Re: GNOME and Ubuntu GNOME

[Tim <darkxst fastmail fm>]

On 27/09/14 12:48, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > Some related advice: stop shipping different versions of GNOME
> software
> > > in the same release. For example, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 includes
> > > gnome-shell 3.10, gnome-settings-daemon 3.8, and
> gnome-control-center
> > > 3.6. None of those are designed to work together: that's why you
> have
> > > control center panels displayed as if they were applications in the
> > > overview, and it's surely causing other bugs as well (I heard that
> > > suspend options were broken?).
Some of the panels in 3.6 were actual separate applications from memory.
> Another: you have the Desktop folder displaying in the Places menu on
> nautilus sidebar; gnome-settings-daemon is supposed to tell GTK+ not to
> show that, but your gnome-settings-daemon is too old.
That is a pretty minor issue, and its certainly not by our choice that gnome-settings-daemon is outdated.