Notizie dal mondo Canonical. Il team di sviluppo ha deciso di forkare lo GNOME Control Center. In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS troveremo l'Unity Control Center. Ubuntu sta ora utilizzando una versione pesantemente modificata del Control Center di GNOME 3.6, patchato con ben 61 patch. Anche per questo motivo si è deciso di forkare il tutto, in modo da consentire agli sviluppatori di avere il pieno controllo durate il ciclo vitale di Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Eco la mailing list dove è stato comunicato l'annuncio da parte di Robert Acell: 

Hi all,

Ubuntu makes use of a heavily patched gnome-control-center (61 patches) and
we will in future move to the new Ubuntu System Settings [1] once we
achieve convergence. We are already running an old version of
gnome-control-center (3.6) and the value for Ubuntu in upgrading this is
low since it would take a lot of work to update our changes. Running an old
version until convergence blocks those who do use GNOME (i.e. Ubuntu GNOME).

For these reasons it has been discussed that we should fork
gnome-control-center 3.6 for Unity into unity-control-center [2].

To be very clear, this is a fork with a limited lifespan. We don't expect
to make significant changes to it outside of stability and security fixes.

This change affects a number of packages, and I have attempted to find and
fix all the side-effects (See bug 1257505 [3]). The proposed changes are in
a PPA [4].

Please test this PPA and post any problems in the bug report. I'd like to
land this change into the archive if there are no reasons to block it.

I also have a fork of gnome-settings-daemon for the same reasons which I am
running successfully, I will do a similar call for testing when we have
landed the control center changes.

Thanks,
--Robert

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-system-settings
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-control-center
[3]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1257505
[4] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/unity-control-center
 
L'Unity Control Center avrà però vita breve in quanto è intenzione degli sviluppatori utilizzarlo sino a quando non sarà completato lo sviluppo dell'Ubuntu System Settings, un centro di controllo unico per desktop e mobile.