Why is this a mandatory package at this stage of the desktop? Unless I missed something, we don't ship any of these applets in the default panel config, and it's not required by anything on a normal desktop install.
Bill
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Why is this a mandatory package at this stage of the desktop? Unless I missed something, we don't ship any of these applets in the default panel config, and it's not required by anything on a normal desktop install.
A concern here is there's a big difference between mandatory (installed by default) and optional (deeply buried, you have to know a magic package name string to find). We could possibly change the "Add to Panel" dialog to have a button "Install Popular Applets" which calls out to PackageKit if we wanted to reduce disk space usage or whatever I guess.
2009/12/15 Colin Walters walters@verbum.org:
"Install Popular Applets" which calls out to PackageKit
That would be about 10 lines of code. See http://packagekit.org/files/session.c for an example.
Richard.
On 12/15/2009 03:37 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Why is this a mandatory package at this stage of the desktop? Unless I missed something, we don't ship any of these applets in the default panel config, and it's not required by anything on a normal desktop install.
Moving it from mandatory to default sounds fine to me (if that's what you're proposing)
gnome-panel already ships the "mandatory" ones in its tarball.
--Ray
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Ray Strode rstrode@redhat.com wrote:
On 12/15/2009 03:37 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Why is this a mandatory package at this stage of the desktop? Unless I missed something, we don't ship any of these applets in the default panel config, and it's not required by anything on a normal desktop install.
Moving it from mandatory to default sounds fine to me (if that's what you're proposing)
Oh, right; I did jump to the conclusion that the proposal was mandatory->optional. default seems sane to me too.
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