[Packaging] Unity 2D should be easily installable via USC

I agree. I recently reinstalled 11.04 on my laptop and had to resort to using the terminal to install unity-2d. I don't know why it is listed as 3 packages in the Software Center - Unity-2d Launcher, Unity-2d Places and Unity-2d Spread.

You guys are absolutely right, when searching "Unity" in S-C, the only result related to the 2D version should be the unity-2d meta-package.
Currently the packages listed are: unity-2d-places, unity-2d-panel, unity-2d-launcher.
The other packages related appear when revealing the "technical items".

By default S-C only shows packages categorized as applications.
We either need to make sure that only 'unity-2d' qualifies as such, or we need to find another way to have all the other packages hidden by default.

Marking "In Progress" as Michael has done the necessary modifications in app-install-data, this will require an SRU. Thanks Michael!

Accepted app-install-data-ubuntu into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I installed app-install-data 0.11.04.7.4 from natty-proposed and I can confirm that it fixes the issue. When searching "unity" in S-C, the only two results by default are now "unity" and "unity-2d", as expected.

This bug was fixed in the package app-install-data-ubuntu - 0.11.04.7.4

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app-install-data-ubuntu (0.11.04.7.4) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * menu-data-additional/unity-2d-meta.desktop:
    - add unity-2d meta package (LP: #773399)
  * menu-data/unity-2d-*.desktop:
    - removed, use the meta-package instead (LP: #773399)
  * merged branch:
     lp:~jbicha/app-install-data-ubuntu/cleanup-firefox-extensions
    to clean no longer available xul extensions (LP: #747760)
  * menu-data-additional/icedtea-plugin.desktop:
    - point to icetea-plugin instead of transitional icetea6-plugin
  * menu-data/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop:
    - fix component mismatch
  * menu-data-xul-extensions/mozgest.desktop:
    - remove no longer available extension
  * menu-data/jeex.desktop, menu-data/scribus-ng.desktop:
    - remove duplicated X-AppInstall-* entries (part of the upstream
      desktop file)
  * menu-data/conkeror.desktop:
    - remove no longer available package
  * menu-data/cairo-dock.desktop:
    - install full cairo-dock instead of cairo-dock-core (LP: #714194)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Tue, 03 May 2011 11:55:51 +0200

Copied to oneiric as well.