Ballot (Vote) for Elive main components

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@maxinou

Well, at least for web browsers we have choiced Chromium for 32 bit release and also SMPlayer for media files sur those basis.

seems like they are the best options: chrome for lightness (compared to others) and compatibility and being the most "commonly used browser", smplayer features a lot of things from mplayer and works much more optimally / light (which is a big problem when a slow computer bottlenecks trying to play a video in realtime), its only a good thing but also the most important one lol

@maxinou

For pictures I'm wondering why Geeqie is not included by default since 3.7.8 because is fast, light and intuitive (wheel mouse changes from pictures) and with Viewnior (the new default app) wheel mouse zooms in-out and to move between pictures we must do SHIFT+Wheel mouse....

mmh, geeqie was good and was the default in all other previous versions of elive, but recently it looked a bit ugly (i assume the code has not been updated to the new gtk things?), and viewnor seemed like to be a simple viewer that does the job (do we need anything else than that? more exactly: to edit we have gimp and others, for albums we have shotwell). The wheel thing is a point, but since with shift it works good i assume that is good this way , the question will be if there's a reason to use geeqie than the new viewnor

note: cairo-dock customizations (adding things) seems like to increase the ram required for it to run, the actual settings are pretty enough, maybe we need an extra launcher like for internet and hotkeys (anybody added a launcher, for me it restarts the app)

@yoda

Just saying that if all us prefer a specific tool or look ( theme), shouldn't it be the default ? It has more chance to please new users too ?

good "worth to use" themes can be included by default (just like it does actually), the default one needs to be both beautiful and userfriendly, for example: buttons should be not too small not too big, readable fonts, colors, intuitive elements, etc... i say that because is not easy to find themes that comply's a correct overall usability

@triantares

Like I said before ..... I think we should offer a light and a dark theme as default on boot up like in "Gem" back in the day.

yeah more like a look i think too that the main thing is "dark" vs "light", the actual alpha's are a mix of both lol (but main theme is dark), the result is not bad, but stills a taste thing, an extra light theme could be nice to include too, and if the overall result is better it can be set as default

@triantares

I hate it when others try to tell me what I do and don't want, so I try not to make choices for others either.

it is good and needed to be able to customize everything as one's wish, that's one of the best things that the open source has, and providing a good defaults system makes that just perfect

@triantares

That's a silly proposal, your memory is getting short.

well, its a specific section / place to share our beautiful customizations

@triantares

I've committed the last changes this morning.

tell me when it is more ready so i can make a package for it

@triantares

IMO the "light" themes need to be offered alongside the dark as default choice .... like in early "Topaz".

maybe like an (another) popuped question on desktop start so that the user can switch to a light theme

@triantares

Light theme menu with fixed icons

looks pretty good

note: @triantares I moved your screenshots post to E16 light theme customization , maybe you want to edit it with links or something (not sure if you had already a theme entry or similar)