On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ajmctaggart wrote:
My question is this, why do we need to login to Launchpad
through our web browser to report these bugs? I feel it is extremely
disruptive, especially when something non-essential crashes and Ubuntu
asks if I'd like to file a bug. Of course I'd like to file a bug!
That's what I am supposed to do, correct? But this practice makes my
work-flow crippled, and it takes quite a bit more time than a built in
submittal tool. Over the past three days, I've gotten tired booting my
machine, logging in, something crashes, bug report needs to be filed,
now I have to go to Firefox. For goodness sake, I just need to get
into a pdf for work or school! Now that I'm on the web...hmm, work or
browsing? :) Of course, maybe this is just a poor example of me trying
to get out of work, but I think you get the point.
>From what I can see, this system function is about 85% darn near
perfect. That last 15% is how the bug is actually placed in the
system. Is anyone interested in creating a bug reporting mechanism or
interface for Launchpad that allows a user to submit his Launchpad I.D.
and password, and NOT have to be moved to firefox to finish the bug
submission?
It's a damn good question! In general, the meme of "desktop apps
talking natively to LP" is very cool. We want the Software Center to be
able to automatically add PPA's you're subscribed to, for example.
The Ubuntu One guys should be delivering an API which lets an app get
credentials in LP without going via the web. Elliot Murphy would be
able to connect us to the right person on that team.
Those credentials could then be used to complete the bug submission,
without hitting the web browser at all.
Mark
I think that I am going different route than intended, but should such integration end with bug submissions? What about asking questions with sort of a GUI interface to Launchpad Answers directly without a browser?
How about my launchpad account would be a Jabber account as well? So I could "chat" with any other Launchpad user using Empathy and already configured user/password?
How about my launchpad account would be a StatusNet account as well and I could participate in real time communications over Launchpad?
It would be also interesting, for example, if I could get notification that a bug I've been subscribed to is closed, without hitting the browser.
Alex.