Allow dynamic Lens loading

Bug #606277 reported by Neil J. Patel
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This bug affects 15 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
unity-2d
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Medium
Unassigned
unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently you need to restart Unity when a lens is installed. As lenses are over D-Bus anyway, dynamic place loading can be allowed safely.

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-07-29 → backlog
Revision history for this message
David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Kept for reference, but not a priority for now (hence the Wishlist)

Changed in unity:
assignee: Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → nobody
importance: Low → Wishlist
milestone: backlog → none
tags: added: backlog
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity-2d:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

I just tested with the "Ask Ubuntu" place in unity-2d, it works just fine without having to restart any component.

Changed in unity-2d:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Jorge Castro (jorge)
summary: - Allow dynamic Place loading
+ Allow dynamic Lens loading
description: updated
Changed in unity:
importance: Wishlist → High
Changed in unity-2d:
importance: Wishlist → High
Jorge Castro (jorge)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
milestone: backlog → 4.16.0
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.16.0 → 4.18.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.18.0 → 4.20.0
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.20.0 → 4.22.0
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 4.22.0 → backlog
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
assignee: Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → nobody
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → nobody
Changed in unity:
importance: High → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: High → Medium
Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Lorenzo Mattei (lore-mattei)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in unity:
assignee: Lorenzo Mattei (lore-mattei) → nobody
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Tim Penhey (thumper)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
Tim Penhey (thumper)
tags: added: exbacklog
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
milestone: none → backlog
Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)
Changed in unity:
milestone: backlog → none
Revision history for this message
Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote :

As part of the big bug clear up for 16.04 we have reviewed this bug and we will not be working on it in the near future. Sorry we can't offer you a fix. We will of course review patches if anyone submits them. Please stop by IRC to discuss this option.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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