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How to make lubuntu better

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PCMan, the founder of LXDE, has some ideas about "how to make lubuntu better", that I would like to share with you.One thing I think every developer can do to make Lubuntu better is quite simple. Lubuntu developers can help check if dialogs in LXDE programs can conform to Gnome HIG. Currently, most dialogs in PCManFM/libfm are designed with Gnome HIG in mind, but there are still some missing bits. Since glade is used to create those dialogs, it's not difficult to fix them. If a dialog is too big for devices with small screen like Netbooks, "this is a bug" and should be reported in the trackers. Help is also needed to make them fit small screens. Most of time I develop them with small screen in mind so…
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lubuntu Lucid preparations

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The real first release of lubuntu should be for Lucid (10.04), in six months. To prepare it, I began to write 3 specifications [1] about the future Lubuntu, to hold discussion about some aspects of it. I hope to be at the Ubuntu UDS [2] to work on them. Feel free to contribute to them (with constructive arguments, not troll please :)) Nothing is decided, and help in various aspects to make Lubuntu 10.04 rocking, will be very appreciate :) [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-artwork https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-default-applications https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lubuntu-lucid-packaging-policy [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS
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