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[Iain Lane <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Moving from bug #1649310

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:02:57PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:20:01PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Notable things not listed:
> >  * oxide/webbrowser app, still in use for amazon "app"
>·
> What pulls in the amazon app?  I have heard that oxide is definitively not
> on the supported list for 17.10+.

It's /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop, so...

  application://ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop is in Unity's favourites 
  by default

and the chain is

 unity-webapps-service -> webapp-container -> webbrowser-app

I heard that we need to keep this, so if it is confirmed that Oxide, the
web browser and the Unity webapps are to be removed, then we will need
to provide this in another way. The desktop team will do that. (An
initial implementation might just be opening a new tab in Firefox.)

** Also affects: oxide-qt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: libunity-webapps (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: libunity-webapps (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: oxide-qt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)

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Title:
  Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps

Status in libunity-webapps package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  These projects are discontinued, unsupported and should be removed.

  I haven't done any analysis of the deps or rdeps to find out if there
  is more to cull, or if there is some untangling to do.

  I know of two tasks other than removing packages -

   Unity ships an Amazon launcher in its preset favourites which
  launches a binary from unity-webapps-service. That should be removed.

   We need to keep providing the Amazon launcher by default (in GNOME
  Shell) - it should be reimplemented and added to Shell by default.

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