Monday 1st April 2019

Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team from the last week.

If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of the Community Hub (this site).

We also have our weekly meeting on IRC. We meet on Tuesday at 13:30 UTC in #ubuntu-desktop on Freenode. There will be an “Any Other Business” section at the end where you are welcome to raise topics. These topics might be discussed during the meeting, or afterwards depending on the time, depth of conversation, topic and so on.

Last week’s notes are here: Monday 25th March 2019
Next week’s notes are here: Monday 8th April 2019

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:computer_mouse: Gnome Shell performance (stutter | latency | CPU):

:bug: Gnome Shell other bugs:

:beetle: Release bugs (no progress this week due to the above upstream bugs for disco):

:pick: Backlogs progress:

  • :chart_with_downwards_trend: Good news (falling backlogs): firefox, thunderbird, nautilus, xorg, gdm3, chromium-browser, alsa-driver
  • :chart_with_upwards_trend: Bad news (consistently growing backlogs): ubiquity
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firefox24 firefox

  • prepared and uploaded 66.0.2+build1 update, published to all supported releases by the security team
  • re-enabled unity-menubar.patch in beta branches

thunderbird24 thunderbird

  • 60.6.1+build2 update published by the security team

chromium22 chromium

  • requested a store assertion for the personal-files interface
  • updated beta to 74.0.3729.28, then 74.0.3729.40
  • updating dev to 75.0.3745.4

libreoffice24-margin libreoffice

  • built 6.2.2 snap in candidate channel and found a problem with firebird databases, fixed and promoted to stable

package24 other

  • updated ubuntu-wallpapers with the community wallpapers for disco (bug #1821900), and asked @Laney to sponsor the upload
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Short week (2 days off)

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Shell world

  • Continued mutter Randr branch cleanups and fixes, preparing for upstreaming
  • Prepared packaging for disco, now landed
  • Fixed magnifier when changing resolution / scaling after initialization [MR, merged]
  • Split magnifier fixes MR into !454 and !475 for easier reviewing
  • Cleanup for magnifier activation code checks [MR, under review, got comments]
  • Some upstream reviews and merging

Misc

  • SRU verifications
  • Fixed gnome-appindicator version on GNOME extensions website for who was installing it from it
  • Proposed a change (specified, let’s say) on extensions-web to fix the above issue at server side.

RLS Bugs

  • Prepared fix for 1818790, now committed in shell, will be there in next package release (waiting for .1, if nothing triggers it earlier).
  • All bb-tracking one blocked by waiting 3.28.3+git20190124-0ubuntu18.04.1 to be accepted (which got blocked by budgie issue on new mutter :cry:)
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  • One day back from holidays, mostly catching up with backlog
  • reviewed/sponsored an unity-control-center segfault fix for the new glib
  • looked at firewalld autopkgtest again

Those were from before holidays

  • desktop updates (network-manager, nautilus)
  • cherry picked a nautilus segfault fix from Andrea
  • tested the x11 scaling ppa from Marco, reported/discussed some issue which Marco resolved
  • Canonical HR reviews
  • sponsored the livepatch indicator from Andrea
  • reviewed/sponsored language-selector label alignment fixes
  • Tested older versions of gnome-software handle “blackhole” server reviews.ubuntu.com will be replaced with.
  • Got GNOME Software to show snaps keyed by generated AppStream IDs (e.g. io.snapcraft.moon-buggy-2kkitQurgOkL3foImG4wDwn9CIANuHlt)
  • Fixed installed tests in snapd-glib (disco)
  • Verified snapd-glib 1.47 SRU updates (cosmic, bionic, xenial).
  • Add common ID searching support to snapd-glib.
  • Reviews gnome-control-center branches.
  • 19.04 Beta
  • session lock down
  • investigated bug 1761497
  • Fixed automated desktop tests and image promotion
  • Cleaned up obsolete QA jobs

I’ve only been back one day

  • Catching up, including giving feedback on handling of freeze exceptions
  • Couple of fixes (gnome-characters, gnome-desktop3)
  • Sponsored the community wallpapers from the contest
  • Fixed autopkgtest not queueing new jobs (rabbitmq got sad)
  • :heart_decoration: Proposed fix for “pkexec fails in a non-graphical environment” (Trello Card)
  • :white_check_mark: Proposed fix for “[tracker] SIGSEGV in process_func_start” (Trello Card)
  • :heart_decoration: Proposed fix for “Gedit no longer uses gvfs to store metadata in Linux” (Trello Card)
  • :gear: Removing the use of some deprecated code in tracker-miners
  • :gear: [desktop icons] Align the behaviour of the rename popup with the rename popup in Nautilus
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  • cups-filters: Fixed some minor bugs, test page printed three times on duplex printers (GitHub Issue #101), and Brother printers do not print PostScript level 3 (LP: #1306849, comment #42).
  • GTK print dialog: Working with upstream on the integration of the patch, especially GTK source code policies and also a fix on the patch from upstream (GitLab Merge Request #434).
  • Google Summer of Code 2019: Selecting students and mentors for the suggested projects. In OpenPrinting we will be able to mentor up to 6 students: Printer Applications (make printer drivers snappable), IPP System Service (GUI app replacing admin web interfaces of printers), scp-dbus-service converted to C, …
  • Avahi: Working with Trent on merging the localhost support. He suggests that also CUPS need to get changed.
  • Bugs.

Holiday most of the week

  • snapcraft 3.3 release testing, gave it the green light
  • new hyper-v image which I’ll test today
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