I thought that I'd file a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/gnome-desktop/+bug/899882) against the source of this error...
But, it occurred to me (while writing that bug report) that the correct
solution would be to change sysinfo to behave like this (source code is listed
below):
1) Currently, the Gnome() method assigns
"/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml" to the String variable gnome_about.
It then changes the value of the string in case there exists a
"gnome-version.xml" file in the "/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/" directory.
PROPOSAL:
2) A similar change should be made if there exists a "gnome-version.xml" file
in the "/usr/share/gnome/" directory. (This file comes from the
gnome-desktop3-data package).
Here is the Gnome() method from SystemInfo.cs in the sysinfo package:
//read GNOME version
public void Gnome() {
String temp;
Boolean gnomeB = false;
//Fedora,RedHat,Debian,Ubuntu,...
String gnome_about =
"/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml";
//SuSE
if
(File.Exists("/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml"))
gnome_about =
"/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml";
try {
using (TextReader textread =
File.OpenText(gnome_about)) {
while ( gnomeB == false ) {
temp = textread.ReadLine();
//get version from xml
if (
temp.EndsWith("platform>")) {
temp = temp.Remove(0,
12);
temp =
temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</platform>"), 11);
system_gnomev = temp;
}
if ( temp.EndsWith("minor>")) {
temp = temp.Remove(0,
9);
temp =
temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</minor>"), 8);
system_gnomev =
system_gnomev + "." + temp;
}
if ( temp.EndsWith("micro>")) {
temp = temp.Remove(0,
9);
temp =
temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</micro>"), 8);
system_gnomev =
system_gnomev + "." + temp;
}
//get distributor
if (
temp.EndsWith("distributor>")) {
temp = temp.Remove(0,
15);
temp =
temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</distributor>"), 14);
system_gnomeo = temp;
}
//get build date
if ( temp.EndsWith("date>")) {
temp = temp.Remove(0,
8);
temp =
temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</date>"), 7);
system_gnomeo =
system_gnomeo + " " + temp;
gnomeB = true;
}
}
}
}
catch (FileNotFoundException ex) { Console.WriteLine(
ex ); }
catch (DirectoryNotFoundException ex) {
Console.WriteLine( ex ); }
}
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Sysinfo reports incorrect Gnome version on Ubuntu 11.10
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