As Xenial is going to use Unity 7 by default, it would be nice if this is enabled for Xenial release.
** Summary changed: - Re-enable friends-service for Unity-7 until a viable option is available(Vivid) + Re-enable friends-service for Unity-7 until a viable option is available(Xenial) ** Tags removed: vivid ** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to friends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406358 Title: Re-enable friends-service for Unity-7 until a viable option is available(Xenial) Status in friends package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Friends-service was disabled during Utopic cycle for new social app integration on Unity8. But Unity-8 social app is still not very usable on desktop & Unity 8 is yet to get a working "desktop" mode. This results Unity-social-lens & friends-app (now depreciated) useless. (bug #1383681, bug #1384164) Please re-activate friends-service so that it can work with unity- social-lens....until a viable option is available or until Unity 8 is adopted on desktop. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friends/+bug/1406358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp