Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 8th April 2024

[jbicha]

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 1st April 2024

[jbicha]

• Miscellaneous work to get things to migrate out of -proposed in time for Beta Freeze
• GNOME Shell 46 finally reached Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (instead of just noble-proposed)
• Packaged a new release of gtkmm-documentation to allow glibmm2.4 to be demoted to universe
• Finished updating the packaged GNOME Shell extensions for GNOME 46
   
• Cherry-picked some fixes for file-roller 44
• Filed a Feature Freeze Exception request for file-roller 44
• Finished my Feature Freeze Exception fore the gnome-software deb packaging split
   
• Cherry-picked a 32-bit build fix for the Railway app
• Cherry-picked a time_t fix for gir-rust-code-generator which was needed to allow the Rust GNOME packages to build
   
• Finished the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rebuilds for the rust-sequoia-cert-store transition and all but one package for the rust-zbus transition
• Prompted the upstream maintainer to get the GNOME Remote Desktop Generate Password feature working on more distros
• Fixed the python-pywebview packaging to avoid dependency error

[vanvugt]

• Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. Backlog stats are here.
• Reviewed and merged more dash-to-dock proposals: #2188, #2185
• Fixed outstanding issues with the missing hardware cursor fix in Mutter 46.
• Redesigned the stylesheets crash fix to avoid a couple of potential bugs.
• An Nvidia lag regression was found in Mutter updates. Proposed two upstream fixes mutter!3684 and mutter!3685, as well as providing the preferred one in a PPA for people who need a quick fix.
• Minor conflict fix in triple buffering for Mutter 46.1.
• Went back and conducted exhaustive retesting of the incomplete screen updates fix after its reliability was questioned. So far it continues to work perfectly.
• Started ignoring flaky Mutter test cases on Mantic, just as we do for Noble and Jammy already. This was also requested by ubuntu-sponsors during the previous SRU.