Breezy Badger - Ubuntu Kubuntu mix

[Michael M.]

Bjørn Ingmar Berg wrote:
> 
> Nonetheless I'd like to look at and compare Ubuntu and Kubuntu in
> their "out-of-the-box" states, and the best way to do that for me would
> be to have them "side by side" in the same computer.  People have
> put lots of work and energy into making the selections of software in
> these two flavours of the distro.  They must have had their reasons.
> And I'd like to see them set up and running as the people behind this
> planned.  Without various additional apps.  This will for example help me
> give a qualified answer if someone asks me if I recommend Ubuntu or
> Kubuntu for them.

The best way to do that is to use the respective live CDs, or do two 
separate hard disk installs.  I understand why you want to see what you 
want to see, but you have to realize that a usable desktop is not meant 
to be left in its default state.  The default is only what you start 
with.  Can you imagine how pissed people would be if Gnome refused to 
show KDE apps or third-party apps, and KDE refused to show Gnome or 
third-party apps?  Nobody would use either of them.  Imagine the outcry 
if Windows XP didn't add iTunes to the menu because the latter is not 
the default media player for Windows.  Defaults are supposed to be 
changed, and any usuable desktop will try to accommodate itself to what 
it thinks you want as smoothly as possible.  You installed some KDE 
apps, so of course Gnome will add them to the menus.

The other thing to remember is that if you do a fresh install of Ubuntu, 
what you're seeing is *Ubuntu's* version of Gnome.  The same with KDE 
and Kubuntu.  Ubuntu, for example, doesn't include Ephiphany (part of 
Gnome) by default but does include Firefox (not part of Gnome) by 
default.  So you will see different implementations of Gnome depending 
upon which distros you install.

If you really want to check out Gnome, install Foresight Linux: 
http://www.foresightlinux.com/  That's a distro pretty much devoted to 
all things Gnome.  I don't know if there's a similar for KDE, but you 
could always ask around on KDE message boards for what people think is 
the best KDE-oriented distro.  It might well be Kubuntu.


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