Public bug reported:
Replacing cheese by gnome-snapshot is on the desktop plans for this
cycle but has been taking longer than expected (rust packaging
complication + MIR delays). We got a +1 MIR review on the MIR bug
#2052652 now and security team said they should have their review also
done by the end of the week.
The rational for the change is that cheese has been in low maintenance
mode for years and is quite buggy. GNOME switched their default camera
application in GNOME 45 (a cycle ago).
It's also an oem team request since 22.04 to 'fix or replace" cheese
since it has flaws which are problematic for hardware enablement. The
fact that there was no action on fixing those problems since 22.04 is
confirming that the project isn't really active anymore.
gnome-shapshot is also using the current gtk4 version (which will make
it more consistent with the other desktop applications, cheese is still
using gtk3) and libcamera which is making it compatible with newer
mipi/ipu6 cameras.
The regression potential is limited since that's a standalone
application mostly used to test the camera and do selfies and video
recordings.
** Affects: gnome-snapshot (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2058454
Title:
[FFe] Replace cheese by gnome-snapshot in the desktop image
Status in gnome-snapshot package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Replacing cheese by gnome-snapshot is on the desktop plans for this
cycle but has been taking longer than expected (rust packaging
complication + MIR delays). We got a +1 MIR review on the MIR bug
#2052652 now and security team said they should have their review also
done by the end of the week.
The rational for the change is that cheese has been in low maintenance
mode for years and is quite buggy. GNOME switched their default camera
application in GNOME 45 (a cycle ago).
It's also an oem team request since 22.04 to 'fix or replace" cheese
since it has flaws which are problematic for hardware enablement. The
fact that there was no action on fixing those problems since 22.04 is
confirming that the project isn't really active anymore.
gnome-shapshot is also using the current gtk4 version (which will make
it more consistent with the other desktop applications, cheese is
still using gtk3) and libcamera which is making it compatible with
newer mipi/ipu6 cameras.
The regression potential is limited since that's a standalone
application mostly used to test the camera and do selfies and video
recordings.
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