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[Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I prefer option 2 because a vanilla GNOME can't attend end users.


2012/12/2 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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