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[Bug 1054746] Re: [FFe] [UIFe] No easy way to disable (results from) this lens

 

-1 from the Docs Team.

Adding a switch to System Settings means that our docs are out of date.
These are the docs that I spent most of my weekend working on, since the
Design Team really needed to get those dozens of UI Freeze Exceptions
done beyond the last possible minute on Thursday, and even Monday (for
the new launcher icons). Every one agreed that docs would freeze
yesterday at 9 pm UTC. That still gave all day Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
and Tuesday for Canonical to scramble to find a fix for this problem.

This is why we shouldn't approve very late major Feature Freeze
Exceptions/User Interface Freeze Exceptions. These features *will* need
tweaking.

At some point, we actually do hit a hard User Interface Freeze/Feature
Freeze. Considering that those "deadlines" passed a month ago, I believe
we've already reached that point.

Also, I don't think we can approve this until it is explicit about what
exactly the UI will look like. If that's not agreed upon in advance,
then there is a decent chance that people will want to change it again.

>From the docs side, you could just add an extra gsettings string. We
don't document dconf-editor and while we do have some "gsettings set"
instructions on other pages, you could say that arguably using Software
Center to remove the lens is better since it's graphical and easier. Or
you could remove the shopping feature. It's very easy to remove
documentation.

For reference, this is the docs page:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu-docs/quantal/view/head:/ubuntu-help/C/unity-shopping.page

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Title:
  [FFe] [UIFe] No easy way to disable (results from) this lens

Status in LibUnity:
  Triaged
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in Google Documents Lens:
  In Progress
Status in unity-lens-music:
  Triaged
Status in Unity Shopping Lens:
  Triaged
Status in Unity Remote Videos scope:
  Triaged
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “libunity” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-lens-music” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-lens-shopping” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “unity-scope-video-remote” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gnome-control-center” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “libunity” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “unity-lens-applications” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “unity-lens-music” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “unity-lens-shopping” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “unity-scope-video-remote” source package in Quantal:
  New

Bug description:
  We will add an option either in the appearance or privacy gnome-
  control-center panel (this is yet to be discussed with design).

  This Commercial/Online suggestions on/off switch enables to remove all suggestions in the dash and default lenses:
  - shopping lens suggestions in the home dash
  - u1 music store result in the music lens
  - u1 results in the video lens

  All components and libunity are impacted by the change, as well as
  gnome-control-center. A couple of new strings will be added to the
  latest for the option.

  ------------

  The fact that this lens is installed by default means that users are
  shown commercial content as search results by default in the home
  screen, and that search queries are sent to an external (to the user)
  server. It's reasonable that one might want to turn this behaviour
  off. While it is possible to uninstall the package, this isn't a
  particularly intuitive route for most.

  Other lenses have a 'Filter results' item, which would solve this if
  on the home screen. Otherwise, an option somewhere in the control
  centre (privacy?) would be good.

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