Switching from Windows

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:25 +0200, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> 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,

You've slightly misunderstood the situation: this team writes the
documentation for Ubuntu and Kubuntu: the packaging guide and other
desktop-non-specific guides are published in both. So, it's important
that a desktop non-specific approach is taken in those documents.

For the record, KDE is supported by Canonical and Ubuntu: it is in the
main repository and receives security updates.

Matt
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mdke at ubuntu.com
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