Update on Personal Testing.

I have both successfully built both a "Full featured" Desktop and a "Minimalist Base install" but not without issues.

First being native network browsing , Pcfileman is unable to do this without manually mounting the shares via the CLI. Maybe a script master could work something up?

Second being without nautilus dependencies Dropbox nor Ubuntu One will work. (Which for me is a must and I'm sure it is for others)

Now I have verified that Brasero no longer requires Gnome dependencies so that may be an option for burning functionalities.

Also both Open Office and Abiword work fine but with Abiword performing better , Open Office performance is acceptable , Experience may vary depending on system specifications , But honestly pretty much every thing performs great on this DE.

If anyone would be kind enough to either educate me or help solve these issues , I'll keep working on it.

Thanks!

**Posting to mailing list as well

have you tried vlc-nox (doesn't have the qt dependencies) I have a feeling we might be able to whip up a python frontend (or something easy/cool like that)

Adam

adambot wrote:have you tried vlc-nox (doesn't have the qt dependencies) I have a feeling we might be able to whip up a python frontend (or something easy/cool like that)

Adam

So VLC the front end uses gnome dependencies?

This is what you have to do to mount samba shares and then dismount after use with Pcfileman , Also to mount drives you need Gnome dependencies , This is a hurdle.

sudo mount.cifs //ip adress/<sharedDoc> ~/<Directory to mount>
eg. sudo mount.cifs http://203.182.1.3/Documents ~/samba