Re: MSOffice usage comfort: Wine or VM+Rdesktop?

2011-09-01 Thread Francis Bolduc
ges you to use Microsoft Word, you should try to convince him that producing Microsoft Word documents with LibreOffice is functionally equivalent, but without the license fee. Business people usually understand "free as in beer better" than the "free as in speech". -- Francis

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Francis Bolduc
> JFTR, that sounds a lot like the KDE target audience.  My experience with > seeing other long term Gnome users switch is that they are initially > overwhelmed by the number of options and the customability, but once they get > over trying to tweak everything, just because they can, and take a lit

Re: GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-05 Thread Francis Bolduc
tspoken firends) on the Desktop Environment direction of Ubuntu. Fergal: I share your opinion. Providing feedback benefits the project. Rodrigo: Yes, I'll look it up. Patrick: Thanks for the link. -- Francis Bolduc, B.Sc. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

GNOME Panel dropped in 11.10

2011-05-04 Thread Francis Bolduc
ences: Mark Shuttleworth said: "we have the Classic desktop fallback in Natty, but will not in Oneiric" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/739812/comments/5 GNOME said: "the GNOME 3 experience will not include the panel as it was in GNOME 2" http://live.gnome.org/GNOME3Myths --