Ubuntu Tweak was submitted to the ARB

[Allison Randal]

Hi Ding,

It's approved that you can install the essential files for the dbus
service in /usr/share, specifically, you can install .service files in
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/.

What files are you installing in /usr/share/polkit-1 and
/usr/share/glib-2.0? They may be installable into /opt. If not, let us
know the details of why it doesn't work, and we'll figure out what's
possible.

Icons you should install in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-tweak. You can
set the path to the icon in the .desktop file for the app.

The python files that you're currently installing in /usr/lib, can be
installed in /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-tweak. You'll need to add the
/opt paths to Python's sys.path in your app, but that's pretty
straightforward. Here's one common code snippet:

======
if os.path.abspath(__file__).startswith('/opt'):
    sys.path.insert(0, '/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-tweak')
======

The configuration files should also be installed in /opt, or into the
user's home directory if it's user-specific. (The app will only be able
to read from /opt, not write to it, so if users change the config file,
it'll have to be in their home directory.) You can use a similar path
check to the one above for sys.path, and set an alternate location for
the config file when the app is installed in /opt. Or, you can make the
change as a patch in the packaging files. Either works, so pick
whichever is easier for you.

BTW, a side-comment about the name, the Ubuntu trademark guidelines seem
to discourage naming apps like "Ubuntu Tweak", and encourage naming them
more like "Tweak for Ubuntu". For more details see:
http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy

If you have any questions on how to make these changes, you can reply to
this message, get in touch with us on the
ubuntu-app-devel at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list, or on IRC
#ubuntu-app-devel on Freenode.

Thanks,
Allison