Hi Guido, Thank you for you work on it :) I'll take care of the debian directory and all debian packaging relative stuff.
IMO, the easiest way for extras screenlets is to create another project, like "Screenlets Extras", managed by a new team. It will be possible to manage authorization differently for Core and Extras. Regards, Julien Lavergne Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 20:54 +0900, [email protected] a écrit : > Hello everybody, > > I have done various changes to main branch now. I haven't removed any of the > present functionality except installing Screenlets into system directories > from UI. I think this is not normally needed and not a good practise anyway. > It would have made installing of Debian packages utter nonsense because of > possible conflicts. > > ORGANIZATION > > 1. Updated Debian building system > 2. Updated translation file directories to be compatible with Launchpad > 3. Moved all individual Screenlets temporarily to > lp:~screenlets-stayinalive/screenlets/screenlets-individual > 4. Prepared individual Screenlets to be installed > a. As individual Screenlets from tar.gz (from WWW) into usual > ~/.screenlets/* (and not system directories) > b. As individual Screenlets in Debian packages (supposedly from > PPA) into > usual /usr/share/screenlets/* > c. By means of Screenlets metapackages installing individual Screenlets > in Debian packages by dependencies into /usr/share/screenlets/* > d. By means of Screenlets packs actually containing Screenlets code > into ~/.screenlets/screenlet-pack-*/* > > Concerning 2, Launchpad needs to be configured to update translations > automatically (at least export from Screenlets to Launchpad). This can > be done > by project administrator only. > > Concerning 3 and 4, Screenlets PPA should be activated, to use, test and > demonstrate the features of the new Screenlets packaging policy. PPA can be > activated by project administrator only. After that I'd debianize all the > individual Screenlets and put them on PPA. I think we should accept ANY > Screenlet to the PPA/individual Screenlets project, but we should > have some official packs of them, so only the best will be distributed with > the original Screenlets core. I propose to name the pack published with > Screenlets core "screenlets-pack-basic", by now we have also > "screenlets-pack-all" (containing all the Screenlets). Both of these are > real packages (not metapackages) in order to make possible to include them > in official Debian/Ubuntu repositories (they don't accept millions of small > Debian packages for Screenlets as it seems). There should be some policy > of naming, versioning and making updates/modifications to present > Screenlets. > > By now I moved individual Screenlets to branch owned by Screenlet > Stayinalive > team and changed the team description. This is because already some > Universal > Applets Teams had joined this team and since they should anyway have access, > I decided to keep the existing team (as I said, until there are no problems, > we should accept anybody who wants to join). I couldn't change the team > ID yet, > because there was error on Launchpad deleting the PPA and policy doesn't > allow > renaming a team when team has a PPA. I'll hope to do that later, if we > do not > decide to create a whole new project fro individual Screenlets. I'd like to > have your feedback on this. > > Concerning 3 and 4, also the documentation on Screenlets.org needs to be > updated. I wonder if Rico can give me access to the files for doing that. > > Concerning 1, Debian packaging system actually needs a complete review, but > until it works, I'd keep it like that. > > COSMETICS > > 1. Added tray icons and mono/light icons for Ubuntu > 2. Made most of the console messages untranslatable > 3. Added 'Add' menu to context menu and 'Quit' menu to notify area menu > 4. Made icons to appear under launch Screenlet item in the notify area menu > 5. Updated "get more Screenlets" address > > CODE > > 1. Implemented most of the pathces from bug tracker > 2. Fixed some translation stuff (made strings translatable etc) > 3. Implemented Debian package requirements checking for Screenlets > 4. Implemented version checking/using the latest version for Screenlets > 5. Implemented the changes needed for installing all kinds of Debian > packages > 6. Added Screenlets Debianizer (to be used in creating PPAs etc) > 7. Added Compiz setting to make screenlets stick to Desktop on 'Show > Desktop' > > Concerning 5, there may be some refreshing issues. Since Screenlets are > installed separately from Screenlets Manager, there may be some problems of > updating the state of Screenlets directories/list at the right time. > > It would be nice to have some feedback on this and I'd really like to hear, > what are your plans for the future of Screenlets. > > Guido Tabbernuk _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~screenlets-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
