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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."

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  1. NIH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's weird how a project that consists of repackaging everything Debian has developed such a NIH problem.

  2. Re:Ubuntu Linux by game+kid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you've been to the front pages of their website lately you'd notice an almost-complete lack of "Linux" now. I'm not sure how much the real reason for that is "trying not to break some arcane legal or Linux Mark Institute rules", or how much it's "awful covert marketing campaign for yet-unnamed replacement kernel".

    Clearly they don't want to be associated with Linux...or, given their recent demeanor, most anyone.

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