Ubuntu 14.10 onwards: Convergence is coming...

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Robert Ancell wrote on 15/04/14 23:25:
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher
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>> Le 15/04/2014 04:32, Robert Ancell a écrit :
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>>> Put PolicyKit handling into the shell. We use policykit-gnome 
>>> for the dialogs but GNOME uses the shell for this. We should
>>> be doing the same. A nice to have would be to implement this
>>> in both Unity 7 and Unity 8 but as long as it is there by 
>>> convergence then we're good to go.
>> 
>> Having them in the shell would probably make sense. Did we have a
>> design for those? IIRC, at the different of GNOME, we wanted them
>> more like "normal dialogs" (e.g not doing the "dim the 
>> screen/grab focus/be in the middle locking everything else"). If 
>> that's the case we might want to keep the -gnome version for 
>> unity7 (since the shell is not using an "app toolkit").

It needs toolkit-quality controls regardless of its window mode: for
example, a combo box for listing user accounts, and an expander
control for revealing and hiding policy details.

> No idea about designs, needs following up.

Ready and waiting. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AccountPrivileges>

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>>> Make Ubuntu System Settings [1] desktop capable
>> 
>> That item is similar to the previous one. We also need desktop 
>> designs for ubuntu-system-settings.

Some of the panels already have PC designs, though most aren't
complete yet. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemSettings>

> Yes, but this one we can only switch as default once all the 
> functionality is complete. At least with u-s-d we can do it in 
> parts.

That is a huge amount of work. Just the Network panel alone would be
several person-months.

> So, I think in summary: Lots of leaning on mpt/design :)

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