On Fri, Jan 29, 2016, at 12:00 AM, Daniel M Gessel wrote: > Created launch pad account. > > I’m sure this is a total Newbie question, but is there a 25 word reason > for not using compiz/Unity? It feels pretty solid, though I’d like to > have more flexibility controlling the environment with my touch tablet. > >
Ubuntu Studio is not specific to a desktop environment, and there are plans (but no concrete work) on making Ubuntu Studio desktop agnostic, making it possible to choose your favorite DE during installation of Ubuntu Studio (when having an internet connection). XFCE was chosen when Gnome went Gnome3, and Unity was young, and those were different times. A lot of people had the idea that both those DEs were moving away from the desktop, which apparently was not true, but there is some controversy around both those DEs, and well, IMO there isn't a clear candidate for a default DE, if we were to choose one today. But, since we already do have a default DE, it would require some work on changing it - nothing impossible, but still, work that someone would need to do. And I would like to add this word of advice if you want to become a contributor: If you have the support of the community here, you can just go ahead and do any kind of development as you please. Each developer is free to do the things they are willing to do, unless having made some sort of a commitment - like say being a project lead, or some other kind of lead - where you will be responsible for certain things and at least need to make sure they are working and functional, but beyond that - since we are all volunteers, no one can order anyone else to do anything - which is why it can be hard to make something happen, unless you are willing to do some work yourself. So, if you really feel like switching DEs is a good idea, keep the topic going, and see who would like to work on that. I would rather make Ubuntu Studio desktop agnostic instead, and improve how one can make any Ubuntu flavor quickly suitable for audio production specifically, since the other areas don't suffer as much from generic system settings. On that note, when someone installs ubuntustudio-audio, or ubuntustudio-audio-core, we should probably let -controls notify the user that adding RT privilege might be a good idea, if that hasn't been added already. So, that is actually one huge little detail to improve the life of any DE user who wants to make music on their Ubuntu. /Kaj (Current Project Lead) -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
