Re: GUADEC 2017 call for talk submissions

[Sam Thursfield]

Hi again,

The GUADEC papers deadline has been extended until 11:00 UTC tomorrow
(Tuesday 25th April).

Sam

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Sam Thursfield  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The GUADEC 2017 call for papers closes this Sunday, 23rd April.
>
> We have excellent submissions so far but there is still room for more,
> so if you have an idea for something to talk about at GUADEC in
> Manchester please submit it to the papers committee using the
> https://registration.guadec.org/ website.
>
> The full announcement is below:
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Sam Thursfield  wrote:
>> The GUADEC papers committee is looking for interesting, high-quality,
>> talks for this year’s conference (being held in Manchester, UK, on 28
>> July to 2nd August). This is a great opportunity to share your ideas
>> with the GNOME project, as well as the wider open source community. You
>> don’t have to be an existing member of the GNOME project to submit a
>> talk: if you have something interesting to say about software or
>> technology, we want to hear from you!
>>
>> Subjects that we are particularly interested in include:
>>
>>  * Design of user and developer experiences
>>  * Operating system plumbing
>>  * Application development and deployment
>>  * Use of GNOME technologies outside the desktop
>>  * Outreach to new contributors
>>  * Project organisation and governance
>>  * Privacy and security
>>  * Developments in open source/Free Software
>>  * The GNOME developer experience
>>
>> However, if there is another subject that you would like to talk about,
>> we would love to see your submission.
>>
>> Talks can be either 25 or 40 minutes in length, which includes time for
>> questions.
>>
>> Schedule
>> 
>>
>> 23rd April: deadline for talk submissions
>>
>> 7th May: speakers will be notified by email if their talk has been accepted
>>
>> 12th May: deadline for speakers to confirm their attendance
>>