Record which GNOME panels are owned and which are not
Which panels we own is a question that otherwise gets answered one panel at a time, and forgotten between them. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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but changes daily habit. Phase 5 must precede 6 because 6 needs somewhere safe to
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keep a repository password. Phase 6 is the largest and is staged so each part
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stands alone.
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## Deprecating GNOME Settings
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Not removing it -- making it unnecessary. Tracked here because "which panels do
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we own" is a question that otherwise gets answered one panel at a time.
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**Owned (2026-08-19).** Users and Sharing. Users drives accountsservice, the same
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daemon GNOME's panel drives, so a name or picture set here is what the login and
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lock screens read. Sharing covers remote login and remote desktop, and reports
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file and media sharing as absent rather than offering a switch for software that
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is not installed.
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**Still handed to GNOME.** Printers, Color, Wacom, and Universal Access. Each
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wraps hardware-specific tooling with no D-Bus surface worth reimplementing, and
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each launches with XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME because gnome-control-center refuses
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to run otherwise. Digital Wellbeing is deliberately absent: it configures
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gnome-shell's own screen-time reporting, which does not run here.
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**Open question.** Whether owning Printers is worth it. CUPS has a real API, but
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the panel is mostly driver discovery, and getting that wrong means a printer that
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silently does not print.
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