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[Julien Olivier <julo42@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good idea. I think you should report a bug upstream instead, though.

Le jeudi 25 octobre 2012 à 06:48 +1100, Tim a écrit :
> How about if we enhanced the "default applications" pane in system
> settings, to handle installing common alternatives.
> 
> For example the 'web' dropdown would show firefox and chromium
> (perhaps greyed out to indicate they are not installed) and clicking
> on them would install the required packages.
> 
> 
> On 25/10/12 06:35, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
> 
> > +1 for Chrome/Chromium. But since Chrome is not OSS, I think it
> > cannot be included. And Chromium doesn't have stable releases. 
> > 
> > 
> > And yeah, an option in Ubiquity will be great!
> > 
> The ubiquity devs don't seem to want flavour specific code in
> ubiquity, so we are kind of limited as to what we can do here.
> > 
> > On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Nathanel Titane wrote:
> >         OK, so let us do this the good old fashioned way, list all
> >         the given positive points to the browser you would like to
> >         see in the distribution? 
> >         
> >         
> >         Chrome/ium:
> >         Out of the box web intergration features (google account)
> >         Extensive array of plugins and extensions
> >         Complies with Ubuntu open standards - Flash easily deployed
> >         to or comes preinstalled with.
> >         Ease of use and visual simplicity comparable to
> >         'Web' (Epiphany)
> >         Built in visual, technical and customization oriented
> >         features (GTK theme selection, privacy, cloud, etc)
> >         --Does not clash with the rest of the application set
> >         (visually at least) 
> >         Does not require dragging dependencies or modifying package
> >         descriptors (stated earlier), nor is the Unity, or
> >         global-menu integration.
> >         Good choice because Firefox is not a strict feature
> >         requirement to this spin
> >         Provides robust settings sync over the web.
> >         
> >         
> >         
> >         On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Jeremy Bicha
> >         <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                 On 24 October 2012 14:56, Alessandro Scarozza
> >                 <xan.scale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >                 > if the first start up it's open an application
> >                 that lets you choose a number of things:
> >                 > - add gnome3 ppa
> >                 > - to install LibreOffice
> >                 > - to install firefox
> >                 > - more...
> >                 
> >                 
> >                 Kubuntu did ship a Firefox installer launcher for a
> >                 while. I don't
> >                 think that's something we want as I want users to be
> >                 able to easily
> >                 install anything, not just Firefox.
> >                 
> >                 Let's use a different discussion thread if we want
> >                 to discuss shipping
> >                 LibreOffice and reserve this one for web browsers.
> >                 
> >                 Jeremy
> >                 
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