[Bio-Linux] A Unity Lens (ie. a better applications menu) for Bio-Linux

[Sasa Paporovic]

The switch to Debian is one possibility, but you can also do on a terminal

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

This deletes the component(unity shopping lens) of the unity desktop that causes the information traffic to amazon and canonical.

BTW: AFAIK Biolinux 7 is based on Ubuntu12.04(Precise). In this version is no unity shopping lens. It was first introduced at the end of the development phase of Ubuntu12.10(Quantal). With this it has never reached Biolinux.

----- Original Message -----
From: Damien Zammit <damien.zammit at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 9:12
Subject: Re: [Bio-Linux] A Unity Lens (ie. a better applications menu) for Bio-Linux
To: Bio-Linux help and discussion <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>

> On 22 December 2012 04:32, Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk> wrote:
> > taken a few days while things are quiet before Christmas and 
> I've made a
> > package that adds a bioinformatics section (or a lens, as they are
> > called) into the main menu panel.  It looks like this:
> 
> Hi there,
> I realise I am just a single user and my opinion doesn't count for
> much in terms of a survey of user opinions.  However, for 
> what it's
> worth, it has come to my attention that Canonical have been collecting
> information about what people search for in the Unity search bar and
> your Ubuntu computer sends this information to Amazon for marketing
> purposes automatically.
> I'm so disappointed by this feature that I made the switch to Debian,
> since the presence of this feature circumvents the freedom of a user
> to their privacy.
> 
> Regards,
> Damien
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