GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775158
Ability to disable some or all web-plugins from ./configure option
Last modified: 2017-03-05 09:19:44 UTC
Hello, Downstream we are attempting to package shotwell without undesirable services (e.g. Facebook, Picasa) since they violate our distributions privacy standards. If the feature were added that allowed package maintainers to easily remove web-plugins during compile time, it would be extremely helpful. As it is, each release has to be manually patched. Thank you.
Out of curiosity, which distribution is this? Do you want to remove all web sharing then or just individual services?
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. We would like to disable individual services, since Gallery3 and any other self-hosted publishing platform is fine. However disabling all of them, if easier, will solve the problem for us. Thank you.
Individually takes a bit longer since the plugins are currently somewhat interwoven with the main program, but it might be doable. I would think it would be a pity to lose the Piwigo and Gallery3 publishers
Would it be acceptable for you if the plugins would still be build but just not selectable in the sharing dialog?
Created attachment 347204 [details] [review] Make it possible to disable individual publishers Signed-off-by: Jens Georg <mail@jensge.org>
Attachment 347204 [details] pushed as 3d26c34 - Make it possible to disable individual publishers
Minor caveat: You have to recompile from Vala sources to change the set of plugins.