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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1 to this but make Arora default. Firefox is garbage


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Jeff Stone <stone1343@xxxxxxxxx> 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)?"
>
> 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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