Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that

Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro at gnome.org
Sat Aug 30 16:42:25 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 19:22 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> I really don't undertand why "not installing the release notes" is
> such a big change we need to wait for the next cycle to implement.
> It's really just a one line change. And if we want to install them but
> not provide a launcher (so they could be opened by a bookmark in
> Firefox) than I'd happily provide a patch to split the launcher to a
> subpackage.

Eh, I'm just picking my battles here. A Release Notes launcher that
starts Firefox is not good and we should get rid of it, but it's not
very bad either and if the release notes people want another cycle to
rethink how to present the release notes, well why not let them have it?

Another thing we could do is add it as a default web app. GNOME Software
requires "epiphany-runtime" which is all of Epiphany except the desktop
file, so that it can install and remove web apps. Well, why not make the
release notes a web app -- then the release notes team gets to keep the
desktop launcher, and we are happy since it's a real application.
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