Hi, I'm basically welcome to the shift into XFCE.
But I'm concern about the difficulties of communication for support between Ubuntu users and XFCE users. There are many differences of system application. Of cource, GNOME system application also run in XFCE but it will not be as default.
I worked as a member of Ubuntu Japanese Local Community and fortunately I have never heard the decition to purge GNOME desktop environment in 11.10. My LoCO has Ubuntu's membership and GNOME deveroppers and translators but all of them have never heared the announcement of the lack in 11.10. We can see it merely in Mark Shuttleworth's weblog. In other words, it's just a his opinion, not community decision.
I think the users of XFCE (Xubuntu) is not so much yet and Ubuntu Studio's users community is not so large, too. I can understand XFCE desktop environment is fit to our aim, Linux Multimedia Workstation. But we have been gaining a large support from Ubuntu users because both are based on GNOME desktop environment.
I think the desicion will not be so late after we get the official announcement of the lack of GNOME environment in 11.10.
In this two weeks, Ubuntu Developer Summit is held in Hungary and this summit make the desition for the form of 11.10. I suggest that our desicion should wait for the discussion in UDS and get enough information about it.
Best Regards Takashi Sakamoto o-taka...@sakamocchi.jp -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
