** Description changed: This is actually a regression in Disco from Artful, Bionic and Cosmic, where this was fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717951 - Since the update to Disco the unprofessional and childish ImageMagick - icon is back. It was removed in Artful, Bionic and Cosmic for the - following reasons, perfectly summed up by Jeremy Bicha (a copy and paste - from Bug #171951): + Since the update to Disco the unprofessional ImageMagick icon is back. + It was removed in Artful, Bionic and Cosmic for the following reasons, + perfectly summed up by Jeremy Bicha (a copy and paste from Bug #171951): + + I tested this in the "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu on Wayland" and "GNOME" session + and it it returned in all three instances. 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.)
** Description changed: This is actually a regression in Disco from Artful, Bionic and Cosmic, where this was fixed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1717951 - Since the update to Disco the unprofessional ImageMagick icon is back. - It was removed in Artful, Bionic and Cosmic for the following reasons, - perfectly summed up by Jeremy Bicha (a copy and paste from Bug #171951): - I tested this in the "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu on Wayland" and "GNOME" session - and it it returned in all three instances. + I tested this in the "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu on Wayland" and "GNOME" session and the bug is visible in all three instances. + + Since the update to Disco the rather unprofessional ImageMagick icon is + back. It was removed in Artful, Bionic and Cosmic for the following + reasons, perfectly summed up by Jeremy Bicha (a copy and paste from Bug + #171951): + 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.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819503 Title: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install [disco regression] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/+bug/1819503/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
