apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 18:38, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:41, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > > Gnucash would be useful to almost any body who owns their own
> > > business
> >
> > I happen to agree with you here, household budgets would benefit too.
> > But we'd have to ask the devs why it was excluded.
>
> In the case of GnuCash, I would assume a big reason is that the first
> version supporting Gtk2 was only released two months ago - before that
> it only used old Gtk+.
>
Even if it wasn't pretty, t was still very powerful. I think it should have 
been included. Just my personal opinion though.
> > > The various printer drivers should not be installed by default. A
> > > user is very unlikely to use more than 2, and yet he has all of
> > > them. It is unnecessary.
> >
> > User upgrades printer. Now what?
> > A company leases Nashua printers. At the end of the contract they get
> > a better deal from another supplier using Canons. No user can print.
> > Now what?
> > Will you volunteer to be the one to hand-upgrade ever desktop in the
> > company to install new printer drivers?
>
> I can't recall where I heard it from, but I've been told that the
> printer drivers need to be installed to be able to determine which
> driver is needed. If a user doesn't happen to have their printer turned
> on when they install Ubuntu, how are they supposed to get the driver
> installed?
>
> Having things Just Work, rather than having to spend hours searching for
> the right driver to use, is something I very much like.
>
Have a package of HP drivers to download. It doesn't make it any more 
difficult, and it frees up room on the install disk. Again, JUST MY PERSONAL 
OPINION.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston

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