GNOME 41.7 released

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Hi,


GNOME 41.7 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for GNOME 41.
All operating systems shipping GNOME 41 are encouraged to upgrade.

If you want to compile GNOME 41.7, you can use the official BuildStream project
snapshot:

https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/41.7/gnome-41.7.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/41/41.7/NEWS

The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/41/41.7/sources/

GNOME 41.7 is designed to be a boring bugfix update for GNOME 41, so it should
be a safe and uneventful upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 41.

Enjoy,

Matthias Clasen

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GNOME 40.4 released

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Hi,

GNOME 40.4 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for GNOME 40.
All operating systems shipping GNOME 40 are encouraged to upgrade.

If you want to compile GNOME 40.4, you can use the official BuildStream
project snapshot:

http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/40.4/gnome-40.4.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.4/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/40/40.4/sources/

GNOME 40.4 is designed to be a boring bugfix update for GNOME 40, so it
should be safe to upgrade from earlier versions of GNOME 40.

Enjoy,

Matthias Clasen
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GNOME 3.38.8 released

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Hi,

GNOME 3.38.8 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for
3.38. All distributions shipping GNOME 3.38 are encouraged to upgrade.

If you want to compile GNOME 3.38.8, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot:

https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.38.8/gnome-3.38.8.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.38/3.38.8/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.38/3.38.8/sources/

GNOME 3.38.8 is designed to be a small and safe update to GNOME 3.38,
the final stable release in the GNOME 3 release series. It is succeeded by
GNOME 40.

Matthias Clasen
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GNOME 40 released

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 40.

This release is the first to follow our new versioning scheme.

It brings new design for the Activities overview and improved support for
input with Compose sequences and keyboard shortcuts, among many other
things.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include a redesigned Weather
application, information popups in Maps, better tabs in Web, and many
more.

More information about the changes in GNOME 40 can be found in the
release notes:

 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/

 https://forty.gnome.org/ 

GNOME 40 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to
try it today, you can use the just-released Fedora 34 beta or the openSUSE
nightly live images which both include GNOME 40.

 https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ 
 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/


We are also providing our own installer images for debugging and testing
features. These images are meant for installation in a vm and require
GNOME Boxes with UEFI support to boot:

 https://os.gnome.org/download/40.0/gnome_os_installer_40.0.iso


If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 40, look for the
GNOME 40 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME
community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world:
developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility
specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators,
companies, artists, testers and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release, GNOME 41, is planned for October 2021, after our yearly
GUADEC conference, which will be online again. Until then, enjoy GNOME 40.

The GNOME Release Team
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Re: Can we enforce beta release for the freeze

[Matthias Clasen via desktop-devel-list]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 3:18 PM Shaun McCance  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just wasted a whole lot of time trying to figure out why I wasn't
> seeing GNOME 40 settings in both Rawhide and Tumbleweed, only to
> discover that gnome-control-center didn't get an upstream 40.beta
> release until a few hours ago today.
>
> This is extremely frustrating. For all practical purposes, that means
> the freeze actually started today, not last week, because we can't do
> post-freeze work on unreleased software.
>
> The freeze is pointless without beta releases, so what can we do to
> enforce that beta releases happen?
>

Help out with the modules that are missing releases.

It is a small group of people doing a lot of hard work. The control center
maintainer,
Georges, is also one of the main forces behind the gnome-shell redesign.

And days only have 24 hours.
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GNOME 3.38.4 released

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Hey all,

GNOME 3.38.4 is now available. This is the fourth bugfix release for
3.38. All distributions shipping GNOME 3.38 are encouraged to upgrade.

If you want to compile GNOME 3.38.4, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot:
https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.38.3/gnome-3.38.4.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/3.38/3.38.4/NEWS

The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/3.38/3.38.4/sources/

Enjoy,

Matthias Clasen
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GNOME 3.38 released

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.38, Orbis.

This release brings a new Welcome tour, improved grouping and reordering
of applications in the overview, better fingerprint enrollment, deeper
systemd integration, and more.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include intelligent tracking
prevention in Web, night mode and adaptive UI in Maps, redesigned
Clocks and Sound Recorder, and more.

For more information about the changes in GNOME 3.38, you can visit
the release notes:

 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/
 https://youtu.be/DZ_P5W9r2JY

GNOME 3.38 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want
to try it today, you can use the Fedora 33 beta that will be available
soon or the openSUSE nightly live images which include GNOME 3.38.

 https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/33/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/?P=GNOME_Next*

This is the first release for which we can provide our own installer
images for debugging and testing features. These images are meant for
installation in a vm and require GNOME Boxes 3.38 (with UEFI support)
to boot:

 https://gnome-build-meta.s3.amazonaws.com/3.38.0/gnome_os_installer.iso

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.38, look for
the GNOME 3.38 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org
repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the
world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system
administrators, companies, artists, testers and last, but not least,
our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release is planned for March 2021. Until then, enjoy GNOME 3.38!

