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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.

    1. Re:NIH by rahvin112 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Mod Parent up.

      You shouldn't have posted anonymous because you nailed it with the first post. This NIH syndrome they've developed will ultimately be the end of Canonical. In the long run they can't sustain the independent development on all these separate and diverse features, not unless Shutleworth is going to continue to fund this with millions of his own money in perpetuity.

    2. Re:NIH by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

      This NIH syndrome they've developed will ultimately be the end of Canonical.

      For me, their desire to monetize our searches and undermine our privacy is what is marking the end of Canonical.

      Now I just need to find a suitable replacement, because every time I hear about Canonical these days I like them even less.

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    3. 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.

    4. Re:NIH by umafuckit · · Score: 4, Informative

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

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here Because I didn't know what it meant.

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    5. Re:NIH by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Informative

      Linux Mint, if you want a distribution geared towards the same kind of modernity and ease of use that made Ubuntu so popular to begin with.

      Or Debian, if you want to pick a distribution whose organization is least likely to fuck it up or sell out.

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    6. Re:NIH by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Redhat and Canonical aren't even in the same league. Redhat is managing major projects like KVM. Canonical spends its energies on pointless projects that no one wants. I don't want to lionize Redhat in any way, but if Canonical fell into a hole in the Earth tomorrow, Linux was go merrily along, but if Redhat died, it would have a pretty serious and negative effect on a number of key projects.

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    7. Re:NIH by skids · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Considering packaging is exactly where a distro's development focus should be, I'd say they are working just fine. Also, APT isn't the packaging system, dpkg is.

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    8. Re:NIH by skids · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    9. Re:NIH by Arker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Mint wasn't very intuitive to me... granted I only ran it for a few hours"

      The nipple is the only intuitive interface. All others are learned.

      If people would quit chasing an impossible goal of an intuitive interface and focus on making functional interfaces instead, it would be a huge improvement.

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    10. Re:NIH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Apparently you're not a mother. Proper nipple use is taught. If they're being too rough you don't leave them there. Reenforcement learning from the start. Babies naturally try to put everything in their mouth and we naturally hold babies near our nipples. Things work out, the baby feels better, so things continue to improve.

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

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

  3. Not surprising or newsworthy by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ubuntu is steadily moving away from Gnome and aligning more with Qt. (See: Ubuntu Phone's QML-based UI.) Getting rid of Gnome's system settings is just another small step in that direction.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Re:In (future) related news... by reikae · · Score: 3, Funny

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