Remote Worskpace-Switcher Default Panel Config

Sandis Neilands sandisn at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 08:20:10 CDT 2005


On 8/10/05, Rob J. Caskey <rcaskey at uga.edu> wrote:
> 
> Has there been any consideration of removing the workspace-switcher applet
> from the panel's default layout for Breezy?
> 
> If your the sort of person who lives and dies by the worskpace-switcher, 
> you
> should be able to add it yourself. If your the sort of person who would
> click it and then not be able to find where all your windows went, you 
> might
> have a more difficult time removing it.
> 
> Thoughts?


This whole thread is makes me think of winodws and mac os. I feel, that you 
want ubuntu to become more windows like - more foolproof, with less features 
enabled by default. But why? Almost everybody knows, that windows is 
actually worse than any other os. Look what mac os team did - they didn't 
hide (they actually promoted) their os features. And again almost everybody 
knows, that mac os is better than windows. And then there is ubuntu (and 
lots of other "(windows) user friendly" distros) which is kind of in the 
middle - the features are there, you just have to find them and enable them. 
I don't want to start the war here, but if we disable most things, why 
ubuntu/gnome or Kubuntu is superior to windows, then to end users ubuntu 
willl become something like windows without viruses. If new computer user 
doesn't give a s*** about free software, now I don't see any clear reason 
for him to switch from windows to ubuntu (in the features context). And I'm 
almost sure, that mac os x users (who doesn't care about GPL) won't switch 
to ubuntu not now, not any time soon.

I hope this will change.

-- 
Sandis
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