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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim and Rico, any comments on these proposals?

Jeremy

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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