A great idea to talk about

[Jim Campbell]

These are good comments.  I don't want to discourage people, but the
original poster has a pretty good thread going on his blog, so please leave
your comments there.  This forum should really be for Xubuntu development.


On 8/6/07, h.aling at home.nl <h.aling at home.nl> wrote:
>
> ---- Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> schrijft:
> > On 06/08/07, Diego Ongaro <ongardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 8/6/07, Jesus Gamio <jgamio at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > >
> > > > I just want to share something I read in the planet Ubuntu.
> > > >
> http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/08/idea-unify-ubuntu-name.html
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > I think is a great idea but it's only my opinion What do you think
> about
> > > ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just my 2 cents:
> > > I think this comment has the spirit of the blog post with a reasonable
> > > name: "Ubuntu Lite"
> > >
> > >
> http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/08/idea-unify-ubuntu-name.html#comment-6068861665320843257
> >
> >
> > I don't like it. If you're going for such long names, you could just as
> well
> > say Xubuntu (Ubuntu base + Xfce). And I especially don't like the fact
> that
> > Xubuntu keeps being referred to as "Ubuntu Light-weight Edition" or
> similar
> > whereas Kubuntu is referred to as "Ubuntu with KDE". To me, Xubuntu is
> as
> > much "Ubuntu with Xfce" as Kubuntu is "Ubuntu with KDE".
> >
> > -Diego Ongaro
>
> I sure hope they don't drop Xfce from the name! 'Lite' does not equal
> 'Xfce' just as 'Medium' or 'Heavy' don't describe Gnome or KDE. ('Ubuntu
> without useless clutter' would be a better name ;) )
>
> It would also be very rude to not mention 'Xfce' and advertise for 'KDE'.
>
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>
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