ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 21:48 +0100, Sam Bull wrote:
> On ĵaŭ, 2014-07-17 at 14:49 -0700, Robert Park wrote:
> > Friends had a large number of Hard Problems that we weren't confident
> > we could solve before RTM, therefore it was decided to remove it from
> > the phone, which is an issue we can revisit for 15.04 if there's
> > enough interest in reviving it and solving its problems.
> > 
> > For now, and through RTM, webapps are the official way of accessing
> > social media sites on the Ubuntu Phone.
> 
> The webapp is really irritating me. It can't even remember my login.
> Please can Friends be pushed to the store? Even with all the annoying
> bugs I prefer it over this webapp.

It kept me logged in across sessions just fine.

Friends is nowhere near suitable for packaging as a click, so putting it
in the store isn't really an option. It's a long-running Python process
with plug-ins, and would need quite a lot of work to make it suitable as
a click package.