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>
The reason this wasn't using the Gio.DBus.makeProxyWrapper() convenience API is that it passes custom flags to the proxy, and that wasn't supported by the wrapper at the time.
As this is now possible, this commit migrates us to the new API.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1572>
Screen magnification is the compositor's business, not that of "random"
unprivileged tools. And for cases where a more specialised behavior is
wanted, an extension likely does a better job than a consumer of the
D-Bus API.
In addition to that, exporting the interface has been broken for an
unknown time, because the object that holds the implementation isn't
referenced and thus ends up being garbage collected, whoops.
And last but not least, this gets rid of the last public D-Bus name
that isn't clearly in the system namespace (org.gnome.Shell,
org.gnome.Mutter, org.gtk).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3452
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1523>
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
Clocks has exactly the same issue as Weather: Its integration currently
relies on accessing its settings directly, which isn't possible when
the app is sandboxed.
Fix this the same way we did for Weather, by adding our own setting
and syncing it with the app via a custom D-Bus interface.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1158
Our current Weather integration depends on poking around the app's
settings, which we cannot do when the app is sandboxed (as its
filesystem is "hidden away" in a container in that case).
So instead, use our own GSettings schema for the settings, and sync
it with GNOME Weather via a custom D-Bus interface.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1158
Here's a template string with '/' that escaped commit 94423151b2,
resulting in an xgettext warning when generating the .pot file.
Simply move it into the resource like the other interface descriptions
to make xgettext happy again.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/407
Add a D-Bus API that allows the API user to introspect the application
state of the shell. Currently the only exposed information is list of
running applications and which one is active (i.e. has focus).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/326
Commit dbf993300a moved all inline D-Bus interface descriptions to template
strings so we can stop escaping line breaks.
Unfortunately that unveiled a grave bug in xgettext, which currently cannot
handle files that contain both backtick and slash characters - as a result,
translations from affected files have started to disappear as translators
run xgettext/msgmerge.
Instead of reverting the change and getting the crusty escaping back, we
will take this as an opportunity to stop inlining the XML altogether and
load it from a resource instead.
To facilitate that, add a small helper method that loads a D-Bus interface
description from a dedicated resource bundle.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/537
