Re: [Ayatana-dev] unity 5.0 and lenses

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/19/2012 11:19 AM, David Callé wrote:
> On 19/01/2012 01:13, Andrea Pocosgnich wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I have a question for you (I hope this is the right place):
> >
> > i've just installed unity 5.0 on mi Ubuntu 11.10 (3.2.0-9-generic-pae)
> > and i can tell you that is fantastic, very fast, but I cannot use
> > lenses. For example the lens for youtube searching: when i write a
> > video to search it doesn't find anything , internet connection
> > obviously works, same issue for torrent search lens. Maybe these lens
> > are not compatible yet with unity 5.0?
>
> Hello Andrea,
>
> you are right : lenses need a bit of work to be ported to Unity 5.0.
>
> I can't answer for the Youtube one, but lenses from this PPA
> https://code.launchpad.net/~scopes-packagers/+archive/ppa
> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Escopes-packagers/+archive/ppa> are
> currently being ported and should be ready in a week or two.

Right. David is correct. We broke the lenses API (slightly) in Unity-5.0 
because of a lot of reasons. I tried to outline the thinking here 
http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=585

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,
Mikkel