Comment 3 for bug 1941965

> How does that work, to generate a locale…

Sorry for being unclear. The locale was needed for a build test only. I believe it was testing LTR and RTL support for the time format (as used in the middle of the top bar in GNOME).

The feature used by Unity is a subtle tweak. If we dropped the patches, Unity would still get the average color used by the desktop wallpaper (since gnome-desktop upstream still includes that function). It just wouldn't be weighted to the average color of the left side of the desktop wallpaper.

Arguably, that tweak could be used in the modern Ubuntu desktop. It just isn't currently and I don't know if it's worth the work to get the tweak working in GNOME.

> how about including those in Debian?

Sometimes, some Debian GNOME members object to Unity/Ubuntu-specific patches being pushed into Debian. Sometimes, we push the patches anyway (because overall, it helps Debian if Ubuntu developers will upload new versions of packages faster).

Off-topic, but there used to be a cool feature that enabled us to easily selectively apply patches on Ubuntu only. Even though I only used it in a few packages, it upset people enough that they got the practice banned in Debian Policy. 😂

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4-5-1

>I upstreamed it to Debian

Thank you! Getting ibus in sync helps a lot!!