Matthias Clasen
GNOME release  team
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GNOME 3.36.6

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Hello,

GNOME 3.36.6 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for
3.36. All distributions shipping GNOME 3.36 are encouraged to upgrade.

If you want to compile GNOME 3.36.6, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot:
https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.36.6/gnome-3.36.6.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/3.36/3.36.6/NEWS

The source packages are available here:
https://download.gnome.org/core/3.36/3.36.6/sources/

Enjoy the new release,

Matthias Clasen
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Re: GitLab Container Registry scheduled maintenance, Friday May 29, 10 UTC

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On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:46 PM Michael Catanzaro 
wrote:

In GTK, I see the majority of ci runs now fails with:  "The script exceeded
the maximum execution time set for the job"
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Re: How to detect a gtk desktop programmatically

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Hey Tres,

in my opinion, environment variables are about the worst possible option
for this sort of thing.

If you are linking against GTK, the easiest way is to just ask GTK itself
if you need to know
the theme name:

g_object_get (gtk_settings_get_defautt (), "gtk-theme-name", , NULL);

But I am not sure that the theme name is really needed. What information
are you looking for
exactly ? And what decision are you going to make based on it ?
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GNOME 3.36 released

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.36, “Gresik”.

This release brings a new lock screen and a new app for managing shell
extensions, among other things. Once again, the shell has received many
performance improvements.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include better support for metered
networks and parental controls in GNOME Software, a new look for the initial
setup assistant, a redesigned GNOME Clocks, and many more.

More information about the changes in GNOME 3.36 can be found in the
release notes:

 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.36/

GNOME 3.36 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want to
try it today,
you can use the soon-to-be-released Fedora 32 beta or the openSUSE nightly
live
images which will both include GNOME 3.36 very soon.

 https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/
 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.36, look for the
GNOME 3.36 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the www.flathub.org
repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole GNOME
community, made of contributors and friends from all around the world:
developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and accessibility
specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system administrators,
companies, artists, testers and last, but not least, our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release, GNOME 3.38, is planned for October 2020, after our yearly
GUADEC  conference in Zacatecas, Mexico. Until
then, enjoy GNOME 3.36.

The GNOME Release Team
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GNOME 3.34.4

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Hi,

here is another stable GNOME update: GNOME 3.34.4.

This release contains several weeks worth of bug fixes, and should
be a very safe upgrade from 3.34.3.

The GNOME flatpak runtime has been updated as well

There next (and last) stable 3.34 update is planned for end of
March, seehttps://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointThirtyfive

If you want to compile GNOME 3.34.4, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot:

 https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.34.4/gnome-3.34.4.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

 https://download.gnome.org/core/3.34/3.34.4/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

 https://download.gnome.org/core/3.34/3.34.4/sources/

Enjoy the new release,

Matthias Clasen,
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Re: GNOME 3.34 released

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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 13:14 Matthias C

>
>
> If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.34, you can
> use the GNOME 3.34 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the sdk.gnome.org
> repository.
>
>
This was meant to say:

The GNOME 3.34 Flatpak SDK is available on www.flathub.org
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GNOME 3.34 released

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The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 3.34,
Θεσσαλονίκη
(Thessaloniki).

This release brings performance improvements in the shell, Drag-And-Drop in
the overview, improved mouse and keybord accessibility, previews in the
background panel, support for systemd user sessions, and more.

Improvements to core GNOME applications include new icons, sandboxed
browsing
in Web, gapless playback in Music, support for bidirectional text in the
Terminal, more featured applications in Software, and more.

For more information about the changes in GNOME 3.34, you can visit
the release notes:

 https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.34/

GNOME 3.34 will be available shortly in many distributions. If you want
to try it today, you can use the Fedora 31 beta that will be available soon
or the openSUSE nightly live images which include GNOME 3.34.

 https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/

http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/31/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/?P=GNOME_Next*

To try the very latest developments in GNOME, you can also use Fedora
Silverblue, whose rawhide branch always includes the latest GNOME packages.


https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/latest-Fedora-Rawhide/compose/Silverblue/x86_64/iso/

If you are interested in building applications for GNOME 3.34, you can
use the GNOME 3.34 Flatpak SDK, which is available in the sdk.gnome.org
repository.

This six-month effort wouldn't have been possible without the whole
GNOME community, made of contributors and friends from all around the
world: developers, designers, documentation writers, usability and
accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, students, system
administrators, companies, artists, testers and last, but not least,
our users.

GNOME would not exist without all of you. Thank you to everyone!

Our next release, GNOME 3.36, is planned for March 2020. Until then,
enjoy GNOME 3.34!

