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If Looks Could Kill
I am a fan of MS office just because of its looks, except I do all my work on LibreOffice. MS office gives me some frustrating experience every time I try to do something incredible with it. Looks can be deceptive but Looks kill. MS office is one of the reason why most of my friends are not switching to Ubuntu. LibreOffice needs a grand makeover of its UI to create a first impression… love at first sight as you may call it! But LibreOffice developers do not have much resources for such a grand makeover in near future. As LibreOffice is now the default office suite for Ubuntu, I think Canonical should foster the LibreOffice project. LibreOffice is a much better office suite than even MS office. Leave alone the UI, a few little tweaks like HUD integration at deeper level and cloud support with Ubuntu One may take it way ahead of MS office.
Uttamv
Des regards qui tuent
Je suis fan de MS Office tout simplement à cause de son apparence, sauf que je travaille uniquement sur LibreOffice. Chaque fois que j'essaie de faire quelque chose d'incroyable dessus, MS Office me frustre énormément. Les apparences peuvent être trompeuses, mais les regards tuent.
FVWM FTW!
I read about Alan Ward's article (Linux Lab - Making *buntu 12.04 Boot Faster) in FCM#63. At the end of his article he showed his desktop, which is FVWM (F Virtual Window Manager) in nature. Is it possible to give a step-by-step instruction to install FVWM from an Ubuntu 12.04 command-line-system?
JP
Alan Replied:
Both FVWM (the simple version) and FVWM-crystal (a bit more beautiful) are in the Ubuntu repositories, more precisely in the universe section. So all you need to do, at the command line, is:
sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get install fvwm-crystal (or “apt-get install fvwm” if you only want FVWM )
and you should be good to go. Alternatively, any graphical software installer such as Synaptic should also find them for you.
You then log out of your session, and should find the fvwm entries have been created in the display manager list of desktop sessions. For example, in lightdm:
As for configuration, there is not too much information to be found on the Web. The Gentoo guide on FVWM is about the most comprehensive I have seen so far: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/FVWM/Configuration
Alan Ward
Simple Solutions
I started using Ubuntu back in 2006 with Edgy Eft. It always has been and always will be a great Operating System. I support Ubuntu and what it stands for. It is great to see Canonical working hard to satisfy the demands of users who use touch-screen devices such as tablets, smart-phones and All-in-one PCs.
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 a few weeks back on my 15.3” laptop, but I, like many other desktop users, found Unity counter-productive and limited in configure-ability. I have since installed Xubuntu due to the classic and simple style of the user interface that so many Linux users are used to. I would love to still use Ubuntu because of its good reliability and support. I know there is gnome-fallback, but I think we need a better long-term answer for the many desktop users out there.
I want to share my own solution to this dividing issue. My answer: When the user installs Ubuntu for the first time, the user is asked what type of device they use. Options could include: Tablet and All-in-one PC = Unity Interface, and Desktop = Gnome Interface. I believe work should be done in both interfaces to keep Ubuntu users happy and content. Also, once Ubuntu is installed, there should be more options to allow greater configure-ability, and, of course, an option to bring back the classic menu we have all grown used to. It also makes me wonder how many businesses are going to cope, since from what I have read, most of the computers in the world are office PCs. Maybe I'm a dreamer; I believe not. If Canonical wants its desktop and power users back, they need to have options for all users, not just a 'one-fits-all' approach. Simple. The next few years are going to be very interesting in regard to the future development of the user interface on computer devices.
Chris Love
No Kthanks
I recently tried Kubuntu 12.04, and read some reviews on it, and found out they were right: Kubuntu is rather bare-bones, and takes a lot of tweaking to get just right. After getting frustrated with the bloated-feeling Kubuntu, I tried PCLinuxOS KDE and found it to run faster and smoother on the same hardware – mostly due to how it was set up. To top it off, the mouse wheel actually worked in PCLinuxOS when it didn't in Kubuntu. I am more at home with Gnome than KDE, so anything to make using the really nice DE easy to get into is always a plus. Maybe I'll try Kubuntu again once it has some bug fixes done, but, for now, I'll stick with Gnome on my Ubuntu setup, and play with KDE when the mood strikes me with PCLinuxOS.
Don