software-center uses Ubuntu specific branding rather than respect the current distro name
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: software-center
Software-center is currently branded as "Ubuntu Software Center" in several places. This requires downstream distros to fork the package in order to remove the Ubuntu branding.
Instead, software-center should look to the current distro name in /etc/lsb-release and change the labels appropriately. For an example of a default app that does this properly, look at jockey-gtk.
As far as I know, there is no way to make the gnome-panel menu entry dynamic, so it should simply be labeled "Software Center."
It would also be a good idea to replace the Ubuntu logos with generic ones when a non-Ubuntu distro name is present, though this is not anywhere near as critical as the name of the app itself.
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Thanks, I assign this to mpt so that he can talk about the icons. Making it easy to provide branding is certainly a good idea, one possible way is to use the icon theme for the icons, then you can simply replace them.