Nowadays, the user interface has mostly stabilized with most changes
happening under the hood. As a result, extensions written for previous
versions of GNOME Shell are very much expected to keep working on
updates, if it wasn't for the version check that requires a version
bump in the extension metadata. There has been a setting to disable
that check for a while, but it's existence isn't widely known (hence
the common perception that "everything breaks on updates"). While
there is still some risk that an out-of-date extension can be enabled
without error, but fails spectacularly later (where we cannot catch
the exception), it is reasonably small by now when compared to the
~95% of extensions that can be "unbroken", so swap the default value
to disable version checks by default.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770887
Mutter's plugin destroy event doesn't happen if a window is hidden
when it gets unmanaged so we also need to handle the
MetaWindow::unmanaged signal to check whether the parent should
dimmed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752524
meta_window_foreach_transient() iterates through all transients of a
window, not only direct transients. This means that simply checking if
a transient is an attached dialog isn't enough because it might be a
non-direct transient for the window we're checking, in which case we
don't want to dim the window.
In particular this fixes windows not getting undimmed when they have
more that one level of transient children and the direct transient gets
destroyed. In that case we would still find at least one non-direct
transient child and decide to keep the window dimmed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770163
Commit bd6e7f14d1 reimplemented the cycle keybindings to
fix cycling between more than two windows, but the approach
of highlighting cycled windows by actually focusing them has
the drawback that cycling messes up the MRU order of windows.
To fix this, only change the window focus when the operation
finishes, and use a dedicated actor that draws a border around
a window clone for highlighting.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771063
There's no particular reason for this actor to be reactive and thus
preventing input events to reach actors underneath, e.g. quickly
clicking on something while the popup isn't yet finished animating
out.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770382
Mutter may capture the screen in multiple capture regions. If this is
done, take these images and composite them onto one large image, which
is then passed into the gstreamer source.
When clutter gives us multiple captures (multiple cairo_surface_t's),
composite them into one large image and use that as final screenshot
result. This makes screenshooting work when mutter uses multiple views.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770128
intltool is unmaintained nowadays while upstream gettext gained
support for formats like GSettings schemas and .desktop files,
and offers a mechanism to teach it about other XML formats not
yet supported out of the box which we can use for the rest.
So there's nothing stopping us, just make the switch ...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769074
Negative values don't make sense to timestamps, and an unsigned
timestamp as returned by shell_global_get_current_time() or
Gdk/Clutter events may exceed the range of signed integers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769216
Have it notify properly of changes to the current input source, as
well as exposing those in get_groups().
The support for virtual keyboard events has been replaced by
ClutterVirtualInputDevice, which can be thought of as the equivalent
to the XTEST devices in X11.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765009
