indicator-datetime shouldn't recommend big ubuntu-touch-sounds package (maybe Suggests should be used instead)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

indicator-datetime package has big ubuntu-touch-sounds package in Recommends field even in latest Ubuntu Bionic release.

gnome-panel recommends indicator-applet-complete and indicator-applet-complete recommends indicator-datetime, so big and not useful ubuntu-touch-sounds is installed in all desktop systems, where gnome-flashback (gnome-panel) desktop environment is used.

I think ubuntu-touch-sounds should be removed from Recommends field and if there are some cases, where ubuntu-touch-sounds is usefull for indicator-datetime, then Suggests should be used instead.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

No. Touch sound is also used for desktop for ringtones and alarms. Removing touch-sound will end up indicator-datetime spamming syslog specially if it can't detects the type of system (i.e. phone or desktop). Removing touch-sounds requires dropping "phone" support in its code or similar considerable changes.

I can make the ringtones configurable through gsettings and make both phone & desktop use it and then perhaps renaming it to "ubuntu-ringtones/unity-ringtones". It's better than the current situation.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

indicator-datetime is the only package in Ubuntu 18.04 and older that recommends/depends on ubuntu-touch-sounds, no more packages uses ubuntu-touch-sounds, so, please make usage of ubuntu-touch-sounds in indicator-datetime optional for Desktop systems