can be fixed; otherwise, installing a bootsplash is kinda pointless for wireless computers (the dhcp hang causes the bootsplash to turn"off" and go into text mode).
6. If a bootsplash is included, perhaps you could install the one I saw at mepislovers - I believe it was created by larry. (I think I lost the link.) The one I saw had a similar look and feel as the current grub bootsplash.
7. Perhaps you could include a link in the fb menu to the user's style directory - just to make things a little easier on the newbies (and us old-timers as well.)
8. Not a huge deal, but maybe include a few more linux, mepis, antix, etc. bookmarks in iceweasel - maybe even to the forum and homepage on iceweasel's bookmark bar.

Thanks for reading.

john

Some good points there (I most certainly agree with the vlc suggestion, as although it's a little heavy, it does almost everything) and i'd also like to suggest perhaps some kind of"Easy" Net browsing/sharing ability for local networks. I think it's the one thing that i've found to be missing from almost any"Lightweight" distro that i've tried.

Gnome & KDE seem to have this covered nicely, and it would be great see something similar for the XFCE, Flux/OpenBox distros etc. __{{emoticon}}__

Good suggestions.

For Audio files I use Aqualung. Not many dependencies. Good for podcasts.catching streams etc. and album art.

Search tool--search monkey-works good

for network browsing I use fusesmb. My network mounts automatically to a folder in my /home, one click away.

eriefisher

eriefisher wrote:Good suggestions.

For Audio files I use Aqualung. Not many dependencies. Good for podcasts.catching streams etc. and album art.

I tried Aqualung a little while ago in Xubuntu, but for some reason it wouldn't run at all...?? I'll download & give it a try on antiX.... maybe i'll have better luck. __{{emoticon}}__

for network browsing I use fusesmb. My network mounts automatically to a folder in my /home, one click away.

How easy did you find it getting fusesmb to work? Everytime i try to use it (Apart from in Zenwalk where it works flawlessly) i just can't get it to do anything. LOL!! It's probably me doing something completely wrong or not setting something up correctly, but i've tried it on several distros/machines, and still can't get it working. Pyneighbourhood's the same..... i can get it working, but it's not too intuitive (to me at least) and invariably i end up installing Konqueror & a whole host of stuff that i don't really want.

I used a how-to from Gentoo and it worked perfectly.


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It shows it with XFCE(wich I use) but it should work with anything. I switch over to Fluxbox and it still fine. Ther site looks like it's down at the moment but check back with it later.

eriefisher