Posted by rosk0 on December 14, 2010 at 10:16am
It's a grate job of the authors but I think as quickstart is DE it should be less beautifull and more productive. I think that GNOME is too 'pretty' for this appliance and xfce or fluxbox will do the job much better.
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Great idea for working on low-performance machines
This is a very good idea for people using machines that are not-so performant; I would like, though, to still get the cli script to get Gnome set-up instructions included with the VM (so I can run the task later easily), since I enjoy a lot working on a nice desktop.
Yes!
Hi Rosko,
Yes, I'd like to continue shipping Quickstart with Gnome as the default, and if you had a bash script to add xfce or fluxbox, I'd gladly include it. There are already scripts for installing Oracle and other stuff, so easy to include this. I think you're right you're not the only person who'd be interested in this.
Next release is for Ubuntu 10.10, so once you get a bash script together, upload it into the project issue queue.
Thanks,
Mike
I think it's as simple as
I think installing XFCE is as simple as $ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
Great!
Hi Rosko,
Try it out and when you get it tested, add an issue.
Thanks,
Mike
-1 please don't kill GNOME (but add other options?)
Thank you so much, Mike, for building this beautiful DE for us! I am very VERY grateful for the work you've done.
In response to this post, I'm happy GNOME is there, personally. "pretty" is not the same as "a tool with a good UI", and good UIs make work take less time and coders make fewer mistakes. So please don't kill GNOME.
Maybe a portion of the install script can be commented such that it's easy to enable/disable choices for installation, pre-build?
Also on this note, at DCNYC9 earlier today, a presenter mentioned that he was bummed that Tom's Notes is no longer included in QS, so maybe this could be another one of those "optional builds"?
Thank you,
--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443
Hey Kelly, I'm glad your
Hey Kelly, I'm glad your finding Quickstart useful!
I searched around for a Gnome replacement and didn't find one. The new Ubuntu Unity interface is exciting for computer newbies, but not so exciting for developers. I think Gnome is here to stay.
I took out Tomboy notes from the build because it added about 100mb to the download size. Tiny app, but it adds in the Mono .NET compatibility library which gets huge. I think I'd add Inkscape before I added Tomboy back in.
Luckily, Tomboy and Inkscape are availabe from the Software Center (Applications -> Software Center), or from the command line:
sudo apt-get install tomboy
sudo apt-get install inkscape
If you want to re-add all the stuff I removed to build the image, this should do it:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
I'm trying to keep the download under 1 gig, (which isn't happening) so alot of cool stuff get's taken out :-)
Good luck!
Mike