Re: gdmsetup - offering to assist / asking for direction / solution ppa

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 15 février 2010 à 17:38 +1100, Robert Ancell a écrit :
> We would like to make the utility more obviously available, or
> > perhaps even take what ever steps are necessary to offer it into the
> > standard Ubuntu distribution channels (perhaps for Lucid?). 

Hi,

Let me start by saying you did great work on this tools. Robert has
replied to your question already but I've some extra ones for you.

Do you plan to contribute some of the options you worked back to the
"official" gdmsetup utility (the one shipped with Ubuntu)? There is a
specification on
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-gdmsetup
which summarize what was discussed at UDS.
While your tools is nice and will probably benefit many users it would
be even nicer to have common options in the default installation.

One another option would be to consider shipping your tools by default.
We are trying to move away from running graphical interface under gksudo
though so it would be nicer if you would use policykit there. Do you
have any plan for that? The number of options and the tool complexity
would also need to be discussed if we were going to do that. 
It could make sense to keep two different tools though, a simple one
with the most common options in the default set and one with all the
options listed which users who want extra settings access could install.


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Re: gdmsetup - offering to assist / asking for direction / solution ppa

[Robert Ancell]

Hi Garth,

No problem contacting me directly; I've also forwarded this to the 
Ubuntu Desktop mailing list (generally the best place to announce 
Desktop related work).

I can help by blogging about this tool so that (hopefully) more people 
will use the PPA.

I'd also recommend announcing it on a site like http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/.

The next step is to get the package into Universe so anyone can install 
it.  The process is here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

You can talk to developers by hanging out in #ubuntu-desktop and 
#ubuntu-devel on Freenode.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

Thanks for contributing!
--Robert

Garth Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Garth Johnson, and together with Nick Glynn we have developed
> a solution for many of the requested features for the newer gdmsetup
> utility.  The utility (GDM2Setup) is available on launchpad as a PPA at
> https://launchpad.net/gdm2setup and has been in public use for over a
> month now - with very positive feedback from all of it's users.
>
> I am writing to ask for direction and/or suggestions in where to go from
> here.  We would like to make the utility more obviously available, or
> perhaps even take what ever steps are necessary to offer it into the
> standard Ubuntu distribution channels (perhaps for Lucid?).  Many users
> have asked for the features included within the utility, however I do
> not think that the average user even knows that it exists yet - based on
> the many forums and scads of current posts over the subject by the Gnome
> (and related) community.  GDM2Setup is designed and primarily tested in
> Ubuntu, but many others have chimed in saying that it is functioning
> quite well in other distros.
>
> I apologize if I am in error in contacting you specifically over this. 
> I am not sure what the correct protocol or avenue is for this kind of
> thing and am very interested in learning anything I can to accomplish
> this goal.  I would like to become a more useful and productive member
> of the Ubuntu (and Linux as a whole) community.  Please help me or
> direct me where to go or what to do to achieve this more effectively?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any assistance or information that you can give us,
>
> Garth Johnson
>   


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