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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm thinking about just making the changes 1-4 and 6 and see what the
feedback is from Alpha 1. In that case, maybe we will do Alpha 1?

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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