Tweaks pre-configured for Audacious and Chromium.

[jpxsat]

Audacious: activate "Desktop Notifications" (for 3.0 and above) and "Global Hotkey" for multimedia keys.

Chromium: make the gtk theme the default theme instead of that ugly blue that does not fit with lubuntu.

I think it would improve the user experience and would make lubuntu more user-friendly & evecandy.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Richard Foulkes (rbsfou)]

Hi everyone, i read about this on omgubuntu.co.uk and i really do feel LUbuntu could use some of these 'papercuts' to aid usability, so i though i would chime in with a couple of issues / suggestions i have. As XFCE isn't as lightweight as it could be, i really would like to start giving it to users with slow computers, and i'm really looking forward to the 12.04 release, even if it won't get 5-year LTS status.

- When using LibreOffice on Lubuntu, saving a file only opens the native LibreOffice dialogue, not a GTK / Gnome one. Also, the default 'human' theme doesn't really fit in with LUbuntu, but the alternatives aren't much better either. I guess this 'papercut' might be considered irrelevant, as LibreOffice isn't part of the LUbuntu install, but i think a lot of users will install it to ensure better compatibility with M$ office documents than can be provided by Abiword/Gnumeric.

- Also, when i tried LUbuntu out on my Acer Aspire one netbook a while ago i also noticed that the notification says 'click on this icon to connect to a wireless network' - but the networkmanager applet icon on the panel doesn't actually match the icon displayed in the notification!

- Also, would it be possible to add in some power management support to lubuntu? e.g. wattOS uses LXDE, but also installs the XFCE power management app, allowing one to configure suspend / hibernate options and so on. Ideally, LXDE would do this upstream - seeing the term 'XFCE' on wattOS does look out of place though!

- From what i've read on omgubuntu.co.uk, it's been implied that the nice new 'Software Centre' for LUbuntu won't be installed by default - is this indeed the case?

I don't know how easy it is for the LUbuntu team to suggest improvements to LXDE proper upstream, but here's a few things i would love to see too, some of which i believe would radically improve usability:

-- Support for 'special' icons on the desktop ('Computer', 'Network' and so on - with an appropriate context menu in pcmanfm - after all, pcmanfm does already have support for computer:/// and network:/// URIs). I can emulate this behaviour with a .desktop file in /etc/skel/Desktop/ , but the context menu really doesn't make sense on the resulting icon (also see next point)

-- If a '.desktop' file is seen by pcmanfm, don't treat it as a text file ('open with leafpad'), and implement / reuse a dialogue allowing these 'shortcuts' to be configured

-- Allow an 'applications' icon to be placed on the desktop - OR at least allow pcmanfm to be run with "menu://applications/" as a parameter - also, the context menu on items in this 'directory' having appropriate options too (probably just 'open' tbh - 'uninstall' would be amazing - though probably unfeasible across different package managers / knowing which package provided the .desktop file and so on)

-- Desktop icon positions automatically being saved (rather than requesting this be done specifically) - currently i have to edit /etc/skel/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu - and enter the co-ordinates manually if i wish them to be displayed in a certain 'order'.

-- Ability to create custom icons for certain items - such as the users' 'Documents', 'Music' etc. fold...

[jpxsat (jpxsat)]

Adding to the request: Chromium should show openbox borders instead of his own window decoration.
I'm trying it with 11.10 Lubuntu's default theme and the result is quite "integrated" with the whole system.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Just to add some comments on the technical part :
Chromium specific settings are blocked by bug 570812
Audacious usse a .ini specific file for its settings, and a not-so-well structured file for plugins settings (plugin-registry). That may be possible to specify different settings by default, but it needs some testing before.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Lubuntu doesn't use these applications anymore so dropping lubuntu-default-settings.