Running gnome-shell 3.8 on gnome-settings-daemon 3.6 is likely to be very buggy and unstable. Although admittedly it hasn’t had a huge amount of testing since the assumption was that we would get g-s-d 3.8 into saucy.
For the 3.8 cycle many features were moved out of gnome-settings-daemon and into other components such as mutter and gnome-shell. Most of these however require code changes in g-s-d to use the new components. Other than this there were not really many new features added to g-s-d and it is largely just a big bug fix release. - OSD Popups are now drawn by gnome-shell so that they match the shell UI. - Keygrabber was moved into gnome-shell, since there were lots of issues with media_keys keybindings not working in certain parts of gnome-shell - Background plugin was moved into mutter - Screenshots are handled by gnome-shell. - Power support is pretty much broken when using g-s-d 3.6 All of these were moved to overcome technical limitations making it hard or impossible to fix key bugs. In most cases by sticking with 3.6 we do not get to take advantage of these new components and we are left using the old unmaintained and buggy implementations. In addition there are lots of bug fixes for things like power plugin, notifications etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219486 Title: FFe: Update gnome-settings-daemon to 3.8.4 Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/gnome-settings- daemon/ubuntu/view/head:/debian/changelog https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings- daemon/tree/NEWS?h=gnome-3-8 Call for testing: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu- desktop/2013-August/004296.html The Ubuntu GNOME team has been testing gnome-settings-daemon 3.8 with packages available in the GNOME3 Staging PPA (for 13.04 users) since the Saucy cycle opened. We didn't get the upload in by Feature Freeze because we were waiting for indicator-keyboard to land in Saucy to make sure that this upload didn't cause any regressions with the input method support. There are no known remaining regressions with this upload. I can no longer reproduce bug 1201679 with this build. This update is also a prerequisite for updating gnome-disk-utility to 3.8 (bug 1092719). gnome-control-center also needs updating (for moved gsettings keys and similar) and gnome-shell needs a patch to be dropped. I am ready to upload all three of these packages now. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.6.4-0ubuntu19 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-4.9-generic 3.11.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-4-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Sep 1 11:29:05 2013 MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1219486/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
