Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 22nd January 2024

vanvugt · January 22, 2024, 8:37am

Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration 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 Integration Squad Updates – Monday 15th January 2024

vanvugt · January 22, 2024, 8:45am

Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. Backlog stats are here.
Worked with partner engineering to get to the bottom of a multimonitor touchscreen layout bug (private).
Packaged and released BlueZ 5.72 for Noble.
Mutter housekeeping.
Triple buffering: Added a new optimization to avoid excessive latency on Xorg and some non-x86 platforms.
Figured out what’s behind the visible transitions during the boot sequence, relearnt kernel hacking and drafted a kernel patch to avoid unwanted text messages.
Updated the ISO history chart with more old and new data.

jbicha · January 22, 2024, 10:58pm

Packaged the new upstream versions of gtk3 and gtk4 for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. These versions include my update of the emoji chooser data to the latest Unicode 15.1.
Documented details of how emoji updates work in the Ubuntu wiki
Packaged the new version of GNOME Network Displays which is much more useful for streaming video wirelessly to your TV, etc.
Uploaded GNOME’s new webcam app, gnome-snapshot, to the Debian NEW queue. Also uploaded it to the Desktop team testing PPA. Matthias Geiger did most of the packaging work here.
Did the libcamera 0.2 transition in Ubuntu (it’s been done now in Debian too).
Updated the GNOME Initial Setup packaging to 46 Alpha which drops the Online Accounts integration. (You can still set up your Online Accounts in the Settings app.)
Read through Simon McVittie’s update of the gobject-introspection policy. Simon has been doing a lot of work since November to enable gobject-introspection and packages using it to be more safe for multi-arch and crossbuildable.

Other News

The Debian GNOME 46 status tracker is live. Don’t expect GNOME 46 packages to appear until Beta though.