GNOME Software in 16.04 LTS

[flocculant at gmx.co.uk]

On 15/01/16 08:16, Robert Ancell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As you may be aware, we're currently looking at switching from Ubuntu 
> Software Center to GNOME Software for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS [1].
>
> If you're interested in playing around / helping out:
> - I've set up a ppa:ubuntu-desktop/gnome-software [2] for which 
> currently holds PackageKit 1.0 and GNOME Software with some patches to 
> support the Ubuntu review server. Installing this will boot out 
> software-center / aptdaemon.
> - We're blocked from pushing this directly to the Xenial archive [3] - 
> but we hope to have some progress on that soon.
> - The GNOME software work is being done upstream in GNOME git. It 
> should be upstreamable.
> - Please file bugs against the gnome-software package [4]
> - I'm still working on the Ubuntu One support for posting reviews - 
> ideally this would use libaccounts but that doesn't seem to be working 
> in desktop Ubuntu anymore. Any help here would be appreciated. Plan B 
> is to put the account signup UI in GNOME Software (not too hard, but 
> would be nicer to use the proper services).
> - I've tagged some bugs on things that need working on [5].
> - The appstream data is being worked on - I'll let Iain Lane update 
> about that.
>
> Have fun!
> --Robert
>
> [1] 
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/11/the-ubuntu-software-centre-is-being-replace-in-16-04-lts
> [2] 
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-software 
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-software>
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bug/1470655
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+filebug
> [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.tag=gnome-software-ubuntu
>
>
>
>
Hi, thanks Robert.

This took out system-config-printer here in addition to what you 
expected (Xubuntu)

regards


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