by fsmithred » Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:12 am
I have this debate with myself every time I make a debian-live build. I usually end up with abiword and gnumeric, but I prefer to have the full office suite (OOo/Libre). Part of that is so I can open the pps files that people send me. There's an alternative for that, but it requires wine.
There's a possibility that we'll end up with two builds - lean and bloat. I've been trying out some of the native xfce apps that I don't generally use, like ristretto for an image viewer and squeeze for an archiver, and so far, I still like gthumb and xarchiver better. I was experimenting with xfburn, and it seemed ok, but my dvd drive refuses to create any media with a proper md5sum, so I've given up on it. I'm also about out of media and see no point in buying more, since it's more expensive than hard drives.
Themes: I use a slightly customized Simple-Generic theme (from LXDE) on my desktop. I discovered that the lxde themes can be included without installing lxde. The only customization is that there's no color box around the text on the desktop icons. That happened as a result of a conversation with Dean at the old forum. Anyway, it's mostly gray, and it's a nicer gray than the XFCE-4.4 theme. Gray goes with any color background image, and I'm sick of looking at blue desktops. Green is out, too, because I got sick of that back when I used suse. And brown is just wrong.
Artwork: I have a good friend who's an artist, so I might recruit her for some backgrounds and maybe icons. I usually steal my own backgrounds from APOD or wunderground.com, but most of those are copyrighted, so I wouldn't feel right distributing them. If anyone is a photographer, I'd like some nice photos of the milky way or Orion or some meteor showers.
ps_mem.py: Yes, and probably a few of my own, like flashfire (burn flash cookies) and netinfo (shows local and external IP addresses) and taskfer (command-line todo-list manager).
Release notes: with a link on the desktop.