Comments on: Planned Changes to Next Ubuntu Version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

By: Mojac

Mojac — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:58:26 +0000

A better approach to the default install would be to have an installer that allows the choice of “default” software to be selected by the person that will be using the given ubuntu version. The installer is fine now, but offers no software selection(s) beyond what must be installed.

As for PiTiVi, it sucks imo, very limited. Kdenlive is a better choice for a default, and I use that now.

By: ahmd

ahmd — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:35:39 +0000

i prefer usb modem to be auto detected. no need to install usb modeswitch wvdial and etc. it is annoying.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:31:01 +0000

Well, Remastersys claims to do just that.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/create-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-with-remastersys-in-karmic.html

Has anyone tried this? I’d love to package up a live-cd with all my customizations for myself, friends and family.

Although, my customizations only take an hour or two to apply to a vanilla install, and they change with each distro so I don’t know if it would be worth putting this together or not.

By: Duncan Macdonald

Duncan Macdonald — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:08:47 +0000

For every 1000 people who want to edit a photo there is perhaps one who wants to edit a video. The photo editor GIMP should be retained and the video editor should be installed from the internet if needed.

One thing that is needed is a tool or script to produce a live DVD from a currently running system (i.e. with all updates and customisations applied - DVD because the result probably will not fit onto a CD).

By: Jean Chicoine

Jean Chicoine — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:24:43 +0000

@dogbert0360: “the cairo dock bar as the new system dock”
No, not me. I think it’s too personal a choice. I tried cairo dock, didn’t dislike it, didn’t really like it either. To say, I got but one bar, at the bottom of the screen, set to transparency and with everything I need via launchers and whatnot.

By: dogbert0360

dogbert0360 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:46:43 +0000

I’ld like to see Canonical adopt the cairo dock bar as the new system dock. Keep the upper bar as an all purpose dock. I’m using it now and it simply rocks!

By: cetinm

cetinm — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:55:30 +0000

It is wrong decision to replace the Gimp with PiTiVi since they are apple and pear.

By: Pritush

Pritush — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:37:43 +0000

i think GIMP should not be replaced, Ubuntu’s music store seems to be exciting. But does it will have DRM limitations ?

By: anon e moose

anon e moose — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:02:05 +0000

The removal of GIMP to be replaced by fspot is a very very bad decision. It essentially leaves ubuntu at a state where you have no software which is capable of editting pictures. Every windows since win 1/win 95 has had mspaint.

Yes apt-get is my friend. However in a situation where internet isnt possible. Fspot isnt capable of editting pictures.

By: Finite State

Finite State — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:26:06 +0000

I agree (and from what I have heard, Gimp developers too) with Ubuntu’s decision to remove Gimp from default install, although it would be bad if it becomes an unsupported (i.e. only available through universe repository), but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

On the other hand, I really wish F-Spot will be replaced (in the future) with something like Solang or Shotwell. There is no chance of that happening in Gnome because Novell, one of the major contributors to Gnome has a vested interest in making every Gnome app (if possible) depend on Mono (I don’t blame them, that’s their business plan).

My main reason for this is my very, very bad experience with F-Spot. It has done nothing but crash, or in the best case, not work at all . And I kept trying it again and again thinking it will improve with the next release. It just gets worse.

I have a similar wish for Tomboy to be replaced with GNote (a port of Tomboy) in the future. Again, this will never happen in Gnome for the reason I mentioned earlier, but hopefully it will in Gnome. Unlike F-Spot, Tomboy worked (at least initially) but I had to give it up (and missed it sorely) as it followed F-Spot’s path. I am so glad GNote is available now.

Let’s hope for the best.

By: _khAttAm_

_khAttAm_ — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:49:34 +0000

@Peter Funk
It is not that it will not be in the repos at all. It will not be included in the CD-ROM you get and thats it.

GIMP can always be installed from Ubuntu Software Centre or Synaptic Package Manager or any other package manager.

By: Peter Funk

Peter Funk — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:30:56 +0000

I think GIMP is a very needed standard application and it should be kept under all circumstances!
Removing it would hurt. Please remove other
less popular stuff like Mono or f-spot instead.

By: joomla

joomla — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:50:53 +0000

bad news i like gimp

By: JaeklChristian

JaeklChristian — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:39:21 +0000

I have tried PiTiVi, and I can say, it is not good - I really don’t like it! Have you heard about openshot? This is great, you have to try it, really. It works, and looks great. =)

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:24:52 +0000

I don’t get it. Adding a video editor, but getting rid of the graphics editor?

Where is the replacement?

Of course I can just install it, but I could “just install” a lot of things… its really nice when I don’t have to.

It really doesn’t take that much space.

By: karlzt

karlzt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:56:50 +0000

pitivi
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pitivi”, line 117, in
_init_gobject_gtk_gst()
File “/usr/bin/pitivi”, line 104, in _init_gobject_gtk_gst
pygst.require(‘0.10′)
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘require’

on karmic

By: KenP

KenP — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:16:41 +0000

I would like to see Kubuntu given equal love as the default Ubuntu. This should be #1 priority. Right now, Canonical is leaning too heavily towards Ubuntu.

By: Daniel Holm

Daniel Holm — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:06 +0000

I do not like that GIMP will be removed. Also I’d like to see Rhythmbox being replaced by Banshee.

Besides that they are on the right track. F-Spot is slow and changes the dir-hierarchy.

By: nogimpgone

nogimpgone — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:23:44 +0000

So they are removing the Gimp because of space constraints, why don’t they remove Mono?
It takes in about 30MB!! That’s more than the gimp takes in!!
space saving, BS!!!
Loosing the Gimp is stupid, it will lead to more people to try to use Photoshop in Wine!!
A rescue scenario could be, have gimp without documentation!!

By: Artem Ervits

Artem Ervits — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:36:01 +0000

Did they say why they’re removing Gimp? Size on disk issue?