Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 12:03 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: All - Why? I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and the

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Rick Spencer
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:00 +0530, Vishnoo wrote: Users are redirected to http://in.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/dc/system_requirements?os=unsupported This happens *every* time one tries to login.[attaching screenshot] If we are considering moving Ubuntu to Yahoo! search as default. Atleast

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Ricardo Cacheta Waldemarin
It's a little diferent of the Microsoft changing the Firefox default search engine but don't you think the users will complain the same way? I really think that users should be. at least, notified during update. ··~Ricardo Cacheta Waldemarin ⠠⠵ Graduando em Informática Biomédica USP-RP~··

RFE: allow removal of single gnome-utils app

2010-01-27 Thread Rafael Gattringer
Dear developers, recently I wanted to remove a single app of the gnome-utils package but couldn't. Since the apps are bundled, I would have to remove all the other apps at the same time. The dummy user like me has no idea of the underlying application packages. In the worst case a user would

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Di, Jan 26, 2010 at 21:03:01 (CET), Rick Spencer wrote: Change #2 Change #2 is changing the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo! Can this default be configured on a system wide level? I imagine that sites with mass deployments of lucid would want to have the option to configure

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 19:08, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:14 -0500, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only have an effect on new installs? No, this will effect upgrades if the computer is

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:46, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:17 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote: Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you to consider keeping the current setting whatever it is (Google or not). People tend

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 21:00, Carlos Ribeiro carribe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:46, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:17 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote: Given the sensitivity of this change for many people, I would ask you to

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Dan Trevino
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Rick Spencer rick.spen...@canonical.comwrote: On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 15:14 -0500, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only have an effect on new installs? No, this will effect upgrades if the computer is

Re: Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

2010-01-27 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi all, Glad this Canonical is getting a search revenue stream, I just have a few concerns that I haven't seen discussed. Does Yahoo have an equivalent of I'm Feeling Lucky for the Firefox awesomebar or is google still going to be providing that? If you switch that functionality to just being a