Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps
Bug #1688395 reported by
Iain Lane
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libunity-webapps (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
oxide-qt (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Dimitri John Ledkov |
Bug Description
These projects are discontinued, unsupported and should be removed.
I haven't done any analysis of the deps or rdeps to find out if there is more to cull, or if there is some untangling to do.
I know of two tasks other than removing packages -
Unity ships an Amazon launcher in its preset favourites which launches a binary from unity-webapps-
We need to keep providing the Amazon launcher by default (in GNOME Shell) - it should be reimplemented and added to Shell by default.
Changed in libunity-webapps (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → Triaged |
Changed in oxide-qt (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → Triaged |
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in libunity-webapps (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in oxide-qt (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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Moving from bug #1649310
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:02:57PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:20:01PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Notable things not listed:
> > * oxide/webbrowser app, still in use for amazon "app"
>·
> What pulls in the amazon app? I have heard that oxide is definitively not
> on the supported list for 17.10+.
It's /usr/share/ applications/ ubuntu- amazon- default. desktop, so...
application: //ubuntu- amazon- default. desktop is in Unity's favourites
by default
and the chain is
unity- webapps- service -> webapp-container -> webbrowser-app
I heard that we need to keep this, so if it is confirmed that Oxide, the
web browser and the Unity webapps are to be removed, then we will need
to provide this in another way. The desktop team will do that. (An
initial implementation might just be opening a new tab in Firefox.)