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[Robert McWilliam]

On 18/12/07 06:41:55, Giuseppe Torelli wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 1:29 PM, Jani Monoses <jani at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > It is unrelated to this patch, but I'd rather we drop battery plugin and
> > use gnome-power-manager as it gives a lot more information and is better
> > integrated with the rest of the power management.
> 
> Another gnome app in a XFCE related distro? So the hour will come when
> there will be no need to use XFCE because of the aboundance of
> gnome-related program and Xubuntu will be a bloated copy of Ubuntu.

I know this was beaten to death (and quite a bit beyond) previously, but I 
never did figure something out: what is your aversion to all things gnome? 
There are some gnome apps that are quite tightly coupled to the gnome 
environment and so pull in lots of libraries when used outside of gnome but 
there are others that are really just GTK apps that happen to have gnome in 
their name because they were aimed primarily at gnome users (and a continuum 
between the two extremes).

Ubuntu does a lot of things very well. Xubuntu exists to modify Ubuntu a bit 
to make it fit a different niche. What to change and what to use from base 
Ubuntu is a Hard Problem and I'm sure you could give useful input but simply 
repeating "Gnome is evil" and predicting the downfall of Xubuntu if any apps 
are included with gnome in the name is not very productive. 

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