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[Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit.happy@xxxxxxxxx>]

We all have our personal opinions. I think better to have a poll and ask
users. If you all agree, I can post a poll on worldofgnome.org
On Dec 3, 2012 1:53 PM, "Satyajit Sahoo" <satyajit.happy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had tried Web (Epiphany) recently and it has many glitches, kinda ruins
> the experience. Why ship software that people cannot actually use
> comfortably. And if people don't gonna use other software except the Gnome
> ones, there is no reason to choose Ubuntu. You may not install Firefox or
> LibreOffice (I personally prefer Chrome over Firefox), but most people
> will. Web and Gnome Office don't yet provide the same level of experience
> that Firefox and LibreOffice provide. And, being almost close to a pure
> Gnome distro, even Fedora ships Firefox instead of Epiphany, and I think
> it's a thoughtful decision. Ideology seems great. But there is a huge
> difference from practical application. I myself is a huge Gnome fan, since
> the days of Gnome 2. But I would have never been be able to use Gnome if I
> sticked to the pure experience.
> On Dec 3, 2012 1:11 PM, "Shane Lee" <shaneydroid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Well I wouldn't install Firefox or libre. I would rather have the pure
>> gnome experience where possible or I may as well just install shell on top
>> of regular Ubuntu.
>> On 3 Dec 2012 07:36, "Satyajit Sahoo" <satyajit.happy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Users will install Firefox and LibreOffice anyways. The so called "Pure
>>> Gnome Experience" sounds great, but practically the experience is not
>>> great, at least for now. Why not give users "The Best Gnome Experience"
>>> instead of "Pure Gnome Experience"? I think the reason to choose Ubuntu as
>>> a base is to provide "The best Gnome Experience". If anyone wanted the pure
>>> Gnome Experience, why won't he/she use Fedora instead?
>>> On Dec 3, 2012 11:04 AM, "Vibhav Pant" <vibhavp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Though I am with the idea of including LibreOffice and Firefox,
>>>> wouldn't it defeat the purpose of providing a pure GNOME experience?
>>>> On Dec 3, 2012 7:40 AM, "chris hermansen" <clhermansen@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Everaldo Canuto
>>>>> <everaldo.canuto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> > Ops, just fixing, when I write Empathy I mean Epiphany :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> ouch you are right, that kind of takes our credibility away, doesn't
>>>>> it :-)  "no wonder those losers install firefox since they try to use
>>>>> empathy as a web browser"
>>>>>
>>>>> I still vote for a Gnome interface on a LibreOffice / Firefox / Ubuntu
>>>>> One experience, even though I'm blushing.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Chris Hermansen · clhermansen at gmail dot com
>>>>>
>>>>> C'est ma façon de parler.
>>>>>
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