Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center 208
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."
Not surprising or newsworthy (Score:5, 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.
Re:NIH (Score:5, 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.
Re:NIH (Score:1, Insightful)
I post anonymous because I don't have, nor want, a traceable account.
Re:NIH (Score:1, Insightful)
Debian hasn't developed squat. They just package whatever Red Hat and others sources outside of Debian produce. In fact, their only substantial contribution to Linux is their packaging system, APT.
Re:NIH (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.
Re:NIH (Score:4, 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.
Re:NIH (Score:5, 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.
Canonical Haters = Double Standard (Score:2, Insightful)
Canonical is using something that already exists? How dare they use something someone else made!