GNOME updates from GNOME hackers

1. Welcome!

2. From GLib to GJS

3. GLib updates
∙Canonical is now helping maintaining it
∙Regex are now using PCRE2 with JIT
∙Unicode 15
∙XL and XXL thumbnails
∙Loads of Performance improvements for GObject (de)allocation (thanks Matthias!)
∙Gio attribute removals support (from gio tool too)
∙More async GFile and GAppInfo operations
∙Portal support for snaps
∙More (stable) tests everywhere

4. GLib updates
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Some of the new APIs:
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g_idle_add_once() and g_timeout_add_once() for one-shot sources
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g_ptr_array_new_null_terminated()
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g_atomic_int_exchange[_full]() and g_atomic_pointer_exchange[_full]()
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g_file_new_tmp[_dir]_async() and g_file_make_symbolic_link_async()
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g_list_store_find_with_equal_func_full()
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g_io_error_from_file_error()
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g_app_info_get_default_for_[type|uri_scheme]_async()
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g_clear_fd() and g_autofd()

5. GJS news
∙SpiderMonkey 102 features
∙DBus methods as async promises when using the Async() suffix (Sergio!)
∙Better pretty printers for log() and logError()

6. GTK + Pango

7. Pango
∙Stable releases 1.50.3 - 1.50.12
∙Serialization for easy bug reporting and testing
∙Baseline handling
∙Bug fixes

8. GTK
∙4.6.0 - 4.8.1
∙New sizing, better width-for-height, natural wrap mode
∙Improvements to input method communication with ibus
∙Better OpenType support in the font chooser
∙Columnview scrolling optimizations, GtkInscription, LTR flipping
∙Emoji: CLDR 40 / Unicode 14, more locales
∙No longer translating property names: 1860 strings saved
∙File DND via portals works now

9. What’s coming next cycle
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Pango 1.50.x
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Windows fontmap port to DirectWrite
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GTK 4.10
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The file chooser gets a grid!!
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New picker APIs
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Deprecations: cell renderers, GtkDialog

10. Behind the scenes
∙Things are happening in branches
∙pango2: modernized APIs, standalone line-breaking, easy font creation
∙glyphy: font rendering with a shader and signed distance fields
∙gskpath: path objects
∙HDR, color management
∙section support for list widgets

11. Settings

12. GTK4 + Libadwaita love

13. Device Security panel

14. New User panel design

15. Dark / Light selector

16. Remote connections with RDP

17. New Alert Sounds!
bye bye dog bark!

18. Mutter

19. Recap
∙Hardware accelerated screen sharing via PipeWire
∙Privacy screen support
∙Automatically bypass compositing
∙Color management aware compositor
∙Lower latency input

20. Recap
∙High resolution scroll wheel
∙Calmed the input routing chaos
∙Hold gestures

21. Focus areas
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Modern color management & HDR
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Performance
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Real time kernel mode setting thread
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Explicit buffer readiness
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Avoid GPU and CPU waiting for each other / triple buffering
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Paint nodes all the way
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More culling
∙Input routing & gestures

22. GNOME Shell

23. Screenshots

24. Quick Settings
∙Overhaul of system status menu
∙Move actions to the top level where possible

25. OSK Updates

26. OSK Updates

27. App Grid Navigation
∙Always visible arrow
∙Allow dragging past the last page

28. Future plans
∙Quick Settings follow-ups (probably)
∙Notification grouping (hopefully)
∙GTK3 purge (hopefully)
∙Search overhaul (eventually)

29. Mobile Shell
∙By Jonas Dreßler and Tobias Bernard
∙See video
∙Stick around to try out

30. GNOME in Ubuntu

31. The latest GNOME is here!
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All GNOME apps are now using the GTK4 versions, with our patches
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We updated most of GNOME to latest stable versions:
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https://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions/gnome.html

32. Switch to GTK4
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33. Accent colors

34. The spread is back!

35. Collaboration with Debian

36. Synced with Debian
300+ packages
jointly maintained
in Debian’s Salsa
git repository by
the Debian
GNOME team

37. GNOME 43
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Arrived in Debian and Ubuntu 22.10 weeks before
it arrived in some popular rolling Linux
distributions

38. GNOME Foundation

39. GNOME Foundation
∙GNOME 25 Years anniversary (happybirthdaygnome.org)
∙GUADEC 2022 was a blast! (Mexico)
∙Looking for a new Executive Director
∙GNOME.Asia happening next month! (Malaysia)
∙More regional events! (GNOME Africa, LATAM)
∙FOSDEM: GNOME booth
∙Next GUADEC in 2023, Latvia!
∙Flathub payments
∙Chat moved to Matrix

40. Internship opportunities with
GNOME
Google Summer of Code / Outreachy

41. Q&A

42. Thank You!