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there is still some risk that an out-of-date extension can be enabled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
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
The keybinding to toggle the screen recorder was implemented as a
signal on MetaScreen, as keybindings could only be defined in mutter
core. As this is no longer the case, we can move the binding into the
shell where it belongs.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674377
With the application menu now being more than a stub, it has
become a much more interesting target, so add a keyboard shortcut
to open it directly.
This should also ease some of the pain for focus-follows-mouse users.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672909
Instead of adding every rendered frame into the recording, drop frames
and only buffer and record enough frames to match the target framerate.
Increase the default frame rate from 15 to 30, since now that we're
actually enforcing framerate, it's noticeable that 15fps is not smooth.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669066
The default pipeline was fairly aggressive about quality, and could
be too expensive for some computers. Decrease the quality setting for
the vp8 codec from 10 to 8, and increase the speed setting from 2 to 6.
(Basically, quality affects the visual fidelity of the end result, while
speed affects how much CPU the encoder uses to get a high compression
ratio at that quality level.)
Remove videorate from the pipeline, since the GStreamer VP8 encoder can
handle variable-framerate streams. This means that we won't spend CPU
encoding duplicate frames added by videorate.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669066
The description for enabled-extensions referenced an old and removed key,
"disabled-extensions". Update the description to talk about the DBus methods
that GNOME Shell provides and talk about how the list is now an explicit
whitelist that needs to be there.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663175
1) This is the official GNOME browser. The default favorite apps
are just some random picks, and anyone who wants to
switch can obviously use patches.
2) mozilla.desktop isn't actually even upstream in Firefox, so this
devolves to patches Fedora/Ubuntu carry to make one, meaning
that others have to patch the app list anyways.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650616
We currenty don't have "finding and reminding" so we add gnome-documents
to the default favorites list to improve the document handling user expirence.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657520
The two similar keys were hard to manipulate to have specific effects, so just
remove one. Now there is an *explicit* whitelist: all extensions must be in the
'enabled-extensions' for them to be loaded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654770
If the former is empty (default), only the extensions not contained in
the latter are loaded. Else, all extensions in the former that are
not contained in the latter are loaded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651088
This starts saving lookingGlass history in gsettings, and also adds
the ability to clear the text field by pressing 'down' on the last
entry, like the run dialog and readline allow.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642237
The vp8 codec provides better performance in pretty much all cases compared
to theora while still being free (as in not patent encumbered).
Also add a %T placeholder to the pipeline string which will be replaced
with the a thread count based on the target system.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632595
A key for 12hr/24hr clock format has been added to gsettings-desktop-schemas,
so use that instead of the one from the shell clock schema.
As the setting can be controlled from the Date and Time panel of
gnome-control-center now, drop the temporary preference dialog
as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633200
The new layout does no longer support view switching, so merge
GenericWorkspacesView and SingleView, and remove MosaicView.
Also rename or remove workspace properties and functions which
are now unused.
The grid will have a comeback with the new DND behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634948
Use GSettings for all Shell configuration. GConf is kept to read
configuration from external programs (Metacity, Nautilus and Magnifier),
but ShellGConf is removed because it's mostly useless for the few calls
we still have. Also get rid of unused GConf code in ShellAppSystem.
A basic GConf schema is still used to override Metacity defaults and
configure Magnifier in a system-wide fashion. GConf is also used as
GSettings backend via the GSETTINGS_BACKEND environment variable.
All of this will be removed when these programs have been ported
to GSettings and able to use dconf.
GLib 2.25.9 is required. Schemas are converted to the new XML format,
and compiled at build time in data/ so that the Shell can be run from
the source tree. This also requires setting the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
environment variable both when running installed or from source tree,
in src/gnome-shell.in and src/gnome-shell-clock-preferences.in.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617917
