Ubuntu developers have decided to drop the desktop ‘To Do’ application from the default install in Ubuntu 22.10.
The tool ships as part of Ubuntu’s default software set and has done since the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release. As default apps go, having a simple task management app users can make actionable lists in it a pretty useful one. Windows and macOS also ‘to do’ apps to their users, as do many Linux distributions, including Linux Mint.
However, development on ‘To Do’ has slowed in recent years, the app was dropped from GNOME’s core apps, and it recently lost its chief developer. A new maintainer is in place who has rebranded the app as ‘Endeavour’, in an effort to distance the app from being part of the stock GNOME experience.
While the lack of new features or a more modern UI aren’t the worst things in the world (it still works as a notes app, after all) recent builds of the app feature some ongoing bugs which affect its overall usefulness.
Thus the argument to pull the app from future Ubuntu installs has been put forward, and the consensus is in favour of dropping it.
Of course, what’s installed by default ≠ what’s installable.
Even if Endeavour (aka To Do) no longer ships amidst Ubuntu’s preinstalled app array it will remain possible to install it the app from the Ubuntu repos using apt install (as well as though other avenues, e.g, Flathub).
Is there a case to be made for Ubuntu including a task manager tool? Or are users better placed to install this sort of software by themselves? Share your take down in the comments section!