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Re: Installing Firefox

 

Quite frankly, what are the odds of 'human beings' using this spin?
On 2012-10-24 2:19 PM, "Everaldo Canuto" <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, yes, that is why we are using Web (Epiphany) on 12.10.
>
> But there's one thing that we can't ignore, the end users, for us
> developers uninstall Firefox and use Web as  default is really easy, for
> end users no.
>
> I do prefer Chromium and don't use office suite at all but I have this
> feedback about GNOME Remix and the "normal users" claim for Firefox and
> LibreOffice. So, we really must decide if we are going to hear our users or
> if like GNOME/Fedora/openSUSE project "we will decide what is better for
> them".
>
> I hope we take option one, otherwise we will just be a deb based Fedora
> and stay far from "human beings".
>
> Cheers,
>
> 2012/10/24 Nathanel Titane <nathanel.titane@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I second that.
>> On 2012-10-24 2:04 PM, "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I truly prefer that we stick with the "pure Gnome" vision as much as
>>> possible :^)
>>>
>>> I mean ..... um ..... well .... isn't a large part of the project to
>>> help develop Gnome apps?
>>>
>>> I rather prefer that scenario :^)
>>>
>>> Lance
>>>
>>> PS: Maybe we can
>>>
>>> --- On *Wed, 10/24/12, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>*wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-gnome] Installing Firefox
>>> To: "Lance" <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: ubuntu-gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 11:50 AM
>>>
>>> I my opnion we should ship 13.04 with firefox, most people I have
>>> installed Ubuntu GNOME says that no problem to manually install Chromium
>>> but Firefox must comes by default. It is the same LibreOffice.
>>>
>>> Just created a blueprint last night so we can track some ideas for
>>> 13.04.
>>>
>>> Ah, thanks for the type about Firefox installation.
>>>
>>> 2012/10/24 Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx<http://mc/compose?to=lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>>
>>> I've been playing quite a bit, basically trying to script my desired
>>> changes post-install, and I notice that just directly installing 'firefox'
>>> also wants to install 'firefox-globalmenu' which may not be a big deal
>>> since we use 'ubuntu-gnome-default-settings' but I'm finding it preferable
>>> to use the command:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install firefox
>>>
>>> Is this something we should think about going forward in Raring?
>>>
>>> I hope I'm not just being a pain in the neck. I'm very impressed with
>>> the simplicity of Mutter, and even more so with Metacity + Gnome panel.
>>>
>>> I find that the classic (no effects) session runs quite well on as
>>> little as an 1100 mhz CPU w/VIA P4M800 graphics & 1 GB of RAM ;^)
>>>
>>> No doubt Lubuntu will work just as well, but I've loved Gnome for a
>>> long, long time and it's nice to be able to use what one loves.
>>>
>>> Lance
>>>
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