Hi everyone, (this thread is bottom posting... see below) On 08/12/2014 01:04 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > Den 2014-08-12 03:55, dbyent...@torios.org skrev: >> Hi Ali et al, Thanks for the further refinement for your vision of >> ToriOS. I do have a question. First though, I am totally happy with >> the concept of giving the user a minimal, simple, fast, and small OS >> and then letting them build it as they see fit. My question: Where >> will the users look to for a repository of ToriOS compatible apps? Or >> should it even be a community concern? Specifically, even for a 64 >> bit machine, FF is large, slow, and uses lots of memory. I believe >> Qupzilla is a better fit for ToriOS( 64 or 32 bit). Qup is small, >> fast, and has small memory usage than FF. Additionally, for a 32 bit >> machine why not consider something like Links2 for a browser. It's a >> text( CLI ) browser with limited graphical abilities. It entirely >> conforms to the ToriOS vision. Just my thoughts Best David > Hi everybody, > > Continuing this interesting discussion: > > 0. I think it is a good idea to deliver ToriOS as light as possible, but > with easy options to build the system we want. > > 1. I prefer evince as pdf reader. > > 2. I think we should keep discussing the web browser. I think Midori is > also a good alterntive (lighter than Firefox). > > Old lynx is a text alternative. I don't know Links2, is it better than lynx? > > 3. xterm is lighter than the lxterminal and gnome-terminal, and very > flexible. If you call it with a couple of options from the menu, the > font will be much bigger and nicer than the standard small font, for example > > xterm -fa default -fs 13 & > xterm -fa default -fs 11 & > > Best regards > Nio > I think we all agree with #0 Most of us probably use evince rather than anything else (though I also use the firefox pdf reader)
#2 Midori may be good, but as I recall it never loaded near as quickly as qupzilla has on my old harware. I seem to recall that on my older hardware Chromium took the longest to load (the first time), Firefox second (I have lots of add-ons) Midori was nearly the same as a vanilla FF, Dillo was a bit faster, and Qupzilla loaded in about half of the time Chromium did. Lynx is the only text web-browser I have used to any major extent, and it works well. But, honestly what 'average' user will be glad to have a terminal open when they click on 'Web Browser' icon in their menu? Now, Nio could probably build a bash browser using dialog (can you integrate webkit into dialog??) but realistically we should focus on a browser a casual user will use. Qupzilla is in the 14.04 repositories. And a PPA is available for 12.04. xterm is what I had planned on using, there is no major difference (well... no tabs :( ) there is also roxterm which is also light. -- Regards -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
