Forging a new path.

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Derek Parr <derek at derekparr.com> wrote:
> I started using ubuntu studio because I thought it was a graphics
> centric distro.   It is not, and I came to realize it never was, and
> apparently was never intended to be.  There is some overlap in such
> things as video editing, but beyond the occasional use of audacity,
> audio and the visual mediums are completely different.  Given the
> complications, they probably should never been combined in the first
> place.  I`m sure I`m not the only visual artist who started using this
> distro thinking it was for visual artists as well as audio. I eventually
> realized I was wrong, particularly when I joined this list.  What I am
> saying is that putting all the visual stuff in as an after thought by
> distro developers who are more interested in audio, and stating that the
> distro is for 2d, 3d, video, and audio creatives equally was misleading.
> I would not be surprised that the opinion that most users of ubuntu
> studio are audio people comes from the fact that visual people realize
> that that is what it is made for and move on.  I kinda moved on too.  I
> use ubuntu studio on my main workstation still, but heh, it actually has
> a nice theme on by default, and I've already gotten pretty much
> everything installed that i want.  I've been on this list for a while
> too, but stopped paying attention when I realized nobody was ever going
> to talk about anything other than audio.  It is odd that I actually
> bothered to read this particular thread.
>
> There is definately a need for a 2d, 3d, video, web design, and creative
> multimedia based (easy to use ubuntu-type) distro.  It is surprising
> that there doesn't seem to be anything like that available.
>
> I'm no programmer, but I guess I know enough to make such a thing.  But
> heh, like everyone else, I don't have a lot of free time either.
>
>
> well...   since we were on the subject..  I felt like I should let some
> of these thoughts I have been having out.
>
> To the ubuntu-studio people, thanks for what you have accomplished.
>
> -derek

Derek,

Want to help the Ubuntu Studio team know which visual applications we
could add to the distro to make it more useful for visual artists?
This seams to be a cyclical problem, not much visual
community/development going on because there isnt much visual
community/development going on. :)

But this doesn't mean we dont want to, the contraire

Luis