On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Carl Richell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Matthew, > > That is not the case: Ubuntu has been using Gnome continuously since 2004, > and when I designed the first iteration of Ubiquity in 2005 we referred to > it explicitly as the “Gnome User Interface”. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ > UbuntuExpress/GnomeUserInterface> > > > I probably didn't explain what I meant well. With what's changed since > moving to Unity, and now coming back, particularly GNOME Initial Setup, > Ubiquity does more than is necessary. That's only because we like GNOME > Initial Setup and the out-of-box experience it provides to customers. > How does ubiquity do more than necessary? Which steps do you think should be removed? Is it simply a matter of "it does more than we need if GNOME Initial Setup will run afterwards"? > Our idea is a Ubiquity that only installs the operating system leaving > user configuration to GNOME Initial Setup. > > That's a fair idea, but I think the Ubiquity OEM install option is what would work best for you *right now*; meaning that it already does only install the operating system and leaves the configuration to the end user (just not using GNOME Initial Setup). I know it has issues and is generally not as well tested as the main install path; but this is fixable. If people really care about the OEM install, then they test it, file bugs, and we fix them. Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/65B58DA1 818A D123 0992 275B 23C2 CF89 C67B B4D6 65B5 8DA1
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