Desktop Team Distro Squad Updates – Monday 27th November 2023

[vanvugt]

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 month’s notes are here: Desktop Team Distro Squad Updates – Monday 30th October 2023

[vanvugt]

• Caught up on weeks of bug triage after travel and vacation. Backlog stats are here.
• SRU testing of Surface Laptop 4 keyboard support during early boot.
• Debugging an internal partner project relating to touch screens.
• Proposed a crash fix in mutter debug logging.
• Completed a detailed audit of Wayland-specific Nvidia bugs.
  • Took a detour to investigate reverse PRIME support and prototyped a slow proof of concept which is at least better than the black screen you get today.
• Redesigned multi-GPU-multi-monitor error reporting again.
• Removed misleading logging in mutter 46 since deep colour support landed.
• The EGLStreams fix for legacy Nvidia Wayland support landed in mutter 46.
• Lots of ISO and installer testing. Ubuntu 24.04 noble daily images now work!

[jbicha]

• The GNOME Shell 45.1 update was pushed to Ubuntu 23.10
• Started working with Simon on dropping debian/control.in from the Debian GNOME team .deb packages. The file existed for obsolete reasons and was one extra detail to remember
• Worked with Amin to finish the gedit 46 transition for Ubuntu 24.04
   
• Packaged the GTK4 version of libgnome-games-support and created a libgnome-games-support1 source package for the older GTK3 version
• Confirmed with the Ubuntu MIR team that we will keep librsvg “vendored” for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (librsvg is a Rust library these days.)
   
• Fixed liblc3’s failure to build
• Rebuilds for various transitions
• Other miscellaneous .deb updates

Other News

• gnome-video-trimmer is now in Debian and Ubuntu 24.04. This is the 5th Rust+libadwaita app.