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[Julien Lavergne <julien.lavergne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guido,

Thank you for you work on it :)
I'll take care of the debian directory and all debian packaging relative
stuff.

IMO, the easiest way for extras screenlets is to create another project,
like "Screenlets Extras", managed by a new team. It will be possible to
manage authorization differently for Core and Extras.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 20:54 +0900, boamaod@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have done various changes to main branch now. I haven't removed any of the
> present functionality except installing Screenlets into system directories
> from UI. I think this is not normally needed and not a good practise anyway.
> It would have made installing of Debian packages utter nonsense because of
> possible conflicts.
> 
> ORGANIZATION
> 
> 1. Updated Debian building system
> 2. Updated translation file directories to be compatible with Launchpad
> 3. Moved all individual Screenlets temporarily to
>     lp:~screenlets-stayinalive/screenlets/screenlets-individual
> 4. Prepared individual Screenlets to be installed
>      a. As individual Screenlets from tar.gz (from WWW) into usual
>         ~/.screenlets/* (and not system directories)
>      b. As individual Screenlets in Debian packages (supposedly from 
> PPA) into
>         usual /usr/share/screenlets/*
>      c. By means of Screenlets metapackages installing individual Screenlets
>         in Debian packages by dependencies into /usr/share/screenlets/*
>      d. By means of Screenlets packs actually containing Screenlets code
>         into ~/.screenlets/screenlet-pack-*/*
> 
> Concerning 2, Launchpad needs to be configured to update translations
> automatically (at least export from Screenlets to Launchpad). This can 
> be done
> by project administrator only.
> 
> Concerning 3 and 4, Screenlets PPA should be activated, to use, test and
> demonstrate the features of the new Screenlets packaging policy. PPA can be
> activated by project administrator only. After that I'd debianize all the
> individual Screenlets and put them on PPA. I think we should accept ANY
> Screenlet to the PPA/individual Screenlets project, but we should
> have some official packs of them, so only the best will be distributed with
> the original Screenlets core. I propose to name the pack published with
> Screenlets core "screenlets-pack-basic", by now we have also
> "screenlets-pack-all" (containing all the Screenlets). Both of these are
> real packages (not metapackages) in order to make possible to include them
> in official Debian/Ubuntu repositories (they don't accept millions of small
> Debian packages for Screenlets as it seems). There should be some policy
> of naming, versioning and making updates/modifications to present 
> Screenlets.
> 
> By now I moved individual Screenlets to branch owned by Screenlet 
> Stayinalive
> team and changed the team description. This is because already some 
> Universal
> Applets Teams had joined this team and since they should anyway have access,
> I decided to keep the existing team (as I said, until there are no problems,
> we should accept anybody who wants to join). I couldn't change the team 
> ID yet,
> because there was error on Launchpad deleting the PPA and policy doesn't 
> allow
> renaming a team when team has a PPA. I'll hope to do that later, if we 
> do not
> decide to create a whole new project fro individual Screenlets. I'd like to
> have your feedback on this.
> 
> Concerning 3 and 4, also the documentation on Screenlets.org needs to be
> updated. I wonder if Rico can give me access to the files for doing that.
> 
> Concerning 1, Debian packaging system actually needs a complete review, but
> until it works, I'd keep it like that.
> 
> COSMETICS
> 
> 1. Added tray icons and mono/light icons for Ubuntu
> 2. Made most of the console messages untranslatable
> 3. Added 'Add' menu to context menu and 'Quit' menu to notify area menu
> 4. Made icons to appear under launch Screenlet item in the notify area menu
> 5. Updated "get more Screenlets" address
> 
> CODE
> 
> 1. Implemented most of the pathces from bug tracker
> 2. Fixed some translation stuff (made strings translatable etc)
> 3. Implemented Debian package requirements checking for Screenlets
> 4. Implemented version checking/using the latest version for Screenlets
> 5. Implemented the changes needed for installing all kinds of Debian 
> packages
> 6. Added Screenlets Debianizer (to be used in creating PPAs etc)
> 7. Added Compiz setting to make screenlets stick to Desktop on 'Show 
> Desktop'
> 
> Concerning 5, there may be some refreshing issues. Since Screenlets are
> installed separately from Screenlets Manager, there may be some problems of
> updating the state of Screenlets directories/list at the right time.
> 
> It would be nice to have some feedback on this and I'd really like to hear,
> what are your plans for the future of Screenlets.
> 
> Guido Tabbernuk