I looked into this today. The .desktop for the preferences dialog in Ubuntu's vino 3.8 has OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; set so the removed preferences dialog really only affects Unity.
If the removed preferences dialog is not a blocker, we are good with merging vino 3.22 with Debian. The only remaining Ubuntu diff is enabling the system miniupnpc patch. That patch was disabled in Debian in 2012 with this message: "Disable 05_use-system-miniupnpc.patch for now, until we have a patch that is ready to be sent upstream and the Debian maintainer of miniupnpc has learned how to maintain a library package." (The patch forces using the system miniupnpc library instead of making it optional which presumably makes it less interesting to upstream.) I started a community topic for this update request at https://community.ubuntu.com/t/update-vino-to-current-version-affects-unity/2537 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vino in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271358 Title: Update to 3.18 (remove controls needed for Unity and other desktops) Status in vino package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Update to 3.16. A big change in this release is to remove the preferences dialog, not sure if this is a problem for us. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino/+bug/1271358/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
