wine is huge, and is updated to frequently to be a proper default program. i forget the rest of the reasons, but someone will know.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Colorwheel OS <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I forked a few things to respin a distro off Xubuntu 12.04 back in > January, and a few days ago I signed on to help with testing Xubuntu 13.04 > as a way of "giving back". However, now I am probably going to say goodbye > to the respin and focus on testing 13.04 and getting it off the ground. > It's almost like with 13.04 (I hated 12.10, which overheated my laptop) a > wishlist of mine was completed (no point in respinning a distro that has > everything you need on it): So first let me note why I love this beta > already and why I totally see it growing the userbase: > > 1. With Gnumeric the office suite is there-- granted I am no friend of > AbiWord (I actually use a tiny Windows word processor anyway that works > better on the system) so I agree with the poster about LibreOffice from a > couple months ago-- but I get the size thing, and it's easy enough to > change (Anyone try LO4? It's great!) > 2. Parole is just a great media player. It's low memory and efficient, > and frankly it's my preferred media player. > 3. Starting with Greybird for the menu configuration is so much nicer > for people coming from a Windows environment. It just looks nice. I would > prefer starting the menu on the bottom, not the top (I am not a Mac > anything fan) but it's easy enough to fix. > 4. Since you guys are adding backgrounds--THANK YOU. The new Xubuntu > default background is SO much better than 12.04's as well. It's dark, but > generic enough that it isn't off-putting. 12.04's was a little too erm, > "slasher movie" and there's nothing that can be done about a rodent being > the distro logo, though in my neighborhood I wouldn't want one of those as > my mascot. New backgrounds. Bright colors. Do it! > 5. Xfce 4.10 is great as is Thunar. Gimp 4.8 is defaulted. And the new > HPLIP software is there, which covers their newest printers (that's what > finally sold me on going beta and testing in the first place-- some of HP's > new printers (like the OfficeJet 4620) cannot work on 12.04, and to my > knowledge, 12.10 neither. > > In other words, almost anything that could be improved about Xubuntu is > being rolled out in 13.04 -- except the elephant in the room: > > *Wine.* > > Wine works excellently with X 13.04 already. If you are going to up the > distro to a little under 1GB put Wine on it. It's really the last piece of > a puzzle that will give Windows users a real alternative that's efficient. > > The only other thing I would suggest (which would free up some space) is > to switch to the Lubuntu Software Center and GDebi. It's just a better > setup. The USC is just too unwieldy. Yes, it works ok on my machine, till > I'm running 10 programs. After that I find myself switching to Google for a > program name and apt-get. If you guys HAVE to have a big giant software > center, Deepin is much nicer looking, even though it's terrible for > netbooks (doesn't resize well). > > Other than that, I am so glad 13.04 is here, even in beta. It's great, and > while I am sad to see I have no reason to do a respin (I kind of liked > having my "very own OS", I am still working on my new GUI idea, and it's > clear Cairo-dock is going to have some testing issues (it seems to not > recognize horizontal location in XFCE now). I did discover that the update > process (I was using terminal to update since there was an issue with > software-center-- kudos to the fixer!) asks in a prompt about the gnome > defaults, and if you kill that process it will put a package lock a reboot > wont fix-- need to delete the lock and configure dpkg again. But I will go > back to bug checking and just a note with a big thanks, and a couple > suggestions! > > Thank you, > Dcn Joseph Suaiden, Crozier Press > the artiste most likely soon formerly known as "Colorwheel" > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:00 AM, > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Send xubuntu-devel mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of xubuntu-devel digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. RE: Beta 1 testing. (Thomas Molloy) >> 2. Re: Beta 1 testing. (Joshua O'Leary) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:01:33 +0000 >> From: Thomas Molloy <[email protected]> >> To: Xubuntu Development Discussion <[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: Beta 1 testing. >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Aye, i would like to help out as much as i can as well. Though i have no >> experience with packaging yet. I can program comfortably in C++ >> >> Tom >> ________________________________ >> From: Joshua O'Leary<mailto:[email protected]> >> Sent: ?22/?03/?2013 22:01 >> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Beta 1 testing. >> >> What areas does the Xubuntu team particularly need help with at the >> moment? I can do some programming in C, though haven't yet fully got the >> hang of packaging etc. I don't mind doing occasional tests of the live >> images when I have time (have started to do this), I have an old >> computer with a hard drive spare. Are there any other areas in need of >> contribution? Xubuntu is great, really unlocks the potential of any PC, >> and I wouldn't mind helping out where I can. >> >> Joshua >> On 11/03/13 23:52, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: >> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Jackson Doak <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> could everyone start testing the beta 1 images >> > The beta1 images have been spun up for testing, so you'll want to use >> > this link to test: >> > >> > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/261/builds >> > >> > We've also published a blog post with some pointers about testing: >> > >> > http://xubuntu.org/news/want-to-help-out-xubuntu-test-raring/ >> > >> > Thanks everyone! >> > >> >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/attachments/20130323/91b9eeb1/attachment-0001.html >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:08:49 +0000 >> From: Joshua O'Leary <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Beta 1 testing. >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" >> >> I think the build system really ought to be more streamlined - the >> package management itself is great, but the build process involves the >> calling of so many scripts that I'm sure there'd be a performance hit. A >> new build system would make development easier, though would be no easy >> task... >> On 23/03/13 14:01, Thomas Molloy wrote: >> > Aye, i would like to help out as much as i can as well. Though i have >> > no experience with packaging yet. I can program comfortably in C++ >> > >> > Tom >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > From: Joshua O'Leary <mailto:[email protected]> >> > Sent: ?22/?03/?2013 22:01 >> > To: [email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: Beta 1 testing. >> > >> > What areas does the Xubuntu team particularly need help with at the >> > moment? I can do some programming in C, though haven't yet fully got the >> > hang of packaging etc. I don't mind doing occasional tests of the live >> > images when I have time (have started to do this), I have an old >> > computer with a hard drive spare. Are there any other areas in need of >> > contribution? Xubuntu is great, really unlocks the potential of any PC, >> > and I wouldn't mind helping out where I can. >> > >> > Joshua >> > On 11/03/13 23:52, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: >> > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Jackson Doak >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> could everyone start testing the beta 1 images >> > > The beta1 images have been spun up for testing, so you'll want to use >> > > this link to test: >> > > >> > > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/261/builds >> > > >> > > We've also published a blog post with some pointers about testing: >> > > >> > > http://xubuntu.org/news/want-to-help-out-xubuntu-test-raring/ >> > > >> > > Thanks everyone! >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > xubuntu-devel mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> > >> > >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/attachments/20130323/981d6fed/attachment-0001.html >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> -- >> xubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel >> >> >> End of xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 90, Issue 13 >> ********************************************* >> > > > > -- > *Colorwheel OS* > http://colorwheel-os.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/ColorwheelOS > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > >
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