Comment 10 for bug 1366421

On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 11:59 +0000, Francesco Fumanti wrote:
> On 2015-12-04 00:22, marmuta wrote:
> > I think the Onboard team (me and Francesco, lately) would
> > definitely support this.
>
> +1
>
> > > My immediate goal is to see if I can get onboard a possible 1st
> > > class
> > > replacement for Caribou.
> > Ideally we would be able to simply select one out of a number of
> > available keyboards. I feel this will be an uphill battle, though.
>
> Once Onboard plays nicely with GNOME, it might be easier to get
> support
> from Upstream GNOME for it, as Onboard could be seen as a temporary
> solution until caribou has been improved.
>

Yes. I guess so. Or rather I'd like to see it more as, "2 available
choices".

> > > If you get the GNOME SHell Extension improvements into onboard
> > > upstream itself, it'd definite...
> > @Francesco, what do you think? Hypothetically, would a suggests
> > dependency to a new, say, onboard-gnome package make sense? We
> > would need to get permission from the original extension author of
> > course and then see what can be done for better integration.
>
> I am now taking the use case of people into account, that are
> installing
> GNOME alongside unity in Ubuntu.
>
> If I get it right, according to the debian policy, a package (the
> onboard package) should work also if a suggest dependency (the
> onboard-
> gnome package, once it exists) is not installed. But, I suppose that
> onboard will not work properly in GNOME without the onboard-gnome
> extension. So, the onboard-gnome package should probably rather be a
> Recommends, if not even a Depends. A depends on the onboard-gnome
> package in the default onboard package might not be possible as I
> don't
> expect an onboard-gnome package to enter the main repository.
>
> That does not mean that we cannot add a suggest; as a hint for the
> maintainers of the GNOME metapackage package to add a Depends on
> onboard-gnome in the GNOME metapackage package. In fact, I think the
> right place for the onboard-gnome dependency is the GNOME metapackage
> in
> this use case.
>
> I would also suggest to add a few sentences about it in the Readme of
> Onboard.
>
> Finally, we can also contact the people maintaining the GNOME
> metapackage about it, once the onboard-gnome package is available.
>

So, I'm assuming you guys are okay with the code/logic of what the
shell extensions are doing ? And that you'll add the same into onboard,
as a gnome plugin/enhancement/extension ?

And then, individual distributions will decide on how they want to
build the relationship of the packages, which will be mostly in line
with what you've described above ?

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