{"id":3171,"date":"2013-12-13T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2013-12-13T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:54:15","slug":"canonical-forks-gnome-control-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Canonical forks Gnome Control Centre*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/10\/ubuntu_logo.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu logo\" width=\"118\" height=\"27\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-419\" \/>Robert Ancell of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonical.com\/\">Canonical<\/a>, the company behind the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> Linux distribution, <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-desktop\/2013-December\/004360.html\">has announced on the Ubuntu desktop mailing list<\/a> that Canonical is forking the Gnome Control Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s email is reproduced in full below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu makes use of a heavily patched gnome-control-center (61 patches) and we will in future move to the new Ubuntu System Settings [1] once we achieve convergence. We are already running an old version of gnome-control-center (3.6) and the value for Ubuntu in upgrading this is low since it would take a lot of work to update our changes. Running an old version until convergence blocks those who do use GNOME (i.e. Ubuntu GNOME).<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons it has been discussed that we should fork gnome-control-center 3.6 for Unity into unity-control-center [2].<\/p>\n<p>To be very clear, this is a fork with a limited lifespan. We don&#8217;t expect to make significant changes to it outside of stability and security fixes.<\/p>\n<p>This change affects a number of packages, and I have attempted to find and fix all the side-effects (See bug 1257505 [3]). The proposed changes are in a <abbr title=\"Personal Package Archive\">PPA<\/abbr> [4].<\/p>\n<p>Please test this PPA and post any problems in the bug report. I&#8217;d like to land this change into the archive if there are no reasons to block it.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a fork of gnome-settings-daemon for the same reasons which I am running successfully, I will do a similar call for testing when we have landed the control center changes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\n&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu-system-settings\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu-system-settings<\/a><br \/>\n[2] <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu-control-center\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu-control-center<\/a><br \/>\n[3] <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/gnome-control-center\/+bug\/1257505\">https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/gnome-control-center\/+bug\/1257505<\/a><br \/>\n[4] <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-desktop\/+archive\/unity-control-center\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-desktop\/+archive\/unity-control-center<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>* = Spelling in title and author&#8217;s text localised to EN-GB!<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Ancell of Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced on the Ubuntu desktop mailing list that Canonical is forking the Gnome Control Centre. Robert&#8217;s email is reproduced in full below. Hi all, Ubuntu makes use of a heavily patched gnome-control-center (61 patches) and we will in future move to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}