Re: Proposal for reducing the number of unremovable apps in GNOME Software

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2017-11-06 at 11:23 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 4:45 PM,  <mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.
> > org> wrote:
> > > > Why is that in the list? I would expect most users to use the
> > various
> > > > PrintScrn shortcuts for taking screenshots, which don't depend
> > on
> > > > gnome-screenshot (anymore).
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe we should drop it from core, then?
> >
> > Well, based on Michael's original definition here, is it an
> > essential
> > app without a popular drop-in replacement that seems to be unable
> > to
> > be properly confined as a Flatpak?
> >
> > Can it be confined by Flatpak?
> >
> > I think that it is an essential app. Users expect to be able to
> > take
> > screenshots and we should not expect users to use keyboard
> > shortcuts
> > instead of regular apps. Personally, I don't recall hearing anyone
> > complain about gnome-screenshot being pre-installed and
> > unremovable.
> >
> > The list seems to be missing several core system utilities:
> > - Archive Manager
>
> I'm not sure this one should be nowadays, we have the common use case
> covered in Nautilus already (except dammed rar5 in some corner cases,
> but I believe rar is not so used anymore).

It's still used plenty, depending on the use of it, which is why I
worked to have CBR files work out of the box in evince.

Determining usage should also consider its past usage. It's unlikely
that users will re-compress all their files using a different
compression algorithm if their original choice becomes unpopular.

> > - Disks
> > - Disk Usage Analyzer
> > - Logs
> > - System Monitor
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy Bicha
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