Desktop Team Distro Squad Updates – Monday 19th June 2023

vanvugt · June 19, 2023, 9:40am

Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Distro squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse.

Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Distro/GNOME Squad Updates – Monday 12th June 2023

vanvugt · June 19, 2023, 10:04am

Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. Backlog stats are here.
Spent time on two partner projects this week.
Coordinated with the Kivu and Mir teams to start de-duplicating Mesa and VAAPI implementations in snaps. First step is to get Chromium to use gnome-42-2204’s libraries. Second step will be to get the Mesa graphics snap up to the same level before other snaps can switch to it.
Iterated on new designs for the EGLStreams fix.
Triple buffering:
- Backported a fix to 44 for the 44.1 mouse cursor latency regression.
- Fixed a failure to wake from sleep in 44.1.
- Simplifications and squashing on the development branch.
- Work in progress on a crash on resume from sleep in 44.0.
Unexpectedly found a couple of solutions to cursor and GUI stutter which seems to have been introduced way back in GNOME 41. Proposed an upstream fix here.

seb128 · June 23, 2023, 7:18am

Updated policykit-desktop-privileges to provide a .rules in the new polkitd js format
Proposed an unity-greeter javascript based rules to limit the polkit actions
Uploaded the previous change and updated the unity-greeter logo version and the packaging to the current debhelper
Fixed the heif loader not working in lunar
Proposed a fix for the gnome-sdk snap to include again the standard fonts configs, the change was apparently never applied to the core22 serie which created a regression for firefox
Sponsored a gdm fix for an issue that could lead to the user session closing sometime after udev events.
Sponsored the speech-dispatcher SRU (L/K/J) to enable systemd socket activation, needed to work with confined applications like the snap of firefox
Worked on a a simple script to enable new features to test on the desktop early in the Ubuntu dev cycle
emailed ubuntu-devel@ to ask the MIR team to reconsider their requirement to provide a .symbols for c++ library, those are expensive to main and currently not providing the expected benefit.
integrated the autokpkgtests for duktape that Amin and Nathan worked on. The MIR finally got approved and polkit 122 is now in mantic!
Did merges on Debian for desktop packages