Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 14.04.2011, 12:39 -0500 schrieb Ted Gould:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:49 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Unless it's a package developed specifically for Ubuntu, it's really not a bug 
> > in the package from an upstream perspective.  Some upstreams will choose to 
> > support Ubuntu specific requirements and others won't.  For those that don't, 
> > either users will lose out on functionality or we'll have to develop and 
> > maintain Ubuntu specific patches.  
> > 
> > I doubt it's supportable to deal with Ubuntu patches for all the relevant 
> > Universe packages.  We also know there are some important applicaitons that 
> > can't/won't support the migration, so it's either live with a legacy 
> > notification area or not support these packages.  I suspect that, in the 
> > interest of giving the users fully functional applications we'll come down on 
> > the side of supporting the notification area for these packages.  It makes 
> > sense to me, given that, just to plan on supporting it generally for 
> > applications that use it.
> 
> I hope that one day we can get to the point of having UI requirements on
> applications within the Ubuntu process similar to the security
> requirements that exist with an MIR today.
> 
> So, for instance a package couldn't be in the Ubuntu archive:
>       * if it required the system tray
>       * didn't support localization
>       * didn't have basic accessibility support
>       * doesn't provide any user documentation
>       * uses it's own notification system instead of the FD.o one

Do you really want to reject those package if they do not meet the
criteria above? I think everything (complying to the DFSG) should be
accepted in universe. Having those restrictions for packages in main
would be fine.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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