Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 22:23:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> 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".

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