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John Carr has started a launchpad team for packaging the newly released Google Gadgets. You can find the PPA here. I've created a project page so the source gets imported into bzr. (It's still testing before import)
On an unrelated note, I am thrilled to see so many new Ubuntu members on Planet Ubuntu - welcome! New blood is always a good thing!
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Forcing people to do stuff is mean.
Forcing people to be guinea pigs is even more mean.
So can we pleeeeease stop it with the edge. links? My only beef with that it doesn't keep you logged in like normal launchpad does and it displays a big warning on top.
Posted by: Vadim P. | June 07, 2008 at 15:04
My understanding is that if you're not on the beta team then the edge links just take you to the normal url, is that not the case for you?
Posted by: jorge | June 07, 2008 at 15:25
No, it's not - it takes me to the beta page, and it doesn't log me in.
Posted by: Vadim P. | June 07, 2008 at 15:59
Google Gadgets is available for both Qt and Gtk - the PPA seems to have only the Qt version though. Any idea if there's also a Gtk package?
Posted by: ups | June 07, 2008 at 17:17
No... the gtk version is there too.
Posted by: Vadim P. | June 08, 2008 at 17:23
Thanks, Jorge! I spent about an hour yesterday to get the gtk version compiling. Of course, I'm never very confident in my compiling foo, and am greatful to have a repo against which I can update. I will be curious to see how many Ubuntu users pick this up.
Posted by: Pete Goodall | June 11, 2008 at 04:59
Just a point of information: edge has the same login behaviour has regular Launchpad, if you login once it should retain that pretty much indefinitely. However, even if you are already logged in, edge will ask you to login again.
On the other hand you do get some new features...
Posted by: Martin | June 11, 2008 at 07:53
I don't like being a guinea pig.
Anyway does anyone know if gadgets 0.9.3 are coming to the PPA? We're still on 0.9.1, while 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 were released with several important fixes (like gadgets on all desktops, ability to keep them on top, and so on).
Or should I switch the guide to getdeb.net?
Posted by: Vadim P. | June 13, 2008 at 12:52
I also don't like being treated as a guinea pig. And I spent over an hour getting the gtk version compiling. Life sucks...
Posted by: Karim Virani | August 08, 2008 at 14:41