Classic confinement request for Ubuntu MATE Welcome and Software Boutique

@jdstrand I think we can open an exception for classic confinement for that sort of application, with the following rationale:

  1. These are image frontend applications, which means they are being shipped in the image itself by the image builders
  2. The particular image (the Linux distribution or flavor) needs to have a visible community behind it that would justify the snap to be publicly available
  3. The snap name, summary, and description need to clearly describe that use case, so people wouldn’t risk installing it without intending to

On that last point, I see a pattern of <distro name>-welcome for this sort of snap on the two requests we got. It sounds like a good one. As a detail, one of those has the “ubuntu-” prefix, while the other doesn’t. Can we agree on doing one or the other consistently?

(cc @bashfulrobot)

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