Desktop Team Updates - Monday 18th July 2022

Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team 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 Updates - Monday 11th July 2022

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  • Chromium snap:
    • Preparing new upstream versions updates for edge, beta and stable channels.
    • Fix missing libva shared library files.
    • Remove vainfo; it reports it’s own Libva version instead of Chromium’s, which caused confusion.
  • Implementing GUI and the corresponding token backend for Ubuntu Pro in
    gnome-initial-setup.
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  • Uploaded the 43 Alpha version of libadwaita to Debian Unstable and Ubuntu 22.10
  • Uploaded gnome-characters 43 Alpha featuring the new Adwaita About Window and support for Emoji Sequences and Modifiers
  • More SRU work intended for Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS including the GNOME Shell 42.3 stack
  • Updated my primary computer to Ubuntu 22.10
  • Ready for the official start of DebConf in Kosovo tomorrow.
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WSL

Ubuntu-release-upgrader

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Desktop Installer

Other

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  • Migrated to Gnome42/Core22:
    • Eye of Gnome
    • Gnome Font Viewer
    • Gnome Logs
    • Glade
    • Gnome Characters
    • Gnome Clocks
    • Simple Scan

Sent a patch to include meson in Gnome42 SDK, Another to fix some warnings during SDK building.

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Short week (one + half day)

Azure Active Directory:

  • Manual tests and polish prototype.
  • Investigate for automated testing of PAM and NSS modules without altering the host.
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  • Merged Nathan’s changes to import existing profiles when starting the thunderbird snap for the first time
  • Requested autoconnect for the thunderbird import interface and got it accepted, now the change is in the beta build
  • Reviewed the new gtk translations import on launchpad
  • desktop SRU verifications
  • Worked on having the installer autostart on the canary image
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Steam Snap

  • Created a branch of the snap based on kisak-core20
  • Added kisak-mesa for more updated Mesa versions in the future
  • Fixed an issue with cloud saving
    • Added data migration for fix
  • Updated the README with more helpful info :slight_smile:
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