Application list cluttered on a fresh Artful installation

Bug #1711534 reported by Exalm
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gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

GNOME Shell application list contains many rarely-used and sometimes redundant app icons like:

* 3 different icons for fcitx
* 2 icons for OnBoard (OnBoard settings are accessible from OnBoard itself)
* ImageMagick (Most probably rarely used, especially when there's also EOG)
* Language Support, Input Method (There's a language panel in gnome-control-center, so this looks like a unity-control-center leftover)

Because of that, the application list is 3 pages long, making other apps unnecessarily hard to find.

One way to solve that would be to pack rarely-used, but still useful stuff into GNOME's Sundry app folder. Completely redundant icons can probably be just removed.

Original suggestion: https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/03/ubuntu--guadec-2017-and-plans-for-gnome-shell-migration/#comment-3455664382

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Each of your bullet points should probably be a separate bug.

affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
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Exalm (exalm) wrote :

The bullet points aren't really a specific list of bugs, just some examples of what could be done. Just opened this because Didier Roche asked me to.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Ubuntu 17.10 does not include fcitx by default (even on the live ISO) or Onboard or ImageMagick.

Language Support is still included because of LP: #1631750

We haven't discussed the Input Methods app yet, but maybe that's not needed in 18.04…

Changed in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → gnome-menus (Ubuntu)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The Sundry app folder is being removed.

Please file new separate bugs for any remaining issues.

Changed in gnome-menus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

The Sundry app folder is being removed from Ubuntu 19.04.

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