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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not an option, because providing a large scale of applications will
result in no support for all. The point to choosing default applications
is to provide good support and integration of those applications, and
offer something ready out-of-the-box for the user. Advanced users can
always install/remove applications.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

Le lundi 01 février 2010 à 10:19 -0500, Jeff Stone a écrit :
> 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:
>         
>                 `
>                 
>                 
>                 Steve wrote:
>                         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 :)
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         -- 
>         Steve
>         
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