Re: Unity desktop and maverick backport

2010-11-18 Thread Shane Fagan
Well there always is VMs and separate ubuntu installs for testing without breakages affecting your desktop usage. --fagan On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:47 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > In my opinion, for what it is worth, this sounds like an unfortunate, > but necessary trade off. > > I think we wil

Re: continuing conversation from UDS-N - Application Review Board

2010-11-17 Thread Shane Fagan
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 11:38 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: > Does "/opt/ubuntu/" perhaps suggest a bit of "officialness" or support > from the Ubuntu community, whereas these apps are specifically *not* > suppose to have such a connotation? Yeah I get what Rick is saying here. Does using /opt/ubuntu

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

2010-10-14 Thread Shane Fagan
H ive been thinking about this topic again and one thing came into my head and that was are .deb packages actually straightforward to deliver easily? The answer for me is yes and no ive delved into the packaging docs a few times and found it to be very difficult to understand and when I actuall

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

2010-10-14 Thread Shane Fagan
:05 +0200, Didier Roche wrote: > Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 22:52 +0100, Bruno Girin a écrit : > > On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 15:44 +0100, Shane Fagan wrote: > > > > > The libs included in the default change a lot so maintaining a list > > > would be hard and I