Adding packages to ubuntu-desktop packageset

Alessandro Astone alessandro.astone at canonical.com
Wed Jul 30 14:56:14 UTC 2025


Hey there.

As a member of ubuntu-desktop, but not a core-dev, I find it hard to 
actually maintain the desktop because multiple packages are not in the 
packageset. I have gathered a list of packages over the last couple of 
weeks, which I've organized below by category.

Some of these I found to be already part of the desktop-core packageset, 
which however doesn't seem to have any uploaders which makes me wonder 
why it exists.

Please consider the following packages for inclusion in the 
ubuntu-desktop packageset:

=GNOME=
glycin
gnome-kiosk
gnome-shell-extensions
gnome-terminal
loupe
showtime
ptyxis
tecla
libnma
glib2.0
gcr4

=GNOME-related=
gnome-shell-ubuntu-extensions
gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
gpaste
workrave
gnome-shell-pomodoro

=PACKAGE MANAGEMENT=
packagekit
software-properties-gtk
update-manager
update-notifier

=MULTIMEDIA=
gstreamer1.0
gst-plugins-base1.0
gst-plugins-good1.0
gst-plugins-bad1.0
gst-plugins-ugly1.0
gst-libav1.0
gstreamer-vaapi
pulseaudio
pipewire

=MISC=
plymouth
xdg-terminal-exec
xwayland
xdg-desktop-portal
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk





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