> From: "Scott Moore" <[email protected]> > > Agreed. Except for the greeter color scheme, 13.04 is looking great. > It looks like they have finally gotten Thunar to work correctly with > browsing > network shares. Previously, it was hit-and-miss, even with > gvfs-backends installed. It works so well in fact that I have finally > dumped Nautilus. And > besides, I didn't care for the new look of Nautilus anyway. I'm also > using the xfce 4.12 beta and it also, finally, supports dual-monitor setups > quite > nicely whereas before I had to rely on my own hacked-together arandr > script that didn't quite work as well as I had wanted it. All in all, I'm > liking > Xubuntu even better with every new release. >
100% agreement with this post. I had forgotten about the dual-monitor setup-- my wife had that issue and it held her back when using 12.04. 13.04 is a massive improvement there. > From: Jackson Doak <[email protected]> > > the only thing to do now is fix the login mansger, and lock screen > It does seem that the colors have inverted in the box. I thought that was stylistic, and rather nice looking :) > From: Abderraouf Adjal <[email protected]> > Hello > There are two idea to improve Xubuntu > One: > at the file managet (thunar) add make all files executable . And not only a > particular file type. > For a novice user, would I be wrong in assuming that's kind of dangerous, considering a .deb file does just what most people migrating from Windows expect an .exe file to do, oblivious to the difference between extracting a directory to effect installation and running a script to do so. While I realize that would take an advanced type of novice to do (download a bad archive thinking they can compile the source, realizing they can't, going to the wrong folder and authorizing executable) I can't really see an advantage over keeping that particular feature terminal-based. Or maybe I am being paranoid. From: Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> > What programs work with it can change quite radically with the Wine > versions, as can readily be seen from the Wine AppDB. It would just > give people false expectations about what thing work. > > Wine is great software, but it can easily be installed afterwards, > similarly to many other (large) programs. > This is true. Obviously we'll never have full compatibility as Windows keeps changing as well. On the other hand, it looks fantastic in the menu. :) From: Abderraouf Adjal <[email protected]> > *Wine is not secure, where possible user is running a program that > contains a > virus.* > *however, they will stay in the wine directory (~/.wine).* > Abderraouf A. > Leading to one of the best Linux quotes I have read, and my gracefully withdrawing the Wine request: "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux not immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground." Thanks! I'll be back if anything weird and critical happens.
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