Do you want to present at UOS then? On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Jörn Schönyan <joern.schoen...@web.de> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Am Dienstag, 11. November 2014 22:10:58 CEST schrieb Walter Lapchynski: >> >> Please join us for a Lubuntu-specific session at the Ubuntu Online >> Summit! It takes place from 1900-1955 UTC on Thursday 13 November >> 2014. It's called "Latest Developments in Lubuntu Development:" >> >> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22341/latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development/ > > At first, I hope I can attend, I think it will be interesting! >> >> >> It will cover the current state of the team and what we're working on, >> with lots of info on LXQt. If you look at the blueprint you'll get an >> overview of what we're going to cover: >> >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1411-latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development >> >> If you guys have any other topics you would like to discuss, please >> let me know. I plan on working on the presentation tonight, so please >> let me know as soon as possible. Thanks! >> > I have some suggestions about Lubuntu-Next, too - like Nio. One is specific > to Lubuntu, so here it is: > > PCManFM supports custom actions (PCManFM-Qt does support them, too, already > tested that). Maybe we could implement some of them, simmilar to: > http://lubuntublog.blogspot.de/p/actions_24.html > > There are many easy tasks (like change wallpaper), there are some tasks that > would need a bit more work, but would be really handy. My first idea: easy > and totally lightweight backup with rsync. We encourage users to make > backups, so we should help them ;-) > > > My next item is not exactly related to Lubuntu itself, but could be > important for some users. I've posted something about that in Facebook's > Lubuntu-Offtopic group some days ago, so I will only copy/paste my thread > from there: > > "Did someone here try btrfs with compression? For me, it's working really > good. I did a test with Kubuntu, which takes quite a lot of time to boot to > the desktop and with compression, it boots in roughly half the time, > compared to no compression. Chromium starts much quicker, too. This test was > on a third generation, mobile i5 with a quite slow hard disk drive. > I would like to know, if it would be suitable for a lower end computer, too. > It could also be really useful for the first generations of eeePCs, which > only have 4 GB HDDs. > At the very moment, it is tricky to install with compression. Here [1] are > some tricks to do it at the install time. Personally, I did the compression > after installing - unfortunately, I can only provide a german guide for that > [2]. This wouldn't be suitable for the mentioned 4GB harddisks. You can find > a bug report about that on Launchpad, too [3]. > [1] http://askubuntu.com/…/trick-installer-to-use-btrfs-root-wi… > [2] http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Installieren_auf_Btrfs-Dateisyst… > [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu…/+source/ubiquity/+bug/204187"; > > So if we could convince the Ubiquity team to make it possible to install > *buntu on a compressed hdd, that would make life easier for some of our > users. As I stated, it should get some attention by testers, too. Maybe > someone with a old machine could try it before the summit? > > Best regards, Jörn!
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