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[Nathanel Titane <nathanel.titane@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alessandro has a good point, and I would rather go with option 1: Gnome
using ubuntu base


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Everaldo Canuto
<everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Well, let me share my experiences here in Brazil. I am a consultant and
> have a few customers, all small offices running Linux (all Ubuntu) and
> after Unity they start to complain about changes.
>
> They are all normal users, none of them are technical and also none of
> them are able to run a single command line (well, maybe some of them can
> but they wont).
>
> Some months ago I install GNOME Shell on some computers, change the
> default theme and make small changes and first users start to love their
> Linux machines. With Ubuntu GNOME Remix I installed some other machines and
> just receive more complains about Firefox/Chrome, LibreOffice and USC.
>
> So, after some tweaks I get a perfect box for them that is this two
> commands:
>
> apt-get -y purge \
>     abiword gnumeric onboard gwibber* gnome-orca whoopsie \
>     gnome-games gnome-games-data gnome-sudoku aisleriot gnomine \
>     gnome-games-extra-data gnuchess gnuchess-book libgtkspell-3-0
> python-virtkey
>
> apt-get -y install  \
>  firefox chromium-browser gimp inkscape xchat software-center\
> libreoffice nautilus-dropbox unrar p7zip lm-sensors \
>  ubuntu-restricted-extras icedtea-6-plugin flashplugin-installer \
> gdebi-core thunderbird
>
> Also, I install some locale for pt-br and they are now so happy!
>
> I have my custom iso that includes all of this things and I also agree
> that I will never get a perfect box without some tweaks but you guys need
> to know how happy Ubuntu users could be with this two apt-get lines.
>
> Ah, some people prefer Firefox, other Chome but all agree that Firefox
> looks more "integrated" to the system, probably because firefox theme is
> more Gnomeish.
>
> I am not proposing to make all of this changes, I know that we have
> problems to ship java, restricted-extras and flash but we can't have a
> "Linux for Human Beings" without LibreOffice, Software Center and Firefox.
>
>
>
> 2012/12/2 Alessandro Scarozza <xan.scale@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> we must make a decision: do we want gnome vanilla over the ubuntu
>> repository or we want a ubuntu with gnome shell instead of unity?
>>
>> both ideas are good, but they are at odds. I think a poll open to the
>> mailing list is the best thing.
>>
>> 1 gnome OS over ubuntu repo is like gnome reference iso but using
>> ubuntu packages and repository
>> 2 ubuntu with gnome shell is ubuntu without unity and with gnome-shell
>> package
>>
>> 2012/12/2 Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > I think that we don't need to think too much about this decision, most
>> of us
>> > agree with USC.
>> >
>> > Also, maybe we need to patch USC a little to be sure it look ok in
>> Adwaita
>> > theme. I think that one of the reason we did not include it at first was
>> > because it looks a little odd on GNOME.
>> >
>> > Now we just need to include Firefox and LibreOffice and we will have a
>> user
>> > friendly desktop by default.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2012/12/2 Samuel Monsarrat <smonsarr.junk@xxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >> +1, I find GPK is less than usable at the moment, and while I
>> personally
>> >> instantly install Synaptic and use that, USC is by far the best bet at
>> the
>> >> moment.
>> >>
>> >> Samuel.
>> >>
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