As regards the Unity patches, and if they are still useful for Unity somehow, how about including those in Debian?
We had a Unity related delta in ibus, and to get into 'sync mode' I upstreamed it to Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ibus/-/commit/924290db -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1941965 Title: Sync gnome-desktop3 40.4-1 (main) from Debian experimental (main) Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Please sync gnome-desktop3 40.2-2 (main) from Debian experimental (main) Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped: * Merge with debian, remaining changes: - Add 04_compute_average_color.patch: Compute the avergage color in gnome-desktop itself, not in unity to fix some races (LP #963140) - Add tweak_color_computation.patch, Patch from Gord, no patch header, no bug link. - debian/control.in: Build-Depend on language-pack-gnome-he for build tests - debian/rules: + Specify gettext domain for dh_translations. - The language-pack dependency is not needed since the build tests work fine without it. The build generates the locales it needs. - I added the translation domain to Debian since we've added similar overrides in Debian in libgweather and glib2.0 - That leaves 2 patches. Both of the patches take an existing function to determine the "average" color of the desktop wallpaper and tweak it so that it looks at the left side of the wallpaper since that's where the Ubuntu Dock is. The patches are old. As far as I can tell, that function isn't actually used by anything in Ubuntu excluding the remnants of Unity. I checked gnome-shell, mutter, and both our default extensions. I checked codesearch.debian.net. The patches are an interesting idea but it's only helpful where a desktop wallpaper is asymmetrical with different colors on the left side. My opinion is that it's not worth maintaining a Debian diff for an unimportant Unity tweak. (One side note, the gnome-desktop patched code was copied into unity- greeter and its 2 forks, arctica-greeter and slick-greeter. But it's a code copy so it doesn't matter what we do in gnome-desktop.) Changelog entries since current impish version 40.2-1ubuntu1: gnome-desktop3 (40.4-1) experimental; urgency=medium [ Jeremy Bicha ] * New upstream release * debian/rules: Set translation domain for Ubuntu [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ] * debian/control: Use versioned dh-sequence-gnome instead of duplicating -- Jeremy Bicha Sat, 28 Aug 2021 17:13:53 -0400 gnome-desktop3 (40.2-2) experimental; urgency=medium * force usage of gnome-pkg-tools (>= 0.22) to ensure gnome:NextVersion gets generated properly -- Sjoerd Simons Sat, 10 Jul 2021 21:13:45 +0200 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/+bug/1941965/+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
