Comment 14 for bug 1321750

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Victor Moreno (mmoreno-victor) wrote :

Reuben,

I understand your point of view about simplicity. I always look for that when coding. But you can't ask users to behave like you think it's right. Just trying to make a positive comment here. Please, don't be offended. People will find It much easier to ditch an app than to change the way they behave.

But i think we can find a middle ground. You could make your app have a simple switch, without any GUI, without changing the default behavior. Then, the community can work on an GUI (app indicator and so on). I think it's win-win situation. Simplicity and nobody has to reinvent the wheel.

Info:
For users that want to fallback to version 2.6.2. It can be done by using another ppa.

$ sudo apt-get purge caffeine && sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:behda/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install caffeine

Note: Caffeine from behda/ppa is not working on my Ubuntu 14.04 properly. To make it work i am using the source code.

Still, i Installed Caffeine from behda ppa. This will resolve dependencies and configure/installs icons, shortcuts... Yes, i am lazy.

Get the source file:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/167583984/caffeine_2.6.2.tar.gz

Change executable on /usr/share/applications/caffeine.desktop
Also, change the unity startup executable.