Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Albert Wagner]

On 06/07/2012 12:56 PM, Rashkae wrote:
> On 06/07/2012 12:59 PM, Albert Wagner wrote:
>> Yet, Ubuntu is based on Gnome.  So what do you think differentiated 
>> Kubuntu from a non-Ubuntu KDE distribution.  Was there nothing at all 
>> left of Ubuntu in Kubuntu?
> Ubuntu is not based on Gnome.  Ubuntu uses gnome as the default 
> desktop environment for a desktop install CD
> If you install a minimal command-line install of Ubuntu, there will be 
> no trace of Gnome whatsoever, but it is still Ubuntu. 
Interesting.  Exactly what is installed that fits the common meaning of 
the word Ubuntu?
> Similarly, the GTK toolkit itself predates Gnome, and an application 
> being GTK does not make it part of Gnome (though they may have several 
> shared dependancies.) 
Actually, Gnome is the maintainer of GTK.  Can you describe this "pure" 
Gnome that can exist apart from GTK?
> A Kubuntu install, however, won't even have any of those.
Have you ever installed Kubuntu and using Synaptic, a Gnome/GTK app, 
examined the actual files installed?
>
> You are perhaps confusing gnome with GNU.
>
Nope.

Yet another set of personal definitions obfuscating an actual 
discussion. I find it tedious to have to back up so far as defining 
terms like "based on" and "sits on top of".