[Bug 1717946] Re: UIFe: Drop xterm and xdiagnose from default install

[amano]

To add to the things above:

Xterm and UXterm have dated icons that stick out in gnome-shell like a
sore thumb. Much more than in the Unity dash.

Xdiagnose shows up in Ubuntu Software. A newbie that tries to remove it
(“I don't get for why it is useful, it looks broken“) will remove the
entire ubuntu-desktop metapackage which is not desireful.

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Title:
  UIFe: Drop xterm and xdiagnose from default install

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impact
  ======
  I'm proposing to drop 3 apps from the default Ubuntu 17.10 install:
  XTerm
  UXTerm
  xdiagnose

  These are visible in the Show Applications view of the Activities
  Overview so this could impact screenshots.

  Justification
  =============
  These were only in the default install because of the FailsafeX feature.
  Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton), maintainer of Ubuntu's X stack and co-maintainer in Debian, has said that feature isn't important any more, considering the transition to Wayland.

  xdiagnose also provided some apport hooks for diagnosing display
  problems but that was moved to xorg itself earlier this release cycle.

  xdiagnose currently doesn't run in the Ubuntu session on Wayland.

  https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/09/18/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t14:18

  Discussed earlier in the cycle:
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-June/004980.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-July/005059.html

  List Notifications
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  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2017-September/020534.html
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2017-September/007403.html

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