This was a big week for the Ubuntu Desktop!
GNOME Shell 42 Beta made it out of -proposed
Wrote an explanation of how Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will handle the GNOME 42 dark style
Made changes in collaboration with GNOME for our dark style handling
Used Didier’s dh_migrations tool to handle migrating dark theme preferences from older Ubuntu releases to 22.04. I believe this is my first time using dh_migrations.
Worked with Marco to finish landing UI details before the UI Freeze deadline
Lots of GNOME 42 updates in Debian and Ubuntu
Got Ubuntu feature freeze approval to switch the GNOME Web (Epiphany) browser to use the new webkitgtk API built with libsoup3
Did the poppler 22.02 transition for Debian
Packaged a git snapshot of the Desktop Icons NG extension
Fixed a vala build issue with our gnome-calculator packaging. Thanks Ashton for reporting.
Changed gedit’s display name from Text Editor to gedit for its pending 42.0 release so that it would have a different display name than the new gnome-text-editor. I don’t think we will be changing the name in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
Received a patch in Debian to enable GNOME Sudoku to show up on mobile devices. Encouraged the submitter to forward to GNOME where it was immediately included in the 42.0 release.
Other News
GNOME 42 will be officially released on Wednesday