Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center

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."

Comments

NIH

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:NIH

[rahvin112]

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.

Re:NIH

[gstoddart]

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.

Re:NIH

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:NIH

[umafuckit]

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.

Re:NIH

[MightyMartian]

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.

Re:NIH

[skids]

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

Re:NIH

[Arker]

"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.

Re:NIH

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Why?

[lennier1]

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

Not surprising or newsworthy

[MrEricSir]

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.

Re:In (future) related news...

[StripedCow]

# 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