I can’t really speak to why these specific ones were used or their “incompatibility” – as I mentioned, I didn’t make these and I’m not artistically inclined, they look fine to me.

sry for the rant, but as long as there was an artwork-lead in the xubuntu project this wouldn’t have happened.

But I’m also very glad there are options.

It looks like the default clock applet only supports local time. I encourage you to submit a bug if you care. It’s in the gnome-panel package, so you probably know you can report a bug / feature request via the command:

“ubuntu-bugs gnome-panel”

I’ve been doing a lot of that lately.

Do you know you can embed SVG markup directly in an HTML5 document, so the image isn’t even a separate file? http://codinginparadise.org/projects/svgweb/samples/javascript-samples/svg_inline.html?svg.render.forceflash=false

I hear that out of the box, Xubuntu isn’t a whole lot faster, but I turn off a bunch of things so it runs better. There are loads of varying benchmarks out there, but with Gnome I was seeing a RAM footprint of about 600M upon bootup, with my very basic Xubuntu it was more like 300 (this was with 2G of ram, so both were using as much as they could). It’s nice when my desktop environment isn’t eating up lots of RAM I’d like to actually use on doing other things.

On the flip side I actually do use Ubuntu w/ Gnome on my netbook. Everything “just works” and I don’t need to manually do things like mount network shares, and that’s lovely. On my desktop I don’t mind going the extra mile and doing some things manually and fixing things until they’re perfect, since I tend to have time to do that, unlike when I’m travelling on my netbook and need things to immediately work with a lot of flexibility (different network types, different types of shares, etc).

It’s one of the reasons I stopped supporting IE on my website. Not only does IE not support SVG, it doesn’t support the standard way to fail back to a raster image. But the main reason is lack of support for Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml

I used Xubuntu on a laptop with very old hardware for a while. I didn’t find it in any way exciting. The other person using the same laptop said they didn’t find it any faster than gnome.

Are their sufficient Xubuntu Lucid / Maverick tours on youtube?

I really like how much stuff just works with all of gnome.

I *really* like the basic concept of the worst named window manager, “awesome”. No mouse. Automatic window tiling and stuff. But it was really short on the stuff just working.

And admittedly I did run fluxbox prior to XFCE, and still do on a couple machines. I switched to XFCE when fluxbox made a configuration file change and I couldn’t be bothered to rewrite my configs. I wanted pretty gui configuration menus and XFCE offered a great combination of easy to edit while still being pretty slim.

Made by a brazilian guy it could not be better. So fast and so stable.

windowmaker.info

Choice is indeed everything!

For me, it’s fluxbox and as many *curses apps as I can find to do the jobs I want – all the way.

Yeah Baby!