** Also affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New
** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Kinetic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Rik Mills (rikmills) ** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Kinetic) Milestone: None => ubuntu-22.10-beta -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to ubuntustudio-meta in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: UbuntuStudioPackages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1989263 Title: [FFe] plasma-distro-release-notifier for Ubuntu Studio and/or Kubuntu Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntustudio-meta package in Ubuntu: New Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Kinetic: New Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Kinetic: New Bug description: plasma-distro-release-notifier is an applet which, in conjunction with update-notifier, notifies the user of a new version of Ubuntu using the same logic that update-notifier currently uses from the configuration in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. This has been sorely missing from previous releases of Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu and should be included in all releases of Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu going forward and should be included in currently supported releases. Currently, users are not prompted when a new version of Ubuntu is released, and as such, users of the Plasma desktop (Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu) get stuck on an EOL release very quickly. I have seen several posts on #kubuntu and Reddit requesting help because the user simply did not know that they needed to update their machine to a newer release. Including this package would prevent that. Tests on 20.04 using the same package have been successful, with not only a notification, but also a tray icon indicating that the upgrade is available. The intention will be, once through this FFe process, to backport the package via SRU to 22.04. A stretch goal would be to backport the same package to Kubuntu 20.04 through the same process as it is still supported until April 2023 and many users there are not getting the prompt to upgrade. I am still awaiting buy-in from the Kubuntu team to see if they would be interested in this, but this seems like, from a UX standpoint, something they definitely should have. As of this writing, plasma-distro-release-notifier has been accepted into kinetic. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1989263/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : ubuntustudio-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp