Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-12 Thread Tim
On 12/08/15 07:56, Robert Ancell wrote: For us to use GNOME Software we probably want to update to the latest version [1]. That's currently blocked because it needs PackageKit 1.0 [2]. And that's blocked until we get a Click update. If anyone knows more migration issues please add

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 30/07/2015 19:13, Amr Ibrahim a écrit : I suggest putting a roadmap for this to see if it's possible or not. Hey Amr, Having a roadmap and people interested in working on the transition seems like a good first step! Before suggesting a replacement the alternative should be proved to be good

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-11 Thread Robert Ancell
For us to use GNOME Software we probably want to update to the latest version [1]. That's currently blocked because it needs PackageKit 1.0 [2]. And that's blocked until we get a Click update. If anyone knows more migration issues please add information to those bugs. I suspect we might also need

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-04 Thread Simon Quigley
I agree with S. Why can't we make improvements? Why do we waste our time ranting about how horrible a piece of software is and how it should be replaced, when we as developers can scratch that itch? Submit bug reports, feature requests, and use it! It is open-source for a reason. This is not

Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-03 Thread S.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:13:39PM +0300, Amr Ibrahim wrote: I suggest dropping USC in future Ubuntu releases and adopt GNOME Software. I personally think this is a bad idea. I have extensively tested and tried to like Gnome Software on Fedora and openSUSE, but it was pretty awful in my

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-08-01 Thread Tim
On 01/08/15 02:50, Iain Lane wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:13:39PM +0300, Amr Ibrahim wrote: Dear developers, USC is getting old. It is in Python 2, and probably will never be ported to Python 3. I suggest dropping USC in future Ubuntu releases and adopt GNOME Software. GNOME

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-07-31 Thread Iain Lane
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:13:39PM +0300, Amr Ibrahim wrote: Dear developers, USC is getting old. It is in Python 2, and probably will never be ported to Python 3. I suggest dropping USC in future Ubuntu releases and adopt GNOME Software. GNOME Software is build on newer GNOME

RE: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-07-30 Thread Amr Ibrahim
On 30/07/15 19:31, Jacky Alcine wrote: That'd require GNOME to be willing to have an extensibility factor to allow for USC features to be incorporated into it. It's fine. Ubuntu developers could sync a local tree of the software in Launchpad and patch those features only locally if they are

Re: Drop Ubuntu Software Centre and Adopt GNOME Software

2015-07-30 Thread Jacky Alcine
On Thursday, July 30, 2015 08:13:39 PM Amr Ibrahim wrote: Dear developers, USC is getting old. It is in Python 2, and probably will never be ported to Python 3. I suggest dropping USC in future Ubuntu releases and adopt GNOME Software. GNOME Software is build on newer GNOME technologies.