Here is an update on the unity-control-center / unity-settings-daemon migration:
- unity-control-center has been the default for some time now and all major packages have been updated to use it when appropriate. Please make sure to file any bugs against any applications that still try and call gnome-control-center (or don't when they should). If you are using a standard Ubuntu desktop you can uninstall gnome-control-center now. - unity-settings-daemon has been available for a few weeks and has just been switched to the default. You should be able to uninstall gnome-settings-daemon on a standard Ubuntu desktop. Please look out for bugs! - gnome-session has been split into gnome-session (containing the GNOME X session) and ubuntu-session (containing the Unity X session). You should be able to uninstall gnome-session on a standard Ubuntu desktop. IMPORTANT NOTE If you uninstalled ubuntu-desktop at some point then nothing will depend on ubuntu-session at the moment. So make sure you have ubuntu-session installed or install ubuntu-session manually otherwise you might not be able to log into Unity from the greeter. We are going to have unity depend on ubuntu-session temporarily to catch this case but long term this dependency will go away. People upgrading using the GUI will not have this problem as the upgrader always ensures ubuntu-desktop is installed. Thanks for testing --Robert On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Robert Ancell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > 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). > > For these reasons it has been discussed that we should fork > gnome-control-center 3.6 for Unity into unity-control-center [2]. > > To be very clear, this is a fork with a limited lifespan. We don't expect to > make significant changes to it outside of stability and security fixes. > > 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 PPA [4]. > > Please test this PPA and post any problems in the bug report. I'd like to > land this change into the archive if there are no reasons to block it. > > 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. > > Thanks, > --Robert > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings > [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-control-center > [3] > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1257505 > [4] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/unity-control-center -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
