Meson enforces a separate build dir, so we no longer have to care
about build artifects in the source tree. Same applies for all
the generated crap autotools like to spread around.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2642>
We include a private hidden .desktop file for evolution's calendar
component, so that we can explicitly open that component when
evolution is configured as the default calendar application.
That's because the evolution developers didn't want to ship
additional .desktop files at the time, but they have since
then included a desktop action that can be used for the same
purpose.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2479>
Commit d76162c1c0 removed the ability to pass an extension UUID to
the Extensions app, when we moved the dialog to a portal and made
gnome-shell use it instead of spawning the extensions app.
However that missed that many extensions called out to the app to
open their own prefs.
While extensions are encouraged to switch to the new openPrefs()
convenience method added in commit 8030d9ad32, restore the old
behavior with a small script under the old gnome-shell-extension-prefs
name that either calls out to the portal or launches the app.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1220
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
We can autodetect what to do based on the user's session, so drop
the separate desktop files.
This, along with some future changes, will enable us to be bus
activatable.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741666
Performance testing was producing inconsistent values at different
times in the day since the GNOME default background is animated and
sometimes has a single layer, and sometimes two blended layers.
So we have consistent numbers, install a simple animated background
with GNOME Shell that has 40-year long transition ending in 2030,a
and set an environment variable in gnome-shell-perf-tool so that the
background is override with that background. (The background depends
on files installed by gnome-backgrounds; we assume that the person
running performance tests is doing so within the scope of a full
GNOME install.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734610
When selecting "Open Calendar" in the date menu, the configured
application is launched via command line, so we don't get any
startup notification. In order to fix the issue at least for our
default calendar, add a hidden .desktop file for evolution's
calendar component.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677907
Introduce a new gnome-shell-perf-tool, which can be used instead
of the old gnome-shell-jhbuild wrapper to gather data about gnome-shell
performance and submit to shell-perf.gnome.org. This runs the
shell with no extra setup beyond the WM_CLASS filter, so it can
be used for a jhbuild setup or for an installed shell.
A new tool, 'gnome-shell-extension-prefs' can load a new entry point from
extensions, 'prefs.js', which has an entry point to return a GTK+ widget.
This allows extensions to have their own preferences dialog, without each
extension needing to ship its own Python script and .desktop file.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668429
Build gnome-shell as a binary linked against libmutter-wm, instead of
a module to be loaded by libmutter-wm. Move the majority of
initialization-type stuff from gnome_shell_plugin_start() into main().
We still build libgnome-shell as a shared library, so that the linker
doesn't discard all the methods that are never called from C.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641724
The current gnome-shell.in script has a huge amount of
unnecessary complexity for the installed, normal case. Fix
this by adding a configure option (defaulting to false) that
installs a simple, obvious wrapper script around mutter.
We do change the gnome-shell build setup to pass this option
by default for jhbuild.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642084
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
Use the same approach as other generated headers (a temporary file,
compare to the existing, then copy), to avoid touching st.h, so
that other dependent objects are not rebuilt, if not needed.
It should speed up building when switching git branches, as often
config.status or automake are run, causing Makefiles to be recreated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638453
ST makes use of GTK+ for input methods and for icon themes; therefore
we have need to initialize GTK+ in order to test these parts of Clutter.
Instead of LD_PRELOADING our module, use a separately compiled executable
that links to the UI components in GNOME Shell, initializes Clutter and
GTK+ and hooks them together.
Getting all the symbols from St and the GUI components exported for
use via GJS requires a bit of contortion: we need to actually link the
St convenience library into a shared library and link the executable
to that since there is no way with libtool to take a convenience library
and put all its symbols into an executable --whole-archive style.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633657
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
For srcdir != builddir, in the builddir, the st/ subdirectory doesn't
exist, so we can't generate st.h there. Just switch to building st.h
directly in the current directory. (The other option would be to
create a st/ subdirectory in the builddir if necessary; might be a
little cleaner, but this works for now and gets things distchecking.)
