Hi, Alexandre!
Thank you very much for your swift and charitable response.
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And here is the grovelling. I was trying to test whether a scanner problem was hardware or software. I have very few remotely recent Live CDs already burnt. Your first one was one of them, Alexandre. I tried it immediately after Ubuntu. I have to acknowledge that hordes of people love Ubuntu. But I am not one of them. 11.04 Ubuntu + Unity is sooooo sloooowwwwww. It nearly drove me scatty. On a reasonably fast new box it crawled even after it started. And booting up is a lesson in slowing down for snails.
PCLOS + Trinity _ran_ by comparison. It fairly whizzed along. And I liked the appearance more than last time. I have to say that almost anything would have looked good after Unity, but I don't know why I disliked it so strongly before. :-(
So kudos Alexandre. What you have done is indeed very useful. Thank you.
I still strongly dislike the menu style you have used, but I know that that is partly because of my disability - and I cannot and don't expect the world to redesign itself to suit me. I just panicked at the thought of TDE perhaps going the way of everything else and leaving me without a usable DE. :-(
I look forward to your next Live CD. (And David - I didn't use yours because I only had one from ages ago. I have now downloaded the one from April this year and will burn it.)
I want to install xsane!!
Xsane is, of course, there all the time. I must have been panicking.
I haven't checked yet, but it's what I tough. One advantage of the KickOff menu is that you could have written xsane on the search bar at the top of it and boom: xsane is right there!
Lisi
Hi! During the last few days, I tested TDE R14 nightlies, on Ubuntu 13.04, from the standard install CD, mainly to test it and find bugs. It was the first time I tried Unity and after fiddling around during 4-5 minutes to try to launch a program and search a file, I said to myself: Damn, I don't know how to use a computer anymore! I guess Unity is not for me...
Also, even with TDE R14 nightlies, I saw that the Ubuntu base system is heavier than PCLinuxOS base system. Plus it doesn'T have the very useful Control Center, which is derived from Mandriva and Mageia.
-Alexandre