14:30 <seb128> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting - 2018-01-30
14:30 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Jan 30 14:30:25 2018 UTC.  The chair is seb128. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.
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14:30 <seb128> Roll call: andyrock, dgadomski, didrocks, duflu (out), jbicha, jamesh (out), jibel/heber, kenvandine, laney, oSoMoN, seb128, tkamppeter, trevinho (out), robert_ancell (out)
14:30 <andyrock> o/
14:30 <oSoMoN> \o
14:31 <jibel> hi
14:31 <didrocks> hey
14:31 <willcooke> o/
14:31 <kenvandine> o/
14:31 <heber> o/
14:31 <Laney> nod
14:31 <seb128> ok, looks like we have already everybody, let's get started
14:31 <seb128> #topic andyrock
14:32 <seb128> andyrock, hey
14:32 <andyrock> 1. MP to enable gir for goa-backends: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=367371&action=diff
14:32 <andyrock> 2. MP to fix crash in snapd_login_async: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd-glib/pull/31
14:32 <andyrock> 3. WIP: adding a UbuntuSSO provider in gnome-online-accounts
14:32 <andyrock> 4. Spent some time considering what needs to be done in order to discharge macaroons in C
14:32 <andyrock> 5. Review specification for SSO
14:32 <andyrock> 6. eow
14:33 <seb128> andyrock, thanks, good work keeping on top of the livepatch work and the new challenges on the way
14:33 <seb128> #topic dgadomski
14:33 <seb128> dgadomski, hey
14:33 <dgadomski> hey
14:33 <dgadomski> *fixed bug #1644662
14:33 <dgadomski> back to working on bug #1743422
14:33 <dgadomski> looking into a new potential issue related to SMB2 support on 4.13 kernel
14:33 <ubot5> bug 1644662 in unity-control-center (Ubuntu Xenial) "Icons missing when appearance setting is "high contrast"" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1644662
14:33 <ubot5> bug 1743422 in unity (Ubuntu) "The launcher reveal doesn't always work when moving the pointer to the defined hot spot" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1743422
14:33 <dgadomski> eof
14:34 <seb128> thanks dgadomski
14:34 <seb128> #topic didrocks
14:34 <seb128> didrocks, hey
14:34 <didrocks> * Wrote and published blog post about desktop icons and GNOME: https://didrocks.fr/2018/01/23/welcome-to-the-ubuntu-bionic-age-nautilus-a-lts-and-desktop-icons/.
14:34 <didrocks> * Publish Canonical Unity8 design docs and help give feedbacks to the communitheme effort.
14:34 <didrocks> * Fixed session-migration security issue on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1735929
14:34 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1735929 in gnome-session (Ubuntu) "security problems with incorrect permissions for ubuntu 17.10" [High,Triaged]
14:34 <didrocks> * Change g-s-d and gnome-shell code for adapating to the volume over 100% new icon name (one less thing lacking!) :)
14:34 <didrocks> * Session mode extension: rebase on latest master, separate part that are accepted upstream and do another patch upstreamabale for second part + a backup patch for us in case the second isn't accepted (little bit more hackish to minimize the diff impact).
14:34 <didrocks> * Rebase our 3 GNOME Shell patches and push them to gitlab now that GNOME Shell migrated to it. Also, rediscuss current state of our patches with upstream.
14:34 <didrocks> * Debug a local gdm not starting issue
14:34 <didrocks> * [MIR] fonts-noto-color-emoji & various AA work
14:34 <didrocks> .
14:35 <seb128> thanks didrocks, busy week as usual :)
14:35 <didrocks> ;)
14:35 <seb128> #topic duflu
14:35 <seb128> * PulseAudio update 1:11.1-1ubuntu4
14:35 <seb128> - Still stuck in proposed due to a buggy test in unrelated package gsequencer. It appears this will be unblocked by the newly proposed version of gsequencer being promoted, leaving no buggy version of gsequencer in the same series as the pulseaudio update.
14:35 <seb128> * Gnome Shell performance work:
14:35 <seb128> - CPU issues: Fixes still being discussed upstream(s) (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1743976)
14:35 <seb128> - Stuttering and lack of smoothness: Finally identified multiple different causes for this so we have a checklist: https://trello.com/c/Q6JYXPPs
14:36 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1743976 in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu) "gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting unchanging panels" [Medium,In progress]
14:36 <seb128> - Now working through the checklist, starting with the multi-monitor problem. Because multi-monitor frame sync was my domain in Mir, I know how to fix it in Mutter.
14:36 <seb128> * Totem:
14:36 <seb128> - Finally released with headerbar patches removed. Now we ship with the upstream look and feel. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1502476)
14:36 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1502476 in totem (Ubuntu) "Totem menu bar is displayed in fullscreen mode (during gnome-flashback session or when Top Bar > Application Menu is disabled)" [Medium,Fix released]
14:36 <seb128> * Unresponsive touchpads (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1696929)
14:36 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1696929 in libinput (Ubuntu Bionic) "Touchpads are unresponsive and laggy for small finger movements" [High,Fix released]
14:36 <seb128> - Finally, fix released to bionic in libinput 1.9.4-2ubuntu1.
