The module is shared between the various D-Bus services and the
main gnome-shell process, so it was originally left out to allow
porting different bits at their own speed.
Now that everything has been ported to ESM, there is no reason
to not move that particular module as well.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2868>
Now that we track apps instead of instances, we can make the menu
items activatable, because the corresponding action is no longer
app specific (like activating a particular tab): We can simply
activate the app, which hopefully will bring it to the foreground
again.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2790>
The background apps menu currently tracks instances rather than
apps. That matches the behavior of `flatpak ps` and can be useful,
for example when one particular instance runs out of control.
But as we don't include any information that allows to actually
distinguish between instances, multiple instances appear simply
as duplicated app entries.
Given that a menu is too limited for detailed information, stop
representing individual instances, and track apps instead.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6654
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2790>
At least for the time being, the background portal's app monitor
only supports flatpak apps, which are the only apps where we can
reliably match processes to .desktop files and assume that they
belong to graphical apps.
To indicate that there may well be apps that don't appear in the
list despite running in the background, add a clarifying section
title.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6400
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2681>
At least for the time being, the background portal's app monitor
only supports flatpak apps, which are the only apps where we can
reliably match processes to .desktop files and assume that they
belong to graphical apps.
To indicate that there may well be apps that don't appear in the
list despite running in the background, add a clarifying section
title.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/6400
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2660>
Sandboxed apps that run without a window are detected by the new
background monitoring service, introduced by xdg-desktop-portal.
We have an opportunity to improve the predictability of the desktop
and ensure that application state in transparently reported to users
by showing these apps, and allowing them to closed.
Add a new background apps menu to the quick settings, that is always
added at the bottom of the popover, and has a slightly custom, flat
style applied to it.
Show background-running apps in this menu, and allow closing them
by first attempting to execute the 'quit' action through D-Bus, and
if that fails, sending SIGKILL to the process.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/191
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2624>
