This is a *great* feature that it'd be really cool for Ubuntu to have and I'm very pleased that the team has been working on it, but...
I really don't feel very good about this freeze exception request. It doesn't seem right to me to be adding unmerged, experimental and unfinished features into the release - especially so late on. It is going to need iteration either before or after the release and that runs a very high risk of either being disruptive to the release (making updates to the altered packages potentially more difficult if they need to be changed for other reasons), taking up time of the release/SRU teams having to review changes, or (if iterations aren't included in disco) the package in the release being behind the latest developments meaning that it ends up not being as useful to people as it could be — known bugs will be fixed in the development branches but not in disco. A PPA seems like the right place to handle distributing such experimental features to people. Testing things is one thing that PPAs are for, and any publicity that you want to do around this feature could have upgrading via `add-apt-repository` as its first step. Such a PPA could even live under an uploading team like ~ubuntu-desktop to make it seem more official if you wanted. There's no problem with ubuntu/disco-x-fractional branches being created in the packaging repositories, to make handling the PPA easier. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1820850 Title: [FFe] Distro patch GNOME hi-dpi support for x11 sessions Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The first part of our work on better handling of HI-DPI screens got merged upstream in 3.32, but it's for wayland only https://blog.3v1n0.net/informatica/linux/gnome-shell-fractional-scaling-in-wayland-landed/ Since our default session in Ubuntu is based on xorg we would like to distro patch the x11 equivalent for Disco so our users can benefit from the feature. Updates packages are up for testing in that ppa https://launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+archive/ubuntu/mutter-x11-fractional-scaling The main change is https://launchpadlibrarian.net/415722066/mutter_3.32.0-1_3.32.0-1ubuntu1~xrandrscaling3.diff.gz The ppa also includes a bugfix and a settings change to allow easy configuration. Note that the feature is behind an experimental gsettings key and the code has no impact on the rendering for users who don't enable it, which means it shouldn't be too risk. It's available as a opt-in for those who want to test it. From our testing it works fine and we feel like it's ready to be included. We do plan to get that work merged upstream in the next cycle so it should not be an Ubuntu delta to carry over forever. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1820850/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
