Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Albert Wagner]

On 06/07/2012 05:23 PM, Tom H wrote:
> 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".
> Troll alert...
>
> Plonk!
>
Isn't that sweet?  An ad hominem attack and then flight.