Was just an idea! :)

[Colorwheel OS]

> From: "Scott Moore" <scottbomb at hotmail.com>
>
> Agreed.  Except for the greeter color scheme, 13.04 is looking great.
> It looks like they have finally gotten Thunar to work correctly with
> browsing
> network shares. Previously, it was hit-and-miss, even with
> gvfs-backends installed. It works so well in fact that I have finally
> dumped Nautilus. And
> besides, I didn't care for the new look of Nautilus anyway. I'm also
> using the xfce 4.12 beta and it also, finally, supports dual-monitor setups
> quite
> nicely whereas before I had to rely on my own hacked-together arandr
> script that didn't quite work as well as I had wanted it. All in all, I'm
> liking
> Xubuntu even better with every new release.
>

100% agreement with this post. I had forgotten about the dual-monitor
setup-- my wife had that issue and it held her back when using 12.04. 13.04
is a massive improvement there.


> From: Jackson Doak <doak.jackson at gmail.com>
>
> the only thing to do now is fix the login mansger, and lock screen
>

It does seem that the colors have inverted in the box. I thought that was
stylistic, and rather nice looking :)


> From: Abderraouf Adjal <abderraouf.adjal at gmail.com>
> Hello
> There are two idea to improve Xubuntu
> One:
> at the file managet (thunar) add make all files executable . And not only a
> particular file type.
>

For a novice user, would I be wrong in assuming that's kind of dangerous,
considering a .deb file does just what most people migrating from Windows
expect an .exe file to do, oblivious to the difference between extracting a
directory to effect installation and running a script to do so. While I
realize that would take an advanced type of novice to do (download a bad
archive thinking they can compile the source, realizing they can't, going
to the wrong folder and authorizing executable) I can't really see an
advantage over keeping that particular feature terminal-based.

Or maybe I am being paranoid.

From: Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet.fi>



> What programs work with it can change quite radically with the Wine
> versions, as can readily be seen from the Wine AppDB.  It would just
> give people false expectations about what thing work.
>
> Wine is great software, but it can easily be installed afterwards,
> similarly to many other (large) programs.
>

This is true. Obviously we'll never have full compatibility as Windows
keeps changing as well.  On the other hand, it looks fantastic in the menu.
:)

From: Abderraouf Adjal <abderraouf.adjal at gmail.com>
> *Wine is not secure, where possible user is running a program that
> contains a
> virus.*
> *however, they will stay in the wine directory (~/.wine).*
> Abderraouf A.
>

Leading to one of the best Linux quotes I have read, and my gracefully
withdrawing the Wine request: "Wine has advanced enough to make Linux not
immune to Windows viruses. However, just like many Wine applications, it
takes a bit of effort to get the program off the ground."

Thanks! I'll be back if anything weird and critical happens.
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