[xubuntu-users] Goodie Goodie Yum Yum

[David Collins]

Vincent,

I don't want to re-kindle a fire - flame wars don't achieve anything - I
am mainly after clarification.

Looking in Synaptic, I see that the goodies are in the repositories in
the 'Universe' area.  Doesn't this mean that they are part of Ubuntu or
Xubuntu?  And aren't most of the goodies packages installed as part of
the default xubuntu installation?  Therefore, I don't understand how
they are not part of the 'main project'.  I don't doubt what you say,
but can you please explain the difference.


> Might be, but that doesn't mean that it should just make them all part
> of
> the main project.


I also don't understand your sentence below.  Does 'DE' stand for
Desktop Environment?  If so, I wouldn't have thought that anyone would
think that the default install of Xubuntu was a 'full-featured desktop'.
It is a very usable desktop manager for a server, but I need to add a
long list of apps and settings hacks to make it a usable desktop system
for my kids.  I am not just talking about goodies here, but the list of
things that I add does include goodies.  Have I misunderstood your
point?


>  They are specifically not part of the project so a
> full-features DE can be provided without everything needing to conform
> to
> the quality demands of Xfce.


BTW, I think the goodies are brilliant and have said before that I think
that considering that they are installed by default in Xubuntu anyway,
why aren't half a dozen of them added to the top panel in the default
xubuntu install?  It is easy enough to delete them, if you don't want
them.  Heh, this is 'Linux for Humans' after all.

Regards,
David Collins

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