Bug#1060465: gnome-control-center: crashes loading System panel if gnome-remote-desktop is missing

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM Arnaud Ferraris <aferraris at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: gnome-control-center
> Version: 1:46~alpha-1
…
>
> On a system without gnome-remote-desktop, trying to access the "System" panel
> (containing the "Users", "Date & Time" panels among other important things)
> results in a crash with the following message:
>
>   GLib-GIO[25147]: ERROR: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.remote-
> desktop.rdp' is not installed
>
> I believe either g-c-c should handle the lack of gnome-remote-desktop more
> gracefully, or the latter should be promoted to Depends instead of Recommends.

Ok, I'll promote gnome-remote-desktop to Depends again.

Josh, I remember you complained about this dependency in
https://bugs.debian.org/1014879

GNOME Remote Desktop is going to be more tightly entwined in GNOME 46
to support the new integrated "headless" mode allowing remote access
even when the user is not already logged into the host computer. It
doesn't feel feasible to me to make this dependency optional because
of the integration in gnome-session, gdm3, gnome-settings-daemon, and
as a separate page in gnome-control-center.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha