Public bug reported:
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):
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.)
** Affects: ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819503
Title:
Drop imagemagick-display from the default install [disco regression]
Status in ubuntu-settings package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
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):
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.)
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