Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Lavender
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:41 PM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: AWN (avant-window-navigator) is the only one I mentioned. Though really, whatever best replaces a panel, actually, whatever is the best balance for us is what we should use. I use AWN and Docky on different systems. AWN works

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-15 Thread C K
So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few weeks I'll be studying the technical aspects of making this happen. Setting themes, working on a default UI, (I'll just use Xubuntu's for now) making new

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-15 Thread ailo
At this stage I would want to contact Puredune, since they have a lot of experience with XFCE. On 04/15/2011 05:52 PM, C K wrote: So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few weeks I'll be

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-15 Thread ailo
Not to say, live images. On 04/15/2011 06:31 PM, ailo wrote: At this stage I would want to contact Puredune, since they have a lot of experience with XFCE. On 04/15/2011 05:52 PM, C K wrote: So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-15 Thread Scott Lavender
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few weeks I'll be studying the technical aspects of making this happen. Setting themes,

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-15 Thread C K
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Scott Lavender scottalaven...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, C K coryis...@gmail.com wrote: So since no competing proposals against using XFCE have been put forth I'll consider it a done deal. We're going with XFCE. Over the next few

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-13 Thread ailo
Couldn't see if anyone had said anything about it, but there is a audio distro that uses XFCE and is a live distro as well. It's called Puredyne and can be found here http://puredyne.org/download.html. There is a live CD and a live DVD to choose from. Since we are considering both XFCE and the

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-12 Thread Eric Hedekar
I for one, have spent the past ten years using the Gnome interface and feel very comfortable in it. So much so that I anticipate UI annoyances to drive me away from Ubuntu if they stick with Ubiquity. Sorry if that's a rant/uncompromising attitude, I just wanted to share with the group my honest

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-12 Thread C K
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Eric Hedekar aftertheb...@gmail.com wrote: XFCE does not seem like it has anything to offer other than old/reliable code. That's a pretty strong reason for choosing it actually. That, and the fact that it uses GTK will make it a less jarring switch than GNOME

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-12 Thread ailo
Don't know how much more RAM different destops would add. How much is Xubuntu compared with Ubuntu Studio? And how much would Ubuntu Studio be if we only changed the WM, nothing else? I for one, don't expect that any WM will be that resource intensive by itself, that it would make a really big

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-12 Thread ttoine
The french website about producing music with Linux distribution, LinuxMao, suggest and explain how to configure Xfce instead of Gnome for Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. In France, most of multimedia producers (pro, hobbyists) use Xfce as main desktop. And a lot of specialized multimedia distributions

RE: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Jones
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:25 AM Subject: Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow. Don't know how much more RAM different destops would add. How much is Xubuntu compared with Ubuntu Studio? And how much would Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-11 Thread ailo
On 04/11/2011 07:26 PM, ailo wrote: To test Gnome3 with Ubuntu ScottL tipped us about this one: http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/ This didn't work for me. I'm moving on to Fedora Alpha release and will give that a testrun with some multimedia programs instead. -- ailo -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing

Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio users workflow.

2011-04-11 Thread Tim Pitman
Here's another vote for XFCE On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM, ailo ailo...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/11/2011 07:26 PM, ailo wrote: To test Gnome3 with Ubuntu ScottL tipped us about this one: http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/ This didn't work for me. I'm moving on to Fedora Alpha release and will give