DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Cut down on programs.
I think you guys could save a lot of room if you cut down on redundant programs. I mean, 2 web browsers?, 3 text editors? Doesn't this detract from DSL's goal of compactness? And if the user doesn't like the current programs, he/she could simply use myDSL or Synaptic, no prob. Also, I think there should be some easier way to install DSL.
P.S., I'm sorry if I sound rude. I have no social life, none.
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In my opinion... monkey, dillo, emelfm, xzvg, xpdf, Beaver, tcc, FL Writer and Siag will be moving to /dev/null imediatly
XV, Xine, Rox, Scite and gv and only one script programming language (perl, ruby, lua, tcl/tk... i can be choose...) is the best option. Lout and Gnuplot can substitute the office package (awk is the best !!!).
We have TED, Abiword, Lyx... we dont need Siag Office... or need ?
you want at least one gui editor and a tui editor. I think nano is the redundant one but thats only a couple of kilobytes.
as for 2 browsers that needs to stay, DSL is run on a lot of machines that can only handle dillo.
Siag is unusably buggy from my experiences, crashes every 5 minutes.
I agree that tcc should go, if you're gonna program C you're want gcc. I would love beaver to be replaced by scite or even better nedit.
Emelfm scared me the first time I used DSL, its too much information at once for a noob and nowadays I only use aterm. I reckon replace it with something simpler for people not used to linux.
I think the most redundant feature is JVM, why add another window manager? fluxbox is very nice. I mourn the loss of slit.
The slit is still there...where do you think the new mixer and mounter are loaded? No need to mourn. The dockapps are not there, but being mostly single-file applications with very few dependencies they are easy to add to DSL.
I don't think DSL was ever intended to be noob-friendly. When you consider that there is practically no documentation included (most distros include a huge pile of man, html and info pages), a new linux user would have to look outside of the distro for help with practically everything. In addition to that, most applications that are intended to be "inuitive" for those accustomed to windows/mac are much too large to be included in a 50mb distro. The increasing number of gui configuration tools definitely helps, but I think there will always be hills that transitional users will have to climb.
[QUOTE]I think the most redundant feature is JVM, why add another window manager?[QUOTE]
Because fluxbox and kdrive together produce a memory leak!
I use jwm so I can keep it up. My computer that is. 
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