What does gnome-pkgview do?
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gnome-pkgview does two things to help decide what version of GNOME you are
running. Depending on who you ask there are two differing views on this:

1. There _is_ no specific GNOME version.
pkgview displays the versions of desktop components installed via
their pkg-config .pc files. It also gives the prefix (to determine
between multiple versions) and a description.

2. Use gnome-version.xml, dammit!
pkgview displays the desktop version and vendor string as per this
file. You can even replace pixmaps/logo.png with your company's own expensive
focus-group targetted corporate image! I've recently heard that Debian packages
don't always include this file in gnome-desktop. Hassle your local Debian
packager.

Things gnome-pkgview doesn't do:
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- deal with several installed GNOME versions very sensibly.
Firstly, I don't have the resources or time to have more than one version.
Secondly, this tool is really to enable end-users to report
useful information to admins/gurus. Having extra complexity would just be
bad. Hopefully, gnome-pkgview does the right thing with the details of the
version its currently running under.

- tell you what updates are available at ftp.gnome.org
Nice idea. Also worrying feature creep. This isn't red-carpet. Maybe one day
gnome-pkgview will advise people of recent updates to what they're running.

Why the name change from pkgview?
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Debian packager advice - name was too general. Also discovered an ancient RPM
front-end called that.