Public bug reported:

Impact
======
I'm proposing to drop 3 apps from the default Ubuntu 17.10 install:
XTerm
UXTerm
xdiagnose

These are visible in the Show Applications view of the Activities
Overview so this could impact screenshots.

Justification
=============
These were only in the default install because of the FailsafeX feature.
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton), maintainer of Ubuntu's X stack and co-maintainer in 
Debian, has said that feature isn't important any more, considering the 
transition to Wayland.

xdiagnose also provided some apport hooks for diagnosing display
problems but that was moved to xorg itself earlier this release cycle.

xdiagnose currently doesn't run in the Ubuntu session on Wayland.

https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/09/18/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t14:18

Discussed earlier in the cycle:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004980.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-July/005059.html

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** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Impact
  ======
  I'm proposing to drop 3 apps from the default Ubuntu 17.10 install:
  XTerm
  UXTerm
  xdiagnose
  
  These are visible in the Show Applications view of the Activities
  Overview so this could impact screenshots.
  
  Justification
  =============
- These were only in the default install because of the FailsafeX feature. 
- Timo Aaltonen, maintainer of Ubuntu's X stack and co-maintainer in Debian, 
has said that feature isn't important any more, considering the transition to 
Wayland.
+ These were only in the default install because of the FailsafeX feature.
+ Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton), maintainer of Ubuntu's X stack and co-maintainer in 
Debian, has said that feature isn't important any more, considering the 
transition to Wayland.
  
  xdiagnose also provided some apport hooks for diagnosing display
  problems but that was moved to xorg itself earlier this release cycle.
  
  xdiagnose currently doesn't run in the Ubuntu session on Wayland.
  
- https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/09/18/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#14:00
+ https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/09/18/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t14:18
+ 
+ Discussed earlier in the cycle:
+ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004980.html
+ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-July/005059.html
+ 
+ List Notifications
+ ==================

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  UIFe: Drop xterm and xdiagnose from default install

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