Comment 0 for bug 1257505

Ubuntu/Unity uses GNOME Control Center as the application to configure the Unity session. We've made a lot of changes appropriate for Ubuntu and Unity (61 patches) which makes it hard to maintain and creates a conflict for Ubuntu GNOME to use the control center. Unity 7 will be replaced by Unity 8 in the future which has a new settings interface.

So we can continue to remain on the current version of GNOME Control Center but allow Ubuntu GNOME to continue to update we will create a new project Unity Control Center which is a copy of GNOME Control Center 3.6 but with appropriate renaming so both can be installed.

A number of packages that refer to gnome-control-center need to be updated to refer to unity-control-center (see bug tasks).