Introducing Ubuntu Answers Lens for Unity

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- Ubuntu Answers Lens for Unity
The Ubuntu Answers Lens is an Unity Lens that allows users to easily and quickly find answers to common questions directly from Unity Dash. Users will be able to right click an answer in order to view detailed information about what they searched for. The Lens uses the automatton.org API for queries, which gathers information from popular websites like Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, etc. To install the Unity Answers Lens plugin in your Ubuntu operating system, open a terminal window (hit the CTRL+ALT+T key combination) and paste the following commands (one by one, hitting Enter after each one): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install unity-lens-answers You will need to restart your session after the installation. This Lens is available only for the Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating systems. Add us on Google+
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Comment #1 by: motsteve on 08 Dec 2012, 10:24 UTC

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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 because it was an LTS. I plan to use it until the next LTS, so when I see a useful addition like the Ubuntu lens which has the limitation that it can only be used in versions of Ubuntu one rev level higher and above, it is confusing to me, especially when it is used to make Ubuntu easier to use. Come on! This is asinine. People have to wait until the next LTS to use this simple feature?

Comment #1.1 by: Wibin on 09 Dec 2012, 11:49 GMT

it is still very much in development so I don't think it would be mature enough for a LTS status in any case.

Whether or not developers support the latest stable release or the latest stable in addition to long term support is up to them. It's most likely a question of limited resources.

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