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Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center

Posted by Soulskill on from the if-you-want-something-done-right dept.

jones_supa writes "This announcement comes from the ubuntu-desktop mailing list. Due to GNOME Control Center already being a heavily patched version in Ubuntu, Canonical is planning to found their own fork called Unity Control Center. This would be a fork with a limited lifespan and later on they would move to something called Ubuntu System Settings, an in-house project. For now, a PPA has been set up to test the new fork."

5 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by lennier1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kinda strange, since Canonical and the Gnome guys definitely deserve each other.

  2. Re:NIH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's funny. I'm the guy who posted first, and parent isn't me, but I would have said the same thing.

  3. Re:In (future) related news... by StripedCow · · Score: 5, Funny


    # sudo apt-get upgrade
    Extracting templates from packages: 100%
    Selecting previously unselected packages.
    (Reading database ... 84711 files and directories currently installed.)
    Uninstalling package gnome
    Uninstalling package linux-kernel
    Uninstalling package X-server
    Uninstalling package posix
    Uninstalling package bash
    Uninstalling package ext3
    Installing package shuttleworth-os-almost-finished
    Done
    # /bin/bash: Text file non-existent
    kernel panic

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    If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
  4. Re:NIH by skids · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should have just made up your own words to fit the letters.

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    Someone had to do it.
  5. Re:In (future) related news... by reikae · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do you use sudo when you're already root? :)