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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01,February,2010 11:19 PM, Jeff Stone wrote:
> 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)?"

I prefer to have sensible defaults in the installer, with the option of changing
these later on after the installation, not during. Even if browser choice is a
fairly religious thing, as long as you don't prevent people from using the
browser they want to use, it's fine.

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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