Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

[Scott Kitterman]

> 2008/5/18 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>:
>> On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:15:23 +0100 "Fergal Daly" <fergal at esatclear.ie>
>> wrote:
>>>Instead you can put something into /etc/skel so that all newly created
>>>users get consistency and old-timers get left as they were,
>>
>> Us old timers sometimes buy new hardware and do new installs.  This
>> doesn't
>> really hlp much.
>
> As far as I can tell you've just ruled out solving the problem.
>
> Anything which has no effect on new accounts and no effect on old
> accounts has no effect.
>
> Anything which must be sought out and adjusted will not be sought out
> and found by most users.
>
> Anything which prompts you on first login would be a new departure for
> Ubuntu and is likely not to be understand or skipped or chosen
> incorrectly.
>
>
> The number of times I have done a fresh install and _not_ shipped over
> my .rc files is tiny, maybe last time I changed job.
>
> By ruling out a change via /etc/skel you're saying that the people who
> do fresh installs but don't copy their .rc files are more important
> than all future Ubuntu users which seems extreme,

Obviously if something is going to change, someone will have to be
inconvenienced.  All I was saying was don't assume that new installs only
affect people who are new to Ubuntu.

Scott K