[Design-team] [OT] GIMP becoming too profi and thus will be excluded from Ubuntu distro

[Nicu Buculei]

On 12/02/2009 07:02 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 09:21 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>> I am worried about this tendency, from both Fedora and Ubuntu, of
>> dumbing-down the desktop spins: if Windows does not offer any useful
>> application out-of-the-box,our key to success is NOT to lower to the
>> same level and also offer nothing useful as the OOTB experience.
>>
>
> What if we offer the art studio spin for F13 though? Then there would be
> an OOTB experience specifically tailored for folks interested in
> graphics in particular...

If a Workstation or Design spin emerges an is at least half-decent, al 
the news articles published by my local (Romanian) community will stop 
linking to the Desktop spin and link to that instead. We will also stop 
handling Desktop live media at local event and promote that instead.

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