Desktop change consequences

[Pete Wright]

Good point, Mike, Thanks!


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Pete Wright <pnwright at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If this question is too “newbie” or worse, heretical, please forgive and
>> then ignore me.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?)
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>> 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?
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>> Thanks.
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>> Pete
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> 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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