[Bug 31484] Re: xchat launcher doesn't work after upgrade to Dapper

[Jane Silber]

I think there is still a potential upgrade usability issue here, but since I upgraded so long ago, I can no loner tell.  To recap,

- I was running Breezy and had an xchat launcher on the panel

- I did a dist-upgrade to Dapper (quite a while ago, pre-Beta). At that time the xchat launcher quit working because as a default chat application we had switched to xchat-gnome.  There is no mystery as to why it stopped working - it is calling a command xchat (which is no longer there) as opposed to xchat-gnome (even running the command xchat in a terminal fails).  

It may be that the upgrade process is now smoother, and doesn't remove xchat in favour of xchat-gnome (in fact, I think I remember that neither are installed by default now).  

It would be nice if someone who has Breezy installed could try to replicate this (add an xchat launcher, then do a dist-upgrade, see if it still works).  If it doesn't work, there remains a philosophical question about upgrades. That is, if a user has configured their desktop, including the inclusion of launchers for applications which we include in Ubuntu, is it acceptable that those things stop working when they do an upgrade? I think we should strive to minimise the amount of breakage that occurs with an upgrade (or dist-upgrade).

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xchat launcher doesn't work after upgrade to Dapper
https://launchpad.net/bugs/31484