On 16/10/12 15:08, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> One element to think about also is how that would impact the GNOME remix if >> the plan there is not ship the latest GNOME... > Seb, I blame the remix idea on you. ;) Anyway, if the GNOME remix > becomes an official flavor, I was hoping to then ask for permission to > include the GNOME3 PPA due to our unique overlap with the flagship > Ubuntu release. It's still a bit of a handicap as I don't think we > could gain that trust if we included things that regressed Unity. > > If we don't fork ubuntu-control-center and ubuntu-settings-daemon off > from gnome-control-center, then I don't believe it will be possible to > ship GNOME Shell 3.7/3.8 next cycle. The last two cycles we've shipped > the latest GNOME Shell but with bugs due to incomplete g-c-c/g-s-d > support in Ubuntu (for 12.04 it was http://pad.lv/965921 with keyboard > shortcuts not able to be configured from System Settings and for 12.10 > it was 1045914 with a missing keyboard layout status menu). It's a > reasonable guess that for 3.8, the GNOME developers will move > aggressively to kill fallback mode and make optimizations and GNOME > Shell will depend on those newer optimizations. > > A big reason for the GNOME remix is to show that you can contribute to > GNOME from Ubuntu. I worry about what happens when most users are > using a different distro than most developers. Shipping an outdated > GNOME means that we have a much less compelling story to tell these > developers. > > Jeremy > Whatever happens I think its important to maintain compatibility between Unity and Gnome-shell. It would be terrible to end up back where we were at 18months ago where installing gnome-shell (from the ppa) broke everything else.
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