Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studiousers workflow.

[Ricardo Lameiro]

Te problem isnt on the WM per se, but on the amount of lib it needs to
load to work, plus the "weight" of its associated applications.
For instance, thunar (XFCE file manager) Is way more lighter than
Nautilus (gnome). Using Gtk doesnt mean that XFCE is as heavy as
Gnome.
You should try xfce and compare.


2011/4/12  <louiethecuban at gmail.com>:
> I'm down for xfce if that's what the majority wants. As long as, like toine said, our desktop is simple and inviting.
>
> -louie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ttoine <ttoine at ttoine.net>
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> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:03:20
> To: Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion<ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Studio 11.10 UI discussion. GNOME3, Unity, XFCE and Studio
>        users workflow.
>
> The french website about producing music with Linux distribution,
> LinuxMao, suggest and explain how to configure Xfce instead of Gnome
> for Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. In France, most of multimedia producers
> (pro, hobbyists) use Xfce as main desktop. And a lot of specialized
> multimedia distributions for live performance and installations use
> Xfce, like Puredyne. It's light and work great in production, even for
> long sessions and/or with important loads.
>
> As I always said about UI design for Ubuntu Studio (I used to be one
> of the first contributors), the main focus should be on a simple,
> light and efficient desktop, in order to not spend to much time on
> that point.Then, the most important should be to focus on applications
> choice and packaging, and the possibility to use it to produce without
> tweaking (simple and fast instal). But I know that for a lot of people
> it is quite important to propose a beautiful desktop. Xfce allow both,
> without yoo much effects, imho.
>
> So, it seems like averybody on the mailing is ok for the switch to
> Xfce, let's stop chatting and let's start to work on that point, to
> get ready as soon as possible.
>
> For the dock, why not simply use the simple and very good "Docky"?? It
> has all we need and is one of the most easy for a day to day use.
> Chatting with Docky team would be great to know if they could add some
> docklets like "Menu", a better network manager, etc...
>
> I would finish this answer with a question : for the beta, Ubuntu
> proposed a live dvd for testing and install. Why don't we provide that
> ?? If necessary, I can post the question on an other email.
>
> Toine
>
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