Mini survey

[Jani Monoses]

On 2/10/06, j Mak <joz_mak at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>  Recently, I've converted my friend's 13 year old daughter to Linux
> because her windows got infected every one or two months with viruses and
> spy-ware. Now, she uses Ubuntu and happy because she can visit all the virus
> infected download sites without being afraid of getting viruses. But to make
> her satisfied I had to install a few additional programs like  Limewire,
> mplayer with the codecs and dvd libraries and F-Spot; now she can do the
> same things with Linux she got used to doing on the windows. This gave me a
> chance to learn about her and her friend's surfing and user habits, and
> helped me to figure what were the most important of programs teenagers
> couldn't live without.
>  - a messenger program like Gaim for chatting
> - a file exchange program like Limewire
> - a good music player
> - a video program, like mplayer
> - an image viewer that can retrieve images from cameras, like F-Spot
>  If xubuntu is intended for the average users rather than specialists, I
> think the default applications should reflect this. From this point of view
> the Gimp, Inkscape, Dia are not even
>

Right, it is definitley intended for average users so the programs you
mention would be nice if we had low resource and nice alternatives (I bet
f-spot is not low resource)
but we do not compete with ubuntu/kubuntu as they're in a far better
position to provide the average users with  ms-windows like niceness.
For instance the good music/video player points are not as much technical as
license/patenting related, this is why unfortunatley even ubuntu can't play
things the average user would want out of the box.So whether we put
gxine/xfmedia/mplayer as default is not as important as the plugins we
include. With no mp3 and many common video formats unavailable
the app does not matter that much.
But I am sure we can have both inskcape/dia and home user apps along on the
CD they do not exclude each other, the only blocking criteria are
availability and those written in the wiki.

Jani
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