AbiWord on Trisquel mini contains Google Search tool
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I've been using Trisquel mini on a bootable USB, looking through what's included, under 'Office' one can choose AbiWord. Opening that, pressing 'Tools' in the top bar shows 'Google Search' as one of the options listed. Since Trisquel mini, as part of Trisquel, is listed as a libre OS, I'm not sure whether it is appropriate that AbiWord contains 'Google Search' as a tool. If this is not appropriate please let me know so I can try to file a bug report at the right place. Thanks!
Thank you for clarifying this, Magic Banana. Where should I do this? AbiWord uses bugzilla, or gitlab, or somewhere else? Have not filed a bug before.
I thought you wanted to file a bug to the Trisquel project, to ask for the deactivation of the antifeature. If you rather want to convince the AbiWord project to replace Google with another search engine that does not rely on proprietary JavaScript and better promises to respect the user privacy (please be respectful of the developers, even if they refuse), here is the relevant link: https://www.abisource.com/support/bugs/
I'll file a bug with the Trisquel project at the link Ark74 suggested to get fpn removed from the Exceptions in Abrowser, once I have a gitlab account. Maybe someone else will try to convince the AbiWord project to replace Google before I get to it.
To be honest, I wouldn't have thought that I'd ever file a bug. To me, those websites to report and track bugs look like they use language that is strange to me, because I don't understand most of the technicalities. Though I had read on the Trisquel forum without an account, if my installed Trisquel 9 had not disappeared from the boot order I probably would not have gotten an account for this forum as people on the FSF forum suggested to try to get it fixed (it's back in the boot order, but won't boot), and I wouldn't have made bootable USBs for Trisquel 9 and Trisquel mini for an older small device, and then found this bug. Maybe the inconvenience of the still-there-but-not-booting-up Trisquel 9 is good for something after all.
This is indeed something that should be fixed, I'll take a closer look.
Since the issues have been migrated to GitLab, please let's try to make reports land on the right place.
It could be several days/weeks before anyone on the devel team reads the forum posts, on the other hand, the issue tracker at GitLab is reviewed almost daily.
Regards
The issue has been fixed and closed, thank you @Ark74, that was quick! Can someone type 'Fixed:' in front of the title of this thread? I didn't see a way for me to do that.
It's still on the bootable USB. Is there a way to update when I use Trisquel mini 10.0.1 live using a terminal? Or is it better to make a new bootable USB altogether?
What am I to do with the OpenPGP...asc and digital signature files that were sent with the registration of the gitlab account?
Can someone type 'Fixed:' in front of the title of this thread? I didn't see a way for me to do that.
You cannot edit the title or the first post. Idem for posts with a reply (or replies). Moderators can edit anything. Nevertheless, they only do so when what was written was really problematic. As a consequence, somebody reading the thread must look toward the end of it to discover whether it was "fixed".
Is there a way to update when I use Trisquel mini 10.0.1 live using a terminal?
I believe you can execute 'sudo apt update' and 'sudo apt upgrade' BUT every package you would download and install in this way (or in any other way, actually, e.g., through the Synaptic Package Manager) would be stored in RAM (and probably fill it all!) if your live system does not have persistent storage, or in that persistent storage (which is typically small, on a pendrive) if you defined some when creating the live system. In the former case, the upgrade is not persistent: after a reboot, you get the live system you initially created (i.e., without the upgrade).
Instead of 'sudo apt upgrade', you could execute 'sudo apt install [package]' to ask for the installation/upgrade of a specific package. That would take less space than the upgrade of the whole system. It does take some space though. Tens of MB for AbiWord. Hundreds of MB for other packages such as the Web browser.
Or is it better to make a new bootable USB altogether?
If you sometimes (or frequently) use the live system and a new ISO was released, you had better create a new live system from that newer ISO.
Filed both bugs, regarding fpn and AbiWord. On Wikipedia read that on Aug 11 2018 GitLab Inc. moved to G. Cloud Platform, that Framasoft provides a Debian mirror to provide GitLab CE to certain countries. I trust that The Trisquel Project's use of gitlab does not involve G. Cloud Platform.
This bug has been fixed and closed. Thank you!
Can someone reassure me that The Trisquel Project's use of GitLab does not involve G. Cloud Platform? I know one needs to differentiate between GitLab Inc. and gitlab the software. Where bugs are filed and fixed, is G. Cloud Platform involved at all, or anything by G.? Just wondering how things are getting done in order to avoid using things that are not libre.
I am pretty sure the Trisquel project itself hosts gitlab.trisquel.org.
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