Re: [Lxp-users] Using LXP and liking it...

[Myles G. <rm...@te...>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:29:33 +0100
"Manuel Carrasco" <man...@us...> wrote:

> Hello Myles

Hello! It's been a while since we corresponded, good to hear from you.

> Finally I've released lxp with:
> 1.- A new program in perl to generate system menus. This will replace
> icewm-menu-gnome2.
> 2.- A script to allow the user to select her favorite desktop (idesk,
> xfdesktop, kdesktop or nautilus).
> 3.- Support for .deb distributions
> 3.- Other minor fixes

Sounds like you've been pretty busy :-) You know, your timing is
*perfect*!! Believe it or not I had just finished a net-install of Debian
Etch when I got your email. Unfortunately it took me a little longer to
restore all my files/applications than I thought it would. I just
downloaded the .deb files a few minutes ago, installed them and I'm
currently using LXP.

> I'd like you try this release and comment it.
> Thank you very much for your suggestions
>=20
> Manuel Carrasco

Well, I've only been logged into LXP for about 5 minutes so far but I
definitely like what I'm seeing!! Very much indeed.

The new menu is awesome, every entry (and there are tons of them...) has an
icon and so far I haven't found any entries that 'don't work'. I'm not
going to try them all as I would be here all night clicking on menu entries.
I've just now spent about 10 minutes going though the menu starting
applications and switching themes back and forth with nothing bad
happening. Nice work.=20

I'll keep 'torture testing' LXP on Debian Etch for the next few days but I
think it will be pretty safe to say it's been tested under Debian as well
as Ubuntu/Xubuntu and Fedora Core 5 (I've tested it myself on those
distros).

Switching between idesk, nautilus and 'none' works well - I haven't
installed Xfce yet but that should be completed pretty soon so I'll be able
to play around some more <grin>. Would it be possible to add rox-filer to
the already impressive list of possible desktops? I know there are a lot of
people using Rox with Icewm so it might be a good idea to add it to the
list. I'm going to be busy for most of tomorrow (Thursday) but I should be
able to look through the configs later in the day and maybe I can hack out
a patch to include Rox... we'll see :-)

Anyway, thank you for your attention to detail(s) and for bringing LXP into
this world, it's a very useful project. Have you thought about getting a
PayPal account and/or setting up a bank account so that people could make
donations to the project? I looked around the site but didn't see
anything...

Thanks again,
Myles
--
Myles Green
Geek by nature. Linux by choice.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.=20
It's already tomorrow in Australia" (Charles Schultz)