Comment 6 for bug 1688395

Oxide can be removed. It's no longer supported.

On Thu, 4 May 2017 at 18:25, Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I believe I heard this from Will Cooke who is on Cc:, so hopefully he
> can clarify.
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> Title:
> Remove Oxide, webbrowser-app and the Unity webapps
>
> Status in libunity-webapps package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in oxide-qt package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> 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-service. That should be removed.
>
> We need to keep providing the Amazon launcher by default (in GNOME
> Shell) - it should be reimplemented and added to Shell by default.
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