On 2013-10-29 23:11, Federico Leoni wrote: > Well Nio, you put a lot of questions for a project born to be a > super-simple installer that is already working fine. This means, at > least for me, that we are ready to enter into phase two of the > project. Good. > > Using the xorg.conf is not a good idea because is obsolete but can > override a configuration without problems. Nvidia drivers are still > using it. Anyway putting the UXA setting on a xorg.conf on a machine > with Nvidia GPU seems to not harm the system. Would be interesting if > someone from the dev team gave infos about it.
OK, no UXA. > As already told you the OEM point is more complicated. Try to think as > the end user, even if average: you installed with OBI the system and > after a reboot you don't see your distro up and running but you stand > in front of a desktop with a terminal window, and you don't know why > because there isn't instruction for this. You need to click an icon > then reboot again, assuming you will not configure more deeply, to > start the real configuration of the machine. Ok, if you have create > yourself the OBI drive then you probably know what your are doing, but > keep it simple is always a good thing. Put on startup for OEM user > leafpad opening a text file with simples instruction will help for > sure. I think this convinced me to make the system ready for the end user (skipping the oem-stage). Would there still be a need for an open text file with simple instructions? In that case, what instructions? > Again I prefer the tarball as is now, but you know, an user coming > from XP might be scared because he is not prepared to work on a > terminal. This kind of persons are my target, I want to let them > discover the new environment slowly. My opinion, obviously. > Providing two version of OEM setup would be dispersive, but again it's > up to you. > > Even if I prefer standard install, I like the customization you did, > especially, lubuntu-restricted-extras, pulseaudio, pavucontrol. > Normally I add them myself. > Alias are good but the simple user will never use them. > I didn't liked the grub setup, I prefer it hidden when just on single boot. I made grub visible because it makes it easier to add boot options, if necessary for the boot to complete successfully. But it is ugly and it is a tweak, so not pure Lubuntu. > The wallpaper is the unique visual customization you made, I prefer > the stock one, expecially on lightdm. The wallpaper could make the pure Lubuntu and the tweaked version different visually. > Have a pure Lubuntu OEM will be the natural step to follow when OBI > will become more popular. > > Speaking of xfce desktop I'm interested in testing it on such an old > machine. Let me know. xubuntu-precise.tar.xz is already among the uploaded tarballs. Try it in a computer that copes with precise or wait for the Saucy version :-) > F. > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
