Call for testing - unity-control-center (fork of gnome-control-center so we can stay on an old version)

[Robert Ancell]

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
<robert.ancell at canonical.com> 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