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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim and Rico, what do you think of these changes to our default install?

1. Drop Brasero but keep Nautilus plugin
https://bugs.debian.org/842830

2. Drop xdiagnose
It doesn't work in Wayland at least:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1616742

And I don't think there's currently a way to hide it from showing in Wayland:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/97478

3. Drop seahorse
Mentioned in Michael's blog post [1]
It's a fairly technical app and has not really been updated for the
GNOME3 style.

4. Drop gnome-icon-theme (and -symbolic)
The risk is that an app could crash if it depends on the former
"stock" icons, such as ubiquity before Ubuntu 16.10 [2]. However, I
think GNOME distros other than Debian and its derivatives already
don't install gnome-icon-theme by default. (Fedora definitely does
not.)

5. Rhythmbox and the Music app
We currently ship both gnome-music and rhythmbox but generally we
don't ship more than one of the same kind of app. Rhythmbox still does
quite a bit more than GNOME Music and the Music app's UI is rather
minimal (no obvious way to add music if it's not stored in your
~/Music folder as of 3.22). I hardly listen to music so I'd prefer
someone else deciding this issue.

6. Drop Evolution?
I proposed this years ago [3] and it was kinda controversial then so
we didn't do it. But Michael's blog post has additional arguments.

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/09/21/gnome-3-22-core-apps/
[2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1614848
[3] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/msg00265.html

Thanks,
Jeremy