Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 29th July 2024

[vanvugt]

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 22nd July 2024

[vanvugt]

• Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. Backlog stats are here.
• Redesigned secondary GPU measurement to better fit upstream Mutter 47 changes.
• Fixed an introspection warning in Mutter 47.
• Tested upstream GTK’s proposed GL corruption fix for Nvidia-470.
• Revised 48-bit colour tests, proposing an entirely new fix.
• Profiling on Nvidia to track down reported high CPU. And profiling on Nvidia elsewhere to track down reported low FPS.
• Minor changes to the login animation performance fix so it works with GNOME Shell 47.
• Triple buffering:
  • Redesigned damage region tracking.
  • Resolved more code reviews.
  • Got sidetracked by a shader regression in upstream Mutter 47 from the HDR work.

[jbicha]

• Uploaded ptyxis to Debian NEW. Thanks Alex Myczko for doing most of the initial packaging and requesting this for months. I was also fortunate enough to get a quick demo of the app from the developer at GUADEC last week. I think this potentially could be used as the default terminal app for Ubuntu Desktop and Debian GNOME, but there isn’t time to do the necessary integration work in time for Ubuntu 24.10.
• It seems likely that Papers won’t be in GNOME Core for GNOME 47; therefore, I’ve paused work on packaging it as I’m quite busy with other work for the next few weeks
• I completed the GNOME Shell 46 transition for Debian Testing. Unfortunately, this meant that the Budgie desktop had to be removed from Testing as we wait for ftpmasters to finish their NEW review of the magpie library.
   
• Uploaded Nautilus 46 to Debian Testing
• Simon McVittie has uploaded a new build of gtk4 to Debian Experimental. After we verify that it builds on all Debian release archtitectures, we can upload gtk 4.14 to Debian Unstable. This is important because it allows us to then package gtk 4.16 Beta (versioned something like 4.15.4) in Experimental which is a prerequisite for libadwaita 1.6 which is needed by many GNOME 47 apps. GNOME 47 Beta is expected next week.
• Collaborated with Simon to package the new development build of glib for Debian Experimental and Ubuntu 24.10
   
• Almost completed the jpeg-xl 0.10 transition in Ubuntu 24.10 but gcc was switched to gcc-14 as I was preparing the transition. Gianfranco fixed most of the blocking build failures triggered by the gcc default switch.
• Represented Debian at the GNOME Advisory Board meeting at GUADEC. This was my first time at this meeting. I think Debian hasn’t sent a representative in years.