[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 896512] Re: Sysinfo reports incorrect Gnome version on Ubuntu 11.10

[Chris McIntosh]

I thought that I'd file a bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source
/gnome-desktop/+bug/899882) against the source of this error...

But, it occurred to me (while writing that bug report) that the correct solution would be to change sysinfo to behave like this (source code is listed below):
  1) Currently, the Gnome() method assigns "/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml" to the String variable gnome_about.  It then changes the value of the string in case there exists a "gnome-version.xml" file in the "/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/" directory.

PROPOSAL:
  2) A similar change should be made if there exists a "gnome-version.xml" file in the "/usr/share/gnome/" directory.  (This file comes from the gnome-desktop3-data package).

Here is the Gnome() method from SystemInfo.cs in the sysinfo package:

		//read GNOME version
		public void Gnome() {
			
			String temp;
			Boolean gnomeB = false;
			
			//Fedora,RedHat,Debian,Ubuntu,...
			String gnome_about = "/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml";
			//SuSE
			if (File.Exists("/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml"))
				gnome_about = "/opt/gnome/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml";
			
			try {
				
				using (TextReader textread = File.OpenText(gnome_about)) {
					
					while ( gnomeB == false ) {
						
						temp = textread.ReadLine();
						
						//get version from xml
						if ( temp.EndsWith("platform>")) {

							temp = temp.Remove(0, 12);
							temp = temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</platform>"), 11);
							system_gnomev = temp;
						}
						
						if ( temp.EndsWith("minor>")) {

							temp = temp.Remove(0, 9);
							temp = temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</minor>"), 8);
							system_gnomev = system_gnomev + "." + temp;
						}
						
						if ( temp.EndsWith("micro>")) {

							temp = temp.Remove(0, 9);
							temp = temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</micro>"), 8);
							system_gnomev = system_gnomev + "." + temp;
						}
						
						//get distributor
						if ( temp.EndsWith("distributor>")) {

							temp = temp.Remove(0, 15);
							temp = temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</distributor>"), 14);
							system_gnomeo = temp;
						}
						
						//get build date
						if ( temp.EndsWith("date>")) {

							temp = temp.Remove(0, 8);
							temp = temp.Remove(temp.IndexOf("</date>"), 7);
							system_gnomeo = system_gnomeo + " " + temp;
							
							gnomeB = true;
						}

                                        }

                                }

			}
			catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {  Console.WriteLine( ex );  }
			catch (DirectoryNotFoundException ex) {  Console.WriteLine( ex );  }
		}

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Title:
  Sysinfo reports incorrect Gnome version on Ubuntu 11.10

Status in “sysinfo” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu 11.10, gnome-system-monitor reports the following:
    Ubuntu
      Release 11.10 (Oneiric)
      Kernel Linux 3.0.0-13-generic
      Gnome 3.2.1

  and other information.

  When running Sysinfo on the same machine (in the same session), it reports:
    GNOME: 2.32.1 (Ubuntu 2011-04-14)
    Kernel: 3.0.0-13-generic (#22-Ubuntu SMP...)

  Clearly the Gnome version is incorrectly reported.  I am, indeed,
  using Gnome 3.

  lsb_release -rd reports:
  Description:  Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:  11.10

  Using Sysinfo package (0.7-6)

  Hope this helps to improve an otherwise nice tool.

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