Recommended applications

Phill Whiteside PhillW at Ubuntu.com
Fri Mar 9 21:33:55 UTC 2012


On 9 March 2012 21:33, Phill Whiteside <phillw at vpolink.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> as I recall, the intro slides do mention the alternate system that we
> support?
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 9 March 2012 21:04, Daniel Brady <darthbradysmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think keeping mtpaint is good enough. If users want more, it is simple
>> enough to add it with synaptic or the LSC. The first two things I usually
>> grab are gimp and LibreOffice. At the most of anything gets changed, maybe
>> just add the "install (software title)" shortcut in the menu, like most
>> Distros do with Firefox or chromium. That way we dont have to use the space
>> to have the program installed, but still offer a way to new users to easily
>> and quickly get the software. For many newcomers just looking at the live
>> cd, seeing the link and knowing its readily available in this manner is a
>> good tool to push them to install the Distro ;)
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Daniel Brady (iPhone)
>> darthbradysmail at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> > Am Freitag, 9. März 2012, 18:22:18 schrieb UH:
>> >> 2012/3/9 Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>
>> >>
>> >>> On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:54:33 +0100
>> >>
>> >> [. . . ]
>> >>
>> >>> The idea of 'Recommended Applications' list is NOT to provide
>> alternatives
>> >>> to the default apps , but to highlight apps for other functions, eg.
>> >>> Library/Book/CD Collection apps, CAD/CAM, Arcade games, to name a few,
>> >>> that
>> >>> are not covered by the default apps.
>> >>
>> >> Ok, sorry, that i got it wrong. Powerprefs is covered by default apps?
>> And
>> >> powernowd? Moreover, at least in the beta1 i refer to in this moment, i
>> >> don't see any app to manage photos. (And what's about gimp?)
>> >
>> > We don't have a photomanagement application just a image viewer.
>> > For image editing we ship mtpaint which might be not the best but its
>> very
>> > lightweigth both for ram and hd space.
>> >
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