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googleearth-package package

googleearth-package should be renamed, it is causing confusion among users without medibuntu enabled

Bug #579724 reported by draoi99 on 2010-05-13

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu China Edition	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	googleearth-package (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

This is a Paper Cut. There is a package called googleearth-package in Multiverse - "This utility makes it possible to build your own personal Debian package of Google Earth". Users who have not enabled Medibuntu assume they have installed Google Earth when they install googleearth-package. This is not the case. I have seen at least two users asking on the Beginners Forum why they cannot find Google Earth in their applications menu.

It would help to rename googleearth-package to something like gepackager, to avoid confusion.

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-05-13:

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

- The bug is regarding a package in the multiverse , hence not papaercut
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Invalid
affects:	hundredpapercuts → cnubuntu
Changed in googleearth-package (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2010-12-12:

draoi99, thanks for this report.

I actually think the package name is fine, but the result is not. I'd like to see this produce a .desktop file in the same place as the resultant googleearth package, and have that run a wrapper that checks for an installed googleearth and builds the package if it is not installed yet. It would need to give the user feedback that it is doing that, but this would be relatively simple with dialog.

I believe this is related to the Debian bug here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439155