You have been subscribed to a public bug: Impact ====== I'm proposing to drop the ImageMagick app from the default Ubuntu 17.10.
It is visible in the Show Applications view of the Activities Overview so this could impact screenshots. Justification ============= imagemagick is a collection of commandline utilities for working with images, photos, etc. It is a required dependency for many things and will still be installed by default. Bundled with imagemagick is the "display" app, which is an app with an unusual, difficult-to-use UI. It was not intentionally included in the default Ubuntu install but was only there because it was packaged together. I am proposing splitting the display app to a separate binary package so that it is available for install for the few who do want to use the app. I tried proposing this to Debian. See comment #60 on the attached Debian bug but the Debian maintainer doesn't seem interested in accepting my proposal any time soon. (I emailed him directly a few months ago too.) List Notifications ================== https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2017-September/020534.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2017-September/007403.html Other Info ========== I will be attaching a patch for review by the Desktop Team here soon. ** Affects: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Committed ** Affects: imagemagick (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: New -- UIFe: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717951 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-settings in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
