Xubuntu's goals

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On Feb 5, 2008 3:59 PM, Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:

> The "user" in user friendly refers to both newbies and us so called
> power users. I don't subscribe to the idea that being user friendly
> somehow automatically has to make the app less powerful. The UI needs to
> be clean and logical to be efficient and provide the necessary amount of
> (but not too many) options and configurability with sane defaults, and
> everybody wins.
>
> Xfce doesn't make being lightweight its only priority and I don't think
> we should either. The only assumption we should make is that people
> don't want to spend time fiddling with their system or learn unnecessary
> stuff when they could be doing something productive instead.
>
> - Jari
>

I'm not trying to imply that the applications aren't (or can't be) easy to
use. I'm just saying that they don't go to the same lengths to do any
hand-holding like some GNOME and KDE apps do.
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