Ubuntu Tweak

Some responses of Ubuntu Tweak 0.3.4

July 19th, 2008 | by TualatriX |

Hello, folks.

The first half month after Ubuntu Tweak 0.3.4’s release, how are you now?

You have so many comments here, and I also have somethings to tell you.

So here comes.

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The Spam invade

An interesting thing, after Ubuntu Tweak 0.3.4’s release, there’s so many spam here(it was little before). I think it is attracted by the new features of Ubuntu Tweak. Do you think so?

Of course you can’t see the spam now, because I’ve delete all. But it will come again.

In order to prevent it coming again, I set the “Discussion Settings” to “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”. So your comment may not display at the first time.

Hmm, the Akismet Spam isn’t always useful.

The first donation for Ubuntu Tweak

Oh yes! I received the first donation after the 0.3.4’s release. It was sent by Stoyan Dafov. Thank you very much!

I’m really happy for that, because not only Ubuntu Tweak has so many users, but also many of them like it, they give me the power to make it more better.

About 0.3.4’s security probelm

Thanks of Vadim’s remind. I’ve thought the potential security problem of “Third Party Source” carefully.

Theoretically a people can make a broken package to break the computer,  no matter he is advisedly or not. And I have no way to prevent the thing taking place.(Maybe I can only remove the source)

But the authentication mechanism is really strict to make a package and upload it(in PPA), a virus maker need to create the GPG key and expose his email/name while he make the virus. And the package will be built by Lauchpad first, if it has influence to other package, the build will fail.

So it’s hard to make a broken package(or virus) to break your system.

And the people who use this feature is the advanced users,  they have the experiences to edit the sources or install the third party packages by themselves. The sources I added are tested by myself, I’m not able to guarantee they’ll be safe in the future, but now they are safe. Most of the sources are reliable, they are packaged by MOTU, such as Wine Package.

As you see, many people like this new feature, so that they can use the other source more easily. Another fact is: this feature will never be enabled by default, it’s all depend on users’ choices.

Of course there’s more improvement that I need to do, I need to add the GPG key support, and it should display a warning dialog before users enable a third party source. It will be implemented in the next version.

If you have any other suggestion, I hope to discuss with you.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.3.4 has been downloaded for over 20,000 times so far(Only in the Google Code sites).

I don’t know the exact amount of users, but I know it is increase everytime.

I’ll make it more better, just it!

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