Desktop change consequences

[Mike Holstein]

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> If this question is too “newbie” or worse, heretical, please forgive and
> then ignore me.
>
> I changed from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu Studio 12.10 primarily because GIMP
> was slightly flakey (main problem was it wouldn't accept ctr key
> combination like ctr+ left click to select area for clone brush) and I
> hoped Studio would not have something hijacking the ctrl function. I also
> do lots of content creation (primarily writing and art photography) so
> Studio seemed a good choice.
>
> Now I find myself missing the much-maligned Unity desktop. So, can I
> change to Unity desktop in Studio without horrible consequences? (And if
> so, how do I do it?)
>
> Or is nobody checking to see if Unity works with all the rest of Studio,
> and so I should just shut up and sit down?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pete
>

the issuse, Pete, is that ubuntustudio 12.10 *is* ubuntu... you can always
use whatever desktop environment you want (unity, etc..) and there is no
need to get into what is "better".. the problem is, you moved on to a
version that will have the same GIMP version... you should try and
troubleshoot your GIMP issue, since GIMP is the same in ubuntu,
ubuntustudio, xubuntu... whatever.. the only way to get a different version
of GIMP is to install a different version of GIMP either from source or
PPA.. or, you can use a different release of ubuntu (12.04 for example
would have an older version of GIMP).. if you installed 12.10 ubuntustudio,
and the issue with GIMP is "fixed", you still cannot assume that has
anything to do with the issue.. more likely just a config file somewhere in
your old ubuntu install... cheers!

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