Comment 7 for bug 1219486

As for mixing g-s-d 3.8 with g-c-c 3.6, apart from a few moved gsettings keys there are no major issues.

A lot of work went into improving a number of the upstream panels (particularly network, power and region panels), and there a number of new panels (notifications, privacy etc). However these changes are more or less contained to g-c-c and don't introduce incompatibilities for g-s-d.

Clearly Ubuntu GNOME really wants g-c-c 3.8 for these improvements. The remaining Unity issues are all mostly trivial, however have basically been blocked waiting on input from the desktop team. As far as I know no one even bothered to look at this, even when I was working on these issues very early in the Saucy cycle.

Nearly all the work I did on g-s-d was to fix Unity Integration. g-c-c was split more evenly between general ubuntu integration and unity integration. Obviously if regressions pop up, I will get them sorted.