14:36 <seb128> * Daily bug management across gnome-shell, mutter, gdm3, ubuntu-themes, bluez, pulseaudio, dkms, mir, wayland, totem, mpv, libinput.
14:36 <seb128> * HELP: Fixes still awaiting sponsorship:
14:36 <seb128> - https://code.launchpad.net/~vanvugt/gtk/fix-1698270/+merge/331846
14:36 <seb128> #topic jbicha
14:36 <seb128> jbicha, hey
14:37 <jbicha> • Released GNOME Tweaks 3.27.4. Moved to gitlab.gnome.org and renamed source package. Blogged about the new version.
14:37 <jbicha> • ubuntu-meta upload. Adds GNOME To Do & Noto color emoji font. Replaces gucharmap with GNOME Characters.
14:37 <jbicha> • Dropped all known downstream Unity headerbar patches (6 pkgs this week) after lengthy discussion on Community Hub. LP: #1719322
14:37 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1719322 in gnome-calculator (Ubuntu) "Remove patch to remove headerbar" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1719322
14:37 <jbicha> • More packaging syncing with Debian GNOME. In particular, Deja Dup this week.
14:37 <jbicha> • Informed Unity team about LP: #1744619. Too early for feedback yet.
14:37 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1744619 in unity-control-center (Ubuntu) "Transitioning GNOME away from libnm-glib" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1744619
14:37 <jbicha> • Reviewed some patches for gedit upstream
14:37 <jbicha> 🏈
14:37 <seb128> thanks jbicha
14:38 <seb128> no report from jamesh but he's at the snapcraft summit this week
14:39 <seb128> #topic  jibel/heber
14:39 <seb128> jibel, heber, hey
14:39 <jibel> hey
14:39 <jibel> - SRU of gnome-software 3.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.8. It allows a user to install classic snaps from gnome-software (bug 1690280)
14:39 <jibel> - SRU of ubuntu-release-upgrader and update-manager to make it not segfault on wayland (and upgrade from artful to bionic with the GUI)
14:39 <jibel> - Triaging of gnome-software bugs and incoming bugs and crashes.
14:39 <jibel> - Merge proposal that includes fixes for gnome-software tests submitted.
14:39 <jibel> - Update ubiquity tests according to changes in keyboard selection
14:39 <ubot5> bug 1690280 in gnome-software (Ubuntu) "Classic confined snaps don't install" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1690280
14:39 <jibel> ..
14:39 <seb128> thanks jibel
14:39 <seb128> #topic kenvandine
14:39 <seb128> kenvandine, hey
14:39 <kenvandine> hey
14:40 <kenvandine> * Created a classic snap for gnome-software, built for base-18 (to be renamed core18) for bionic.  This works fine on bionic, but not 17.10 or 16.04 due to snapcraft not really supporting building for another base yet.  Sergio is working on getting that sorted out ASAP.
14:40 <kenvandine> * Working on locale support in the desktop snaps
14:40 <kenvandine> * Preparing for GNOME AB meeting later this week
14:40 <kenvandine> * I'll be traveling tomorrow and Monday
14:40 <kenvandine> EOF
14:40 <seb128> thanks kenvandine, see at fosdem :)
14:40 <kenvandine> :-D
14:40 <seb128> #topic Laney
14:40 <seb128> Laney, hey
14:41 <Laney> hi there
14:41 <Laney> o more work on the alarms stuff, now setting up and triggering the timer works, and snoozing works, just got to integrate the units into the build system
14:41 <Laney> o I got some feedback on the systemd user stuff, should try to get back to that this week
14:41 <Laney> o fixed upower autopkgtest (trivial), just uploaded that, should make the new version migrate if it's all good
14:41 <Laney> o got germinate and livecd-rootfs approved for snap seeding stuff, just tweaking livecd-rootfs to fix the tests then should soon be good to go (look at the diff for livecd-rootfs 2.492 if you want to see what a fail looks like)
14:41 <Laney> o a lot of babysitting of autopkgtests and working with IS since the clouds - particularly the boston ones - were quite unreliable this week. sort of getting the queues under control now
14:41 <Laney> ?
14:42 <seb128> thanks Laney, good work getting the snap seeding ready!
