Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Daryl Haataja
join On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Robert Klaar wrote: > > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Scott Lavender > wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Robert Klaar wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Well, either way you risk loosing supporters but in my opinion it's much >>> worse to risk b

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Klaar
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Scott Lavender wrote: > > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Robert Klaar wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Well, either way you risk loosing supporters but in my opinion it's much >> worse to risk being outdated than getting a bit of disruption for some >> time(and I can't

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread sdavmor
On 05/17/2011 08:17 AM, Janne Jokitalo wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 07:05:22AM -0500, Scott Lavender wrote: [1] http://labor-liber.org/images/linux/xfce.jpg Sorry for not adding any information to the thread, but that is a gorgeous desktop! DAMN! +1 on the XFCE desktop. I have used XFCE (

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Hartmut Noack
Am 17.05.2011 17:17, schrieb Janne Jokitalo: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 07:05:22AM -0500, Scott Lavender wrote: [1] http://labor-liber.org/images/linux/xfce.jpg Sorry for not adding any information to the thread, but that is a gorgeous desktop! DAMN! XFCE can be configured as that and it can be

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Janne Jokitalo
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 07:05:22AM -0500, Scott Lavender wrote: > [1] http://labor-liber.org/images/linux/xfce.jpg Sorry for not adding any information to the thread, but that is a gorgeous desktop! DAMN! -- Jaska signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing l

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Holstein
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:57 AM, Ralf wrote: > > > Ok, I'm already doing this kind of things. I don't like chats, I'm not > subscribed to any chat. The mailing-list should be ok too ;). > > Ralf > hey Ralf... the offical IRC channels are logged at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/ if you would like to b

Re: Xfce

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Holstein
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Karl Giesing wrote: > > My two cents: > > I haven't looked at Xfce in a long while, so I thought it was getting long > in the tooth. I did a little research, and it's apparently not true at all. > In fact, a new (and VERY updated) version just came out in January.

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Lavender
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Robert Klaar wrote: > > > > > Well, either way you risk loosing supporters but in my opinion it's much > worse to risk being outdated than getting a bit of disruption for some > time(and I can't see how this can get so disruptive to a serious > producer/artist tha

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Ralf
On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:36 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > > we, as a community (especially the ubuntustudio community) need to > adopt an attitude 'if its broke, fix it'. there are simple things that > you and i as non-technical users can do such as documentation, wiki > updating, advocac

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Ralf
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 00:53 +0200, Robert Klaar wrote: > And that being said, I think we ARE trying to attract the same people > as apple do, and that might be something we can learn from wether we > like it or not. No, iCommercial first was for elitists and since some years, it's for the all-con

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Ralf
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 00:23 +0200, Robert Klaar wrote: > Many artists/producers DO use mac's and wouldn't this open up for a > larger group of potential users? iTux? I guess you'll get Windows and MacOs themes for many Linux DEs. Hm? Many people don't know that it's also possible to customize even

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Robert Klaar
Sorry if I got a bit confusing, I've been trying both out at my laptop, I would probably guess though that for the next version they will leave Unity for Gnome 3, that's the impression i get from the forums aso. On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Thomas Orgis wrote: > Am Tue, 17 May 2011 00:53:52 +

Re: *Official Announcement:* Ubuntu Studio is switching to XFCE.

2011-05-17 Thread Thomas Orgis
Am Tue, 17 May 2011 00:53:52 +0200 schrieb Robert Klaar : > Well, either way the system seems to go towards a more OSX like feeling, > however I can't help but like the inovative style of Gnome 3, atm. I'm > running 10.10 with cairodock Sorry if I'm confused ... are you using Gnome 3 or are you