Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME
Albert Wagner
albertwagner at cox.net
Sun Jun 10 16:13:14 UTC 2012
On 06/10/2012 04:42 AM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:25:19 -0500, Albert Wagner wrote:
>
>> On 06/09/2012 02:42 PM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> When someone says that installing GTK is the same as installing Gnome,
>>> or that KDE sits on top of Gnome, should we just ignore it? Does it
>>> help Ubuntu to let people post such falsehoods as if they were facts?
>> Apologies to the moderator and other list members, but although I
>> promised to drop this, I cannot allow such lies to go unanswered. If
>> the moderators want me to leave, then please stop such trash talking
>> from Liam and Robert.
>>
>> Robert,
>> You haven't read my posts. If you had you would not attribute the above
>> lies to me. I never said either thing
> Yes, you did. But failing to twist your way out, you just WISH you didn't.
Then quote accurately the post wherein I did that? Or remain a
self-convicted liar. Why don't you move your cowardly hateful lies to
private email. No audience for your pharisaic strutting?
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> That is because so many here erroneously use the phrase "Gnome 3" to
> refer to the "Gnome 3 Shell". Unity, Gnome 3 Shell, Kubuntu, and
> Xubuntu all sit on top of Gnome 3. Several other distros dirivative of
> Ubuntu also, obviously, use Gnome 3 (not the Shell). Also, Mint has two
> Debian based distros that use Gnome 3, but use XFCE or Cinnamon for the
> desktop. SolusOS currently ships Gnome 2 and has begun development on
> a Gnome2 exact lookalike, but sitting on top of Gnome 3.
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> Aw...OK. I'll do your homework for you just this once:
>
> 1) You must actually install Kubuntu.
> 2) Click on Muon Package Manager
> 3) Type GTK into search.
>
> There it is...a complete Gnome installation within a Kubuntu installation.
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KDE and Kubuntu are not the same thing.
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