apps choice for Ubuntu and installation choices [Was: cross-platform virus]

[James "Doc" Livingston]

On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:41, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > Gnucash would be useful to almost any body who owns their own 
> > business 
> 
> I happen to agree with you here, household budgets would benefit too. 
> But we'd have to ask the devs why it was excluded.

In the case of GnuCash, I would assume a big reason is that the first
version supporting Gtk2 was only released two months ago - before that
it only used old Gtk+.


> > The various printer drivers should not be installed by default. A
> > user is very unlikely to use more than 2, and yet he has all of
> > them. It is unnecessary.
> 
> User upgrades printer. Now what?
> A company leases Nashua printers. At the end of the contract they get 
> a better deal from another supplier using Canons. No user can print. 
> Now what?
> Will you volunteer to be the one to hand-upgrade ever desktop in the 
> company to install new printer drivers?

I can't recall where I heard it from, but I've been told that the
printer drivers need to be installed to be able to determine which
driver is needed. If a user doesn't happen to have their printer turned
on when they install Ubuntu, how are they supposed to get the driver
installed?

Having things Just Work, rather than having to spend hours searching for
the right driver to use, is something I very much like.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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