I would like to test to really use it later the new gnome iso, but only if it is to use only gnome software like abiword, epiphany browser, gimp, gnumeric especially.
is that possible and how to avoid that other smudge software (firefoxe, office, krita) and her big dependencies and data files comes into my new installation?
thank you for your info and help (if really possible)!
if not how to contact the developper/s of the night build to ask her to publish sometime such iso’s for ex. each Monday one edition completelly without those pertubators from other linux branches? and edition completelly without some browser or office or draw / paint application where each user can decide what he will install probably dependent from his experience and actual habits!
I’m not sure to what kind of ISO you’re referring to here. Maybe a link to it would help with understanding.
Though a few notes to start:
First, Abiword, GIMP and Gnumeric are not GNOME Software. There using GTK, but are not following the GNOME Human Interface Guideline and there aren’t part of the GNOME group.
Just to be clear, this is not meant to mean their bad or anything, just that they are not GNOME Software as per definition.
Second, there is no stable GNOME ISO currently. GNOME is distributed by various distributions, like Fedora, Arch or Ubuntu. They are independent of GNOME and free to decide which software is bundled in their ISOs.
If you have questions about their packaging choices, you’d should look at their websites for details.
Third, you can just uninstall the software if you want to in many cases. It’s your system at the end.
A small attendum at the end about the second point:
There exists one ISO directly by GNOME, which would be GNOME OS Nightly. That being said, it is currently still a test-bed for the development of GNOME. So while it is quite useable in my experience, bugs and issues are expected. If you looking for a stable system, I’d currently still look at Fedora Silverblue instead.
Anyway, for GNOME OS, the official place to get it would be os.gnome.org
oh! Thank you very much bor this clarification, dear CodedOre. I did think since years, that Gnome is more than a deguisement of the screen and also produces utiliies really very able to produce some what more than only an interesting environment… I am confuse: I did thing that GTK and Gnome, that about the same!
The new ISO is the one actually announced at distrowatch. Probably nothing interesting also for me, as a desktop is not interesting alone, if it has only exactly the same things to offer as all othe, exactly de same: firefox, LO or OO and gimp is absent!
Well, it is true that GNOME is more than just the desktop. And it is true that some software can be considered GNOME software. Epiphany, or GNOME Web, is a good example for this.
However, for it to be GNOME Software, I consider it important for the app to follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (some rules defining how the app is supposed to look and work). There are quite a lot of apps who follow these guidelines.
But GTK can also be used for software not following the GNOME guidelines. GIMP for example would be such an example.
At the end, it is a bit of an arbitrary distinction.