Developments Idea's for feisty and next distro

[Vincent]

I would really love to hear about some cases from people that decided not to
try Xubuntu because it looked like Gnome...

On 1/12/07, Laurent C <lcontzen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> What brought me to xubuntu is Zenwalk. I've been using ubuntu for a
> while, and when I tried Zenwalk "for fun" I've been amazed by Xfce. As I
> wanted this environnement but didn't wanted to quit ubuntu, I tried
> xubuntu and I've first been disappointed by this Gnome-like look. After
> some time configurating the panels i've come to something quite close to
> what I wanted and I'm now very happy with xubuntu (greetings to all
> contributors for this exellent work).
>
> Anyway, I'm not saying that just to speak about my life, but to come to
> one point :
> Considering the fact that IMHO a lot of users first chooses their distro
> by looking at screeshots couldn't it be better to avoid that xubuntu
> looks exactly as ubuntu with a blue skin? Why don't try to distribute
> xubuntu with Xfce's panel configuration closer to Zenwalk's default
> (ex : http://zenwalk.fr/img/zen42.png )?
> It could maybe help people to discover the real potential of Xfce (and
> xubuntu in the same time) in place of thinking that's juste a gnome like
> and due to that don't try it.
>
>
> This is my first post on this ML, I hope I'm allowed to post here and
> that doesn't annoy anyone (and I aslo hope that my english isn't too
> bad).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurent.
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > So let's talk about real development here.
> >
> > I have done some research on how to improve xubuntu. I have looked at
> > dreamlinux zenwalk and fedora and there xfce desktops. There are quite a
> > lot of things that are good idea's for xubuntu.
> >
> > I would recommended to set vmware images on the website for dreamlinux
> > xubuntu and zenwalk. This is for testing and research.
> >
> > We could implement more panel plugins like in DreamLinux.
> > We could implement search tools like in zenwalk.
> > We could implement a better working combination of the programs like in
> > dreamlinux and zenwalk.
> >
> > What do you guy's think?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jelle
>
>
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Vincent
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