Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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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:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntustudio-meta package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Kinetic:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Kinetic:
Confirmed
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.
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