On Nov 10, 2007 10:34 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2007 9:08 PM, Nilesh Trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I wrote a short and simple guide for those who are trying out Ubuntu for > > the first time. This will also save time for us who have to do handholding > > for them while we make their Ubuntu installation usable. > > > > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Fixing_Gutsy > > > > Please contribute to it and make it a definitive place to point people to. > > > I have few comments and I need inputs from other page before fixing the page. > > 1. I have objection to the title 'Fixing Gutsy'. There is nothing wrong with > Gutsy. 'Customizing Gutsy' is more appropriate title.
Agreed. "Fixing Gutsy" is not appropriate. But things like the virtualbox fix can be difficult to find for newbies. > 2. I really fail to understand what functionality Adobe Acrobat Reader > provides that home users require which is not by provided by Evince (the > default PDF reader in Ubuntu). Apart from that it is non-Free software. Haven't looked into details but evince screws up a lot of brochures etc. on printing and we get a good number of them. > 3. If you install all gstreamer plugins and w32codecs you can play almost > every media file except .rm. Also you can play those files in Firefox since > totem-gstreamer-firefox-plugin is installed by default. So I don't know what > are you trying to achieve by recommending mozilla-plugin-vlc. Again. VLC often plays a number of files and stream that totem can't. It's good to have an option, especially in case of a media player to be used on a college campus. It can also run as a streaming server. That's how we saw the India-Pakistan T20 final in our dorms. ;-) Additionally, I prefer using applications that are available on multiple platforms. That is why Thunderbird takes priority over Evolution. It reduces the switching pains. > 4. I haven't yet felt the need to run a Windows application. So at least I > don't see a need to recommend wine. It defeats the purpose of using a Free > operating system. SPSS, Download Accelerator, Guitar Pro and FL Studio are on my wine menu. > 5. Now the most important. Your page is IMHO just a variation of > http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats targeting a specific > version of Ubuntu. We already have loads of guides about how to play > restricted formats. What we need are the guides to achieve some other > specific tasks. I hope you will take this as constructive criticism. We need guides on a lot of topics. I just recorded what I was doing for a lot of new Ubuntu joinees and now I can just point them to this short page. Ubuntuguide has most of this information but it is scattered around in various sections. For some newbies, a longer apt-get command that "fixes" most of their issue may be less scary. This page solves a real problem for them. Thank for your inputs. Feel free to make changes if appropriate. cheers nilesh -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
