This document provides updates on recent developments with GLib, GJS, GTK, Pango, Mutter, GNOME Shell, and GNOME's work on Ubuntu and with the GNOME Foundation. Some key points include GLib adding new asynchronous file and app info APIs, performance improvements to GObject, and Pango adding serialization support. GTK improvements include better sizing, OpenType font support, and grid views coming to the file chooser. Mutter is focusing on areas like color management and reducing latency. GNOME Shell is overhauling quick settings and notifications. The GNOME team is also collaborating closely with Debian and bringing the latest GNOME to Ubuntu users.

1. Welcome!

2. From GLib to GJS

3. GLib updates
∙Canonical is now helping maintaining it
∙Regex are now using PCRE2 with JIT
∙Unicode 15
∙XL and XXL thumbnails
∙Loads of Performance improvements for GObject (de)allocation (thanks Matthias!)
∙Gio attribute removals support (from gio tool too)
∙More async GFile and GAppInfo operations
∙Portal support for snaps
∙More (stable) tests everywhere

4. GLib updates
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Some of the new APIs:
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g_idle_add_once() and g_timeout_add_once() for one-shot sources
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g_ptr_array_new_null_terminated()
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g_atomic_int_exchange[_full]() and g_atomic_pointer_exchange[_full]()
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g_file_new_tmp[_dir]_async() and g_file_make_symbolic_link_async()
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g_list_store_find_with_equal_func_full()
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g_io_error_from_file_error()
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g_app_info_get_default_for_[type|uri_scheme]_async()
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g_clear_fd() and g_autofd()

5. GJS news
∙SpiderMonkey 102 features
∙DBus methods as async promises when using the Async() suffix (Sergio!)
∙Better pretty printers for log() and logError()

6. GTK + Pango

7. Pango
∙Stable releases 1.50.3 - 1.50.12
∙Serialization for easy bug reporting and testing
∙Baseline handling
∙Bug fixes

8. GTK
∙4.6.0 - 4.8.1
∙New sizing, better width-for-height, natural wrap mode
∙Improvements to input method communication with ibus
∙Better OpenType support in the font chooser
∙Columnview scrolling optimizations, GtkInscription, LTR flipping
∙Emoji: CLDR 40 / Unicode 14, more locales
∙No longer translating property names: 1860 strings saved
∙File DND via portals works now

9. What’s coming next cycle
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Pango 1.50.x
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Windows fontmap port to DirectWrite
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GTK 4.10
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The file chooser gets a grid!!
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New picker APIs
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Deprecations: cell renderers, GtkDialog

10. Behind the scenes
∙Things are happening in branches
∙pango2: modernized APIs, standalone line-breaking, easy font creation
∙glyphy: font rendering with a shader and signed distance fields
∙gskpath: path objects
∙HDR, color management
∙section support for list widgets

11. Settings

12. GTK4 + Libadwaita love

13. Device Security panel

14. New User panel design

15. Dark / Light selector

16. Remote connections with RDP

17. New Alert Sounds!
bye bye dog bark!

18. Mutter

19. Recap
∙Hardware accelerated screen sharing via PipeWire
∙Privacy screen support
∙Automatically bypass compositing
∙Color management aware compositor
∙Lower latency input

20. Recap
∙High resolution scroll wheel
∙Calmed the input routing chaos
∙Hold gestures

21. Focus areas
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Modern color management & HDR
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Performance
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Real time kernel mode setting thread
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Explicit buffer readiness
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Avoid GPU and CPU waiting for each other / triple buffering
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Paint nodes all the way
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More culling
∙Input routing & gestures

22. GNOME Shell

23. Screenshots

24. Quick Settings
∙Overhaul of system status menu
∙Move actions to the top level where possible

25. OSK Updates

26. OSK Updates

27. App Grid Navigation
∙Always visible arrow
∙Allow dragging past the last page

28. Future plans
∙Quick Settings follow-ups (probably)
∙Notification grouping (hopefully)
∙GTK3 purge (hopefully)
∙Search overhaul (eventually)

29. Mobile Shell
∙By Jonas Dreßler and Tobias Bernard
∙See video
∙Stick around to try out

30. GNOME in Ubuntu

31. The latest GNOME is here!
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All GNOME apps are now using the GTK4 versions, with our patches
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We updated most of GNOME to latest stable versions:
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https://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions/gnome.html

32. Switch to GTK4
∙

33. Accent colors

34. The spread is back!

35. Collaboration with Debian

36. Synced with Debian
300+ packages
jointly maintained
in Debian’s Salsa
git repository by
the Debian
GNOME team

37. GNOME 43
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Arrived in Debian and Ubuntu 22.10 weeks before
it arrived in some popular rolling Linux
distributions

38. GNOME Foundation

39. GNOME Foundation
∙GNOME 25 Years anniversary (happybirthdaygnome.org)
∙GUADEC 2022 was a blast! (Mexico)
∙Looking for a new Executive Director
∙GNOME.Asia happening next month! (Malaysia)
∙More regional events! (GNOME Africa, LATAM)
∙FOSDEM: GNOME booth
∙Next GUADEC in 2023, Latvia!
∙Flathub payments
∙Chat moved to Matrix

40. Internship opportunities with
GNOME
Google Summer of Code / Outreachy

41. Q&A

42. Thank You!