home/firefox-index.html uses pre-2010 branding

[Paul Sladen]

Andreas Cimitan noticed that the default browser start page uses the pre-2010 branding. This file is provided by the 'ubuntu-docs' package and may be displayed when using a browser such as Epiphany:

  /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/firefox-index.html

additionally there appear to be a chain of alternatives symlinks to reach this:

  /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html ->
  /etc/alternatives/firefox-homepage ->
  /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/firefox-index.html

This could be simply because it's using the branding from 'help.ubuntu.com'; bug #589057 ("help.ubuntu.com still uses old logo/branding").

[Matthew East (mdke)]

The intention is to remove this material from the ubuntu-docs packages and rely on browsers to provide their own functionality when the user opens a browser and is offline. However, I'm not 100% sure of how removing the update-alternatives needs to be done, and asked for help back in April and May (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-May/033227.html) but haven't had any response. So for now the ubuntu-docs package in oneiric is still not uploaded, pending resolution of that issue.

[Matthew East (mdke)]

We don't use bugs on the Ubuntu Documentation project. Changing to the ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu.