Shotwell issue in GNOME flavor(s) of Ubuntu

[Jim Nelson]

This problem has been outstanding for some time now:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1314904

As I understand the situation, some (all?) of the GNOME flavors of 
Ubuntu don't mark the UOA packages as a necessary or suggested 
dependency for Shotwell.  When users go to publish photos on 
UOA-supported services, Shotwell simply fails to work with no warning 
dialog, just some ugly console warnings.  Apparently this change was 
made to avoid installing a large chunk of the Unity subsystem on a 
machine just for Shotwell (although I would think this affects other 
UOA apps too).

If I have any of the above wrong, please let me know.

This is a rather nasty problem for our users.  There's no indication in 
the software what they need to do to make this work.

If the Unity dependency is off the table, my suggestion is for 
non-Unity spins to distribute Shotwell with the original (non-UOA) 
plugins.

Can this be prioritized and fixed for our users?

-- Jim
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