Comment 0 for bug 1007494

Metacity window manager in Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04 (Precise) is outdated and still uses gconf, while latest 2 upstream versions (2.34.2 and 2.34.3) already are converted to gsettings. Currently Ubuntu users, who prefer classic gnome (with panel) can't change window button layout and other window manager settings with usual tools, like dconf-editor or gnome-tweak-tool (gnome-tweak-tool was adapted to Metacity/Mutter ported to GSettings since 3.3.4, which is currently in Ubuntu 12.04)

New Metacity version (2.34.3) is already in Debian unstable, please merge and improve live of Ubuntu users, who prefer classic Gnome appearance :)

I'm pasting latest entries of debian/changelog:

metacity (1:2.34.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
   * Upload to unstable.
   * Replace Suggests: gnome-themes with Recommends: gnome-themes-standard
     since Adwaita is the preferred window manager theme and we want it to be
     installed by default.
   * Use strict dependency between metacity/libmetacity-private0a and
     metacity-common to ensure we have the correct version of metacity-common
     providing the org.gnome.metacity gsettings schema.
 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Wed, 30 May 2012 12:33:45 +0200

metacity (1:2.34.3-1) experimental; urgency=low
   * New upstream release.
   * Bump Build-Depends on libgtk2.0-dev to (>= 2.24.0) and libglib2.0-dev to
     (>= 2.25.10).
   * Replace libgconf2-dev Build-Depends with gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev
     (>= 3.3.0).
   * Replace libgnome2-common Depends with gsettings-desktop-schemas
     (>= 3.3.0).
   * Bump Suggests gnome-control-center to (>= 1:3.4.0).
   * Install GSettings schemas and GConf conversion script.
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3.
   * Update Vcs-* URLs.
 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Mon, 14 May 2012 19:09:58 +0200

metacity (1:2.34.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
   [ Josselin Mouette ]
   * Depend on gnome-icon-theme. Closes: #638141.
    [ Michael Biebl ]
   * Use a strict dependency between metacity and libmetacity-private.
   * Due to incompatible changes in libmetacity-private, which broke reverse
     dependencies like compiz, rename the library package to
     libmetacity-private0a. Closes: #629310
   * Add Breaks/Replaces: libmetacity-private0 to libmetacity-private0a.
   * Add a lintian override for the package-name-doesnt-match-sonames warning.
   * debian/watch: Track .xz tarballs.
 -- Michael Biebl <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:31:59 +0200