[Reportbug-maint] Bug#863513: Bug#863513: Bug#863513: reportbug: No GUI; only '--ui=text'

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:09 PM, Diego A. Casas Toro
<dacasas at uninorte.edu.co> wrote:
> It means the gtk2 UI is supposed to be the default, and it doesn't make sense
> to create a menu entry for program that doesn’t start how it is supposed to.

do you know of a way to create a menu entry only if the needed
dependencies are installed? They are in Suggests, because *many*
reportbug users prefer the text UI and dont want their systems to be
cluttered by graphical libs.

> To conclude, GTK UI should be default for people using a DE in order to be
> user-friendly (maybe include it in the task-* packages). Or if the gtk2 UI is
> not supposed to be the default, the menu entry should not be created during
> install.

what's probably going to happen is the removal of the GTK UI: it is
unmaintained.

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