FFe: gnome-control-center 3.26

[Jeremy Bícha]

The Ubuntu Desktop Team wants to ship gnome-control-center 3.26 with Ubuntu 17.10.

This is a major change as the default "shell" has changed. The Network and Displays panel have been rewritten.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/tree/NEWS

Justification for Delay
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We did not push this update before Ubuntu 17.10 Feature Freeze because we didn't want to knowingly introduce regressions. There are 2 patches that need to be rewritten:
- The system-wide network proxy patch
- The Ubuntu Dock settings patch.

All 3 of those big changes landed only about 2 weeks ago or less (new default shell, rewritten Network panel, Ubuntu Dock Settings). There's just a lot going on in the Desktop Team right now!

Other Info
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gnome-control-center 3.25.91 is available for testing in the GNOME3 Staging PPA.

It's possible that there are regressions in the new shell but we'd like to try to find and fix those in time for 18.04 LTS.

[CirclingTheSun (circlingthesun)]

The recent inclusion of gnome 3.25.x packages in Ubuntu 17.10 broke Night Light, display scaling and probably some other settings. Enabling ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging (bumps gnome-control-center from 3.24.3 to 3.25.91) fixed this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

FFe approved. Please try to get the patches updated and this uploaded this week.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.25.92.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.25.92.1-0ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #1712797)
  * debian/control.in:
    - Bump minimum libglib2.0-dev to 2.53
    - Bump minimum libgoa-1.0-dev to 3.25.3
    - Bump minimum gnome-settings-daemon-dev to 3.25.90
  * Rebase ubuntu-gnome-version.patch
  * Refresh ubuntu_external_panels.patch
  * Disable 71_ubuntu_dock_settings.patch:
    - Needs to be adapted to redesigned Displays panel
  * Disable 92_ubuntu_system_proxy.patch:
    - Needs to be adapted to redesigned Network panel
  * Add dist-old-shell.patch:
    Install old shell. Try it out by running gnome-control-center-alt
  * Rebase and re-enable 92_ubuntu_system_proxy.patch
  * TODO: The proxy button crashes when pressed

  [ Didier Roche ]
  * debian/patches/71_ubuntu_dock_settings.patch:
    - separate the dock settings in its own panel (thanks seb128), rewrite
      the backend and adapt the monitor detection to new upstream method.
      This panel is only available in the ubuntu session.
  * Add specific icons for that new panel.
  * Disable 92_ubuntu_system_proxy.patch for now. We may reenable it if
    we are confident users find that setting useful.

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Sep 2017 07:27:38 +0200