Shotwell issue in GNOME flavor(s) of Ubuntu

[Tim]

On 28/05/14 10:53, Jim Nelson wrote:
> This problem has been outstanding for some time now:
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1314904
I commented on the bug, however its not something I am likely to have time to look at any time soon. I see you are a shotwell maintainer?
perhaps you would consider merging the UOA code (with proper run-time selection, somewhat like what empathy for example does) or even just
fixing the patch!

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/shotwell/utopic/view/head:/debian/patches/06_uoa.patch
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> 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).
That is correct, however most (if not all) other apps that use UOA have run-time checks to determine wether to use UOA or GOA. Unfortunately
this wasnt included in the shotwell patches and of course shotwell doesn't even use GOA but the principle is the same.

Tim
Ubuntu GNOME
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> If I have any of the above wrong, please let me know.
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> 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.
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> If the Unity dependency is off the table, my suggestion is for non-Unity spins to distribute Shotwell with the original (non-UOA) plugins.
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> Can this be prioritized and fixed for our users?
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> -- Jim
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