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Message #00078
Re: Installing Firefox
Good one :) That's true that if this ends up on Joe 6 pack's desktop, it
will probably have been installed by his geek neighbour. So it's the
neighbour's task to install Firefox / LibreOffice for him :)
Le mercredi 24 octobre 2012 à 14:23 -0400, Nathanel Titane a écrit :
> 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>
> 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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