Hi,
actually the question isn't stupid. Normally I'd say that it's your OS, and you should be able to find a package, but this is something we wrote in the wiki. It have to work (or, at least, there should be a warning if it could not work).
I don't have an Ubuntu VM greater than 12.x here, but I believe that the package is now named "python-gnome2-desktop".
For sure the package named "python-gnomedesktop" is not anymore in Ubuntu. It seems that it was removed (or renamed) in 13.x
Can you try and tell us if installing the package "python-gnome2-desktop" works ? We'll have to update the wiki in case.
Thanks,
T.