[Bug 1717951] Re: UIFe: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install

[amano]

To add to the things mentioned above:

Since “display app“ is confusing and looks dated, people might be
tempted to remove it in gnome-software. Doing so will remove the whole
cups stack and leaves the user without any printing possibly. And the
user has no visual clue that imagemagick was related to printing at all.

Gnome-shell just highlights some crufty icons much more than the Ubuntu
Dash. People will wonder what XTerm and Imagemagick with their icons
straight from the Nineties are. Removing (ugly) Xterm will currently
remove the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. And removing (ugly) Imagemagick
will remove the printing stack.

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Title:
  UIFe: Drop imagemagick-display from the default install

Status in imagemagick package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in imagemagick package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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