The man pages don't change very often, but draw in both docbook and
asciidoc. The latter is particularly problematic, as some distros
still ship only a python2 version of the tool.
Address this by generating the man pages at dist time, and including
the result in the tarball.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1553>
We already use asciidoc for the gnome-extensions man page, while
the main man page is generated from docbook XML. The former is a
much friendlier source format, so use it for both man pages.
Hopefully the plain text format encourages updates, to prevent the
page from getting as badly out of sync again as it is currently.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1553>
I messed up and released 40.alpha at the same time as 3.38.2, when it's
supposed to be in January. In order to re-align with the schedule, change
the upcoming version to 40.alpha2 so we don't have to skip a release and
will be back on track in time of 40.beta.
Move the screencasting into a separate D-Bus service process, using
PipeWire instead of Clutter API. The service is implemented in
Javascript using the dbusService.js helper, and implements the same API
as was done by screencast.js and the corresponding C code.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1372
The Extensions app code is now independent enough from the rest of the code
base to move it to its own subprojects, like we did for the extensions-tool.
This allows for stand-alone builds of the app, which we are about to use
for distributing it as flatpak.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1133
In order to support OpenExtensionPrefs()'s parentWindow parameter,
we will need the ability to make a window transient to an external
window identified by a string handle.
This takes the corresponding code from xdg-desktop-portal-gtk and
brings it into an introspectable form, likewise the counterpart in
libportal to export a string handle for a GtkWindow.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1087
I always forget to keep the extension-tool version number in sync when
doing a new release. Given that it's unlikely that I'll do much better
in the future by myself, make distcheck fail when the versions don't
match.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1076
libnm doesn't only search for plugins in the regular VPN plugin directory,
but also in the legacy location and the directory pointed to by the
NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR environment variable (if set).
We don't monitor the additional directories, so it's possible for our cache
to become outdated.
Instead of trying to play catch-up with libnm's internals, do what nm-applet
does and use the appropriate API to look up the plugin on each request.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2386
There are a couple of D-Bus services that are currently provided by
gnome-shell for which it makes sense to move them fully or partially
into separate processes:
- screen recording (performance)
- FDO notifications (security)
- Extensions (portalization)
Add some base classes and build system glue to take care of the
common boilerplate.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/547
This is what most GNOME modules now use instead of a shell script,
which makes sense given that the build system itself is written
in python.
This particular copy comes from nautilus ...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/920
The gnome-extensions tool code is really independent from the rest of the
code base, and could be used either as part of the gnome-shell build or as
stand-alone project (for example for the extension-ci docker image).
We can actually support both cases by moving the code to a subproject.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/877
Make gjs to compute the GType name for registered GObject-derived
classes using the file basename and the first directory name, so that we
can avoid name clashing, and ensure that no extension will break the
shell by registering a name that is already used (by the shell or by any
other extension).
This requires gjs commit 02568304 [1] that will be part of release 3.35.2,
so bump the required version as gjs does post-release version bumps.
[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/merge_requests/337https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/790
Extensions are uploaded to extensions.gnome.org as zip files that
not only contain the extension sources, but also compiled GSettings
schemas and message catalogues. To make this more convenient, add
a corresponding command for creating an archive suitable for up-
loading.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1234
While we don't actually require a more recent version at build time,
we do need the latest stable version at runtime. There's no strong
reason for making that differentiation, so bump the requirement.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1006
The browser plugin is crashy and broken; there are dozens of bugs filed
against it on Bugzilla and nobody is looking at them. Chrome and Firefox
have both dropped support for NPAPI plugins. Epiphany still has support,
but it's hidden behind a gsetting and all the UI to enable it has been
removed, so very few users would be able to figure out how to enable.
I've even previously considered blacklisting this plugin in the past due
to all the crashes.
Since this plugin has not actually worked in any browsers for a long
time now, time to delete it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766776
While the new per-desktop overrides in GIO are easier to use for
both developers and users, it is still inconvenient for everyone
who changed the defaults using the old overrides hack to lose
their settings. Address this by running a small script on startup
that migrates existing settings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786496
Depending on hardware and recorded volume level, turning up the speakers
to the maximum volume may not be enough and the user will want to amplify
the volume above 100%. Currently this requires opening the sound Settings
panel which gets cumbersome when required repeatedly.
To support this case better, allow raising the sound volume above 100%
directly from the system menu if the feature is enabled via the
`allow-volume-above-100-percent` key in `org.gnome.desktop.sound`.
Add a debug command (to be executed manually via Alt+F2) to check
that all of gnome-shell's file descriptors have the CLOEXEC flag set.
This is important so that internal file descriptors do not get passed
to apps when they are launched.
It prints a warning message for every fd that does not have the flag set.
fdwalk() is used from the standard library if available (it is not
available in glibc), otherwise we use the same implementation as glib
has internally.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/132
When the amount of free memory on the system is somewhat low, gnome-shell
will sometimes fail to launch apps, reporting the error:
fork(): Cannot allocate memory
fork() is failing here because while cloning the process virtual address
space, Linux worries that the thread being forked may end up COWing the
entire address space of the parent process (gnome-shell, which is
memory-hungry), and there is not enough free memory to permit that to
happen. This check is somewhat irrelevant because we are only forking
to immediately exec(), which will discard the whole virtual address
space anyway.
This issue can be avoided by using a new optimized gspawn codepath in
the latest glib development version, which uses posix_spawn() internally.
For the optimized codepath to be used, we must not pass a child_setup
function, so the the file descriptor management is reimplemented here
using new glib API to pass fds to the child process. The old API will
continue to be used on older glib versions.
We must also change the spawn flags for this code path to be hit.
I checked that gnome-shell's open file descriptors are all CLOEXEC
so using G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN should be safe.
This will result in more resilient app launching when memory is low,
since the optimized spawn path avoids cloning the virtual address
space of the parent process (gnome-shell) and avoids the irrelevant
memory overcommit check.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/132
Some systems define it to /usr/lib64 on 64-bit systems, which is not
where systemd looks for unit files. Just hardcode 'lib' in the install
prefix until we get to use the pkg-config file.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/424
So that we can be started by systemd --user, instead of gnome-session.
There are three units:
- gnome-shell.service: Start gnome-shell itself.
- gnome-shell-x11.target, gnome-shell-wayland.target: Sync points for
units that need to care if x11 or wayland is in use.
gnome-settings-daemon will use these, for example.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/138
Remove any usage of MetaScreen, as it has been removed from libmutter
in the API version 3. The corresponding functionality has been moved
into three different places: MetaDisplay, MetaX11Display (for X11
specific functionality) and MetaWorkspaceManager.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759538
Package managers usually take care of compiling GSettings schemas and
updating the .desktop database on installation, but when building
manually from source, we should perform the aforementioned actions
ourselves.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/127
