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[Jeff Stone <stone1343@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, whichever browser you chose, a bunch of potential users are
going to be turned off. An alternative to consider is initially install no
browser, then have a post-install script that will ask the user to decide,
something like this:

Browser:
1. Firefox (default)
2. Midori
3. Epiphany
4. Arora
5. Chromium
6. none
etc.

Office:
1. Abiword + Gnumeric (default)
2. Openoffice.org
3. none

Image editor:

Music player:

Launcher:
1. Kupfer

IM Client:

etc

The script might not have to do anything more than a few sudo apt-get
installs. I don't know if this breaks some Ubuntu philosopy, but I think it
opens the distro up to a *much* wider audience.

I'm sure you can't make dramatic changes to Ubiquity, and I know you don't
want the user to have to make a lot of decisions at install time, but I'd
*FAR* rather pick between a), b) and c), and know that the config is setup
properly than to have to figure out how to delete one package and install
another. You could even start with with the question "Do you want to select
packages other than the defaults (Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric etc)?"

Jeff

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:40:35 -0000, David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) <
> ethnopunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Steve wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:27:58 -0000, 神癒礁湖 <rafaellaguna@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>  LOL. Discussion about browser is out of the box! :-)
>>>>
>>>> OK, fully agree with Julián Alarcón and Jonay Santana. I'm only a
>>>> designer (and was a coder, but not now). Mother's impressions are good
>>>> as they are perfect beta testers.
>>>>
>>>> Midori and Arora are the best browser for this release / distro. Arora
>>>> was even capable to load complex certificates accesing the tricky
>>>> goverment pages (educational ministry, for example) and not Midori. So,
>>>> equation gets simple.
>>>>
>>>> We have to keep an eye on speed, easyness and also features, and Midori
>>>> lack a bit of functions that are already implemented on Arora.
>>>>
>>>> If anybody wants a geek distro try compiling a minial Gentoo with that
>>>> rare fork of KDE. Lubuntu must be installable on any machine with ANY
>>>> user.
>>>>
>>>>  Not tried Arora, another one to look at.
>>> As the browser is probably the most important piece of software, from a
>>> users perspective, this has to be got right.  The problem for me is, I like
>>> my 'bells & whistles" on my browser and find it hard to use some of the
>>> simpler ones.  I’m quite the opposite with media players, I dislike all this
>>> play list silliness and other complications.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Chromium is great. However, I still think the distro should be called
>> Lewbuntu. :)
>>
>>  I thought LoUbuntu :)
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> Steve
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