Desktop Team Updates - Monday 16th May 2022

:new_moon: Opened discussions about installing different apps by default: GNOME Console, GNOME Text Editor, GNOME Sushi
:new_moon: Opened a bug to discuss updating PolicyKit to the new version using JavaScript policy files. Marc from Ubuntu Security responded with a proposed action plan.

22.04 LTS SRUs started

  • Cherry-pick a patch from Arch to fix the Cheese webcam app for some users
  • GTK4 and GTK3 fixes needed for the mutter 42.1 update
  • Disabled language packs for the new GNOME Shell Extension Manager app, allowing its existing translations to be available
  • Prepared the gnome-shell & mutter 42.1 updates

22.10

  • Uploaded gnome-remote-desktop 42.1
    • Fixes the black screen issue seen when trying to start Debian or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in qemu with virtio
    • Seb helped me figure out how to correctly disable the systemd user service from always running
    • Will upload to 22.04 LTS soon but it requires mutter 42.1 for Nvidia
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