Inappropriately depends on unity8

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

indicator-network 0.5.1+14.04.20140409.1-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 14.04

1. apt-cache show indicator-network | grep Depends

What happens: The result includes unity8.

What should happen: The result does not include unity8.

This prevents indicator-network from being used in Elementary Pantheon, for example.

[Originally reported by Carlin Mangar in <https://code.launchpad.net/~voldyman/indicator-network/onlyshowin-add-pantheon/+merge/215570>.]

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Also note comment in related bug #1301699:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-network/+bug/1301699/comments/8

[Antti Kaijanmäki (kaijanmaki)]

Indicator-network depends on unity8 as it's the only notification-service implementation that has all of the required extended menuitems and snap decisions.

For indicator-network to be usable outside unity8, few things have to happen:

1. We need to introduce a virtual package unity-notifications-service
2. unity8 must claim to provide unity-notifications-service
3. indicator-network must depend on this virtual package
4. Pantheon must implement the extended menuitems and snap decisions and have it's notification service of choice to claim to provide unity-notifications-service

Unless somebody from the community commits to 4. this will stay in the wishlist category.

[Antti Kaijanmäki (kaijanmaki)]

oh, and:

5. introduce unity-indicator-service virtual package

and apply steps 1, 2, 3, 4 to it as well.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Providing a virtual package would be one way of solving this bug. If that is the approach, I would suggest using a clearer name than "unity-notifications-service": snap decisions are not really notifications, they are dialogs which as technical debt are *currently* implemented as part of a notification system.

A second way of solving this bug would be to move the dialogs into Network Manager (or a package it depends on), so that they can be used in places like the first-run setup and System Settings even if indicator-network isn't running.

A third way would be to make indicator-network completely non-interactive on Touch, having a menu only on PC, so it can use the existing NetworkManager UI for authorization etc.