14:42 <seb128> #topic oSoMoN
14:42 <seb128> oSoMoN, hey
14:42 <oSoMoN> hey
14:42 <oSoMoN> • firefox
14:42 <oSoMoN> ∘ helped Johan debug localization of firefox snap
14:42 <oSoMoN> • chromium
14:42 <oSoMoN> ∘ 63.0.3239.132 was published to {artful,xenial,trusty}-security
14:42 <oSoMoN> ∘ 64.0.3282.119 in bionic-proposed (should migrate shortly), ready for {artful,xenial,trusty}-security in stage PPA, and snap in candidate channel
14:42 <oSoMoN> ∘ updated dev to 65.0.3325.18 and snap in edge channel
14:42 <oSoMoN> ∘ talked to upstream author of VA-API patch, he is reworking it at the moment, in the meantime I rebased the existing patch on the latest dev branch but there were numerous conflicts and I must have missed something because I am not seeing hardware-accelerated video decoding as I did before
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ investigated color emoji support in chromium, this is being implemented upstream
14:43 <oSoMoN> • libreoffice
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ filed and fixed https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115208
14:43 <ubot5> bugs.documentfoundation.org bug 115208 in LibreOffice "Apparmor profile doesn't allow java execution" [Normal,Resolved: fixed]
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ backported debian patch to fix FTBFS with newer libpoppler
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ filed and fixed bug #1745685 by backporting an upstream patch
14:43 <ubot5> bug 1745685 in glm (Ubuntu) "FTBFS with gcc 7.3.0-1ubuntu1" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1745685
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ looking again into bug #1699772 that makes libreoffice autopkgtests fail on i386
14:43 <ubot5> bug 1699772 in linux (Ubuntu) "linux-image-4.13.0-12-generic, linux-image-4.10.0-24-generic, linux-image-4.8.0-56-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-81-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-121-generic | Regression: many user-space apps crashing" [Critical,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1699772
14:43 <oSoMoN> ∘ investigated color emoji support in libreoffice, no support upstream yet (not even in 6.0)
14:43 <oSoMoN> </week>
14:43 <seb128> oSoMoN, is the libreoffice/i386 issue still that kernel/java problem?
14:43 <oSoMoN> yes
14:44 <seb128> should we skip over that test again?
14:44 <oSoMoN> I think we should, but I'm testing kernel 4.14.15 to see if it fixes it
14:44 <seb128> k
14:44 <seb128> thanks oSoMoN
14:45 <seb128> #topic seb128
14:45 <seb128> • reviewed the common printing dialogs sources in NEW
14:45 <seb128> • some binNEW handling
14:45 <seb128> • launchpads/e.u.c reviews/triaging
14:45 <seb128> • meetings, trying to keep up with ongoing work, trello updates
14:45 <seb128> </week>
14:45 <seb128> #topic tkamppeter
14:45 <seb128> tkamppeter, hey
14:45 <tkamppeter> - Hardware: Got an HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 multi-function device. Tested it. Working well on Bionic, both via HPLIP (printing and scanning) and driverless (printing only).
14:45 <tkamppeter> - cups-filters: Released 1.20.0: Improvements on driverless PPD generator, as human-readable strings for all options and choices including PageSize, even proprietary names taken from printer's strings file, fixes to actually get all page sizes, including borderless ones, made also color mode and media type correctly work.
14:45 <tkamppeter> - CUPS snap: Looked into how to get it into the store.
14:45 <tkamppeter> - Google Summer of Code 2018: Continued with Sahil Arora on removing use of private Poppler APIs in cups-filters. Work on GSoC 2018 application of the Linux Foundation, making sure all subgroups put up project ideas.
14:45 <tkamppeter> - Bugs.
14:46 <seb128> thanks tkamppeter
14:46 <seb128> #topic robert_ancell
14:46 <seb128> - Updated GNOME software channels branch to support URLs of the form snap://moon-buggy?channel=beta
14:46 <seb128> - Updated GNOME software paid snaps branch to work with recent upstream changes.
14:46 <seb128> - Working on getting channel information returned from Snap searches so we can
14:46 <seb128> #topic AOB
14:47 <seb128> other topics?
14:47 <jbicha> I thought the Shotwell/Photos topic on the Hub was interesting
14:48 <seb128> in what regard?
14:48 <jbicha> well someone did a lot of work to make that chart at least!
14:48 <seb128> right
14:48 <seb128> it's probably worth considering next cycle
14:48 <jbicha> I like the UI, but it seems Photos just still has a few "essential" features missing for now
14:49 <seb128> yeah, also tracker depends is still a topic not sorted out
14:49 <seb128> and changing in LTS cycle is something we usually avoid doing
14:49 <seb128> especially for something non trivial which interact with user datas
14:49 <jbicha> last I checked, Fedora shipped Shotwell too so no rush from our part
14:49 <seb128> like it's one thing to change the charmap picker, another to change the photos library
14:50 <seb128> right
14:50 <jbicha> nothing else from me :)
14:50 <seb128> thanks jbicha
14:50 <seb128> anybody having something to share/discuss?
14:50 <seb128> +else
14:51 <seb128> seems not, it's a wrap then
14:51 <willcooke> thanks everyone
14:51 <seb128> thanks everyone!
14:51 <seb128> #endmeeting