Switching from Windows

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:23 -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:

> This brings up an issue that occurred to me as I was writing the
> packaging guide. I want to write in a neutral way as much as possible.
> The question that came to mind is how should refer to "Ubuntu the
> umbrella" as opposed to "Ubuntu the Gnome-based version". I tend to
> use Ubuntu in the umbrella meaning, mostly since I'm a MOTU and it is
> all the same repo to me. If I want to refer to something specific to
> Gnome I tend to use "Gnome" but I'm not sure if that is confusing to
> new users (I imagine it would be). What do you guys think about making
> a distinction in our terminology (maybe it is already there and I
> missed it)

I think that for the immediate future Ubuntu _is_ using the gnome
desktop not kde. So only if something is kde specific should that be
mentioned.

I hope I'm not going to start seeing references to how to do things in
kde in the ubuntu docs. When/if Canonical gives _official_ support for
Kubuntu then that's a whole different story.

Duncan