Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
<jonathan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Well, I guess the 26MB of stuff is indeed an issue, but where it
> bothered us was that it adds a Qt3 Assistant menu item under
> Programming, and currently that's the only item under Programming on the
> Edubuntu menu, which could be kind of confusing for users.
>
> We could use some hacky ways to remove it, but the ideal thing for us to
> do is just not to install it. We're quite confident that users who'll be
> interesting in developing with Qt will know how to install the
> documentation for it themselves :)

Thanks for clarifying. One issue is that the online help for qcad
won't show unless qt3-assistant is installed. However, I agree that
qt3-assistant is confusing when added to the menu - this is a tough
one to fix besides using magic unless we remove the .desktop file from
the qt3-assistant package. That might have to be an ubuntu/edubuntu
thing to do as I don't know if the debian maintainers would go for
that. Either way I'll bump it down to "Recommends," but that won't
solve this problem.

I think the edubuntu project is great and am happy to help if you guys
need anything.

Regards,
Scott