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info-overview: stop displaying GNOME Shell version

Michael Catanzaro requested to merge mcatanzaro/remove-gnome-version into main

Since GNOME 43, this panel displays the GNOME Shell version rather than the GNOME version since we removed the XML file containing GNOME version from gnome-desktop and it is no longer possible to determine which version of GNOME is used. However, the panel still says "GNOME Version" and not "GNOME Shell Version," which leads to incorrect results because the versions are different. For example, GNOME 43.6 contains GNOME Shell 43.5. It is therefore incorrect to display the GNOME Shell version next to the label "GNOME Version."

Furthermore, we do not have consensus to rename this label to "GNOME Shell Version" as this is apparently intended to be an internal codename rather than a user-facing name. See !1481 (closed).

The only remaining reasonable course of action is to just not show the GNOME Shell version anymore. It's a little unfortunate, because it seemed useful to me, but I don't see what else we can do here.

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