This problem has been outstanding for some time now:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1314904
As I understand the situation, some (all?) of the GNOME flavors of
Ubuntu don't mark the UOA packages as a necessary or suggested
dependency for Shotwell. When users go to publish photos on
UOA-supported services, Shotwell simply fails to work with no warning
dialog, just some ugly console warnings. Apparently this change was
made to avoid installing a large chunk of the Unity subsystem on a
machine just for Shotwell (although I would think this affects other
UOA apps too).
If I have any of the above wrong, please let me know.
This is a rather nasty problem for our users. There's no indication in
the software what they need to do to make this work.
If the Unity dependency is off the table, my suggestion is for
non-Unity spins to distribute Shotwell with the original (non-UOA)
plugins.
Can this be prioritized and fixed for our users?
-- Jim
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