, the GNOME Release Team
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Re: System-wide dark mode

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On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:58 AM  wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 4:15 AM, Allan Day  wrote:
> > How does this relate to the dark mode in WebKit?
> >
> > I was hoping that Web would follow the system-wide dark mode
> > preference, and expose it to websites...
>
> The ideal, desired behavior is to enable dark mode on any websites that
> opt-in to dark mode, if and only if the user has selected the dark mode
> preference. We can't implement that without design changes in GTK since
> for that we need the ability to *very quickly* switch between different
> themes in the same process, and that's currently too slow.
>

Unlikely to change, tbh. If your theme is loading too slowly, it is too
big...
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Re: I believe we should reconsider our sys-tray removal

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:24 PM  wrote:

>
> >
>
> I am too, but there is more to this.  I'm forced to use topicons or
> some other because when I ask an application to quit, I have found that
> some applications don't really quit but instead are sitting in the
> notification area.  That's kind of sub-optimal.  So even if you like
> the change we are forced to put topicons back invalidating the design
> because not everyone is playing fair.
>

The strategy we went for with the message tray removal was to say:
If you have applications that insist on using status icons in this way,
use the topicons extension.

You make it sound like using topicions is somehow impure or bad.
It isn't.
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Re: Update your libhandy submodules (and packages)

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On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:42 AM Bastien Nocera  wrote:

>
> > We don't really have any formal rules for external dependencies, I
> > think not since the GNOME 2 days.
>
> I'll bear that in mind next time I get a complaint about the required
> version of meson being too new *cough* ;)
>
>
>
I did raise concerns about widespread dependencies on an unstable,
in-progress library.
And I cautioned against adding libhandy to runtimes.
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Re: GNOME Online Accounts 3.34 won't have documents support

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:03 AM Bastien Nocera  wrote:

> On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 14:33 +, Allan Day wrote:
> > Bastien Nocera  wrote:
> > 
> > > Flip it on its head and please suggest why, nowadays, any
> > > application
> > > developer, whether for a GNOME application or a third-party, would
> > > spend time integrating services into gnome-online-accounts, or
> > > using
> > > gnome-online-accounts for functionality that's somewhat core to the
> > > application experience, when the rug can be pulled from under your
> > > app
> > > at any point?
> >
> > That's not what's happening here. Until very recently, Debarshi was
> > the Documents maintainer, and he's obviously been fully involved.
>
> It is what is happening in GNOME Online Accounts in general. Pocket is
> disabled in Fedora 29, and there's a good chance that the mail
> configuration bits will be disabled in Fedora 30.
>
> I don't know whether those changes will also be done upstream, but the
> result will be the same, it won't be possible for applications shipped
> through Flatpak to know that certain configuration options will be
> available in GNOME Online Accounts.
>
>
I believe in the larger picture, this is a logical consequence of taking
the boundary between desktop and apps seriously.
It is just not right to give all 3rd party apps that show up in a flatpak
access to the GNOME api keys and identity.
They need to use their own keys. Offering a centralized service for storing
such keys, as Emmanuele suggests,
might still be useful.
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GNOME 3.31.4 released

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Hi developers, happy new year!

Here is  GNOME 3.31.4, the first development snapshot of 2019. Try it
out, test it, improve it.

If you want to compile GNOME 3.31.4, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot. Thanks to BuildStream's build sandbox, it
should build reliably for you regardless of your host system:

https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.31.4/gnome-3.31.4.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.4/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.4/sources/

WARNING!

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking
purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development
status.

For more information about 3.31, the full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed module lists, please see our 3.31 wiki page:

https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

Matthias
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GNOME 3.31.3 released

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Hi developers,

GNOME 3.31.3 is now available.

This will be our last snapshop before the year is over. Try it out,
test it, improve it.

If you want to compile GNOME 3.31.3, you can use the official
BuildStream project snapshot. Thanks to BuildStream's build sandbox, it
should build reliably for you regardless of your host system:

https://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/3.31.3/gnome-3.31.3.tar.xz

The list of updated modules and changes is available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.3/NEWS

The source packages are available here:

https://download.gnome.org/core/3.31/3.31.3/sources/

WARNING!

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is
buildable and usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking
purposes. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development
status.

For more information about 3.31, the full schedule, the official module
lists and the proposed module lists, please see our 3.29 wiki page:

https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable

Matthias
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Re: Python 2 support in GNOME build tools

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On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:08 AM, Christoph Reiter via desktop-devel-list <
desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Nicolas Dufresne 
> wrote:
> > Stable distribution shouldn't block software from going forward with
> > Python 3. Simply because stable OS won't update to whatever we release
> > next, unless it's bug/security fixes.
>
> I agree in general, but as I noted at the end of my mail, RHEL 7 does get
> non-bugfix/security updates nowadays. And from what I see many of the
> people
> working on those updates also work on GNOME and we should try figuring out
> what they need before potentially making their lives harder.
>
>
Speaking as one of the people involved in RHEL7 GNOME maintenance: we've
never made demands to hold back upstream
progress because it would be more convenient for us. We've worked around
the python3 appearance in the a11y stack and
the more recent meson adoption as well as we could. Its part of what we
paid to do.
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