Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 03:17:47 PM Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 20:47 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 14.04.2011, 12:39 -0500 schrieb Ted Gould:
> > > 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.
> 
> I want to reiterate that the list above was just off the top of my head
> meant as an example more than to be definitive.  For most of these
> examples I would think that main is a more reasonable target.
> 
> But, I'd also love to see the requirements for Universe be something
> higher than just the DFSG.  For instance, I believe Debian requires
> everything in /usr/bin to have a man page.  Many of these I see as the
> modern desktop equivalent of having a man page.

Debian requires it and it's a bug if it's missing, but it doesn't block the 
package being in the archive.

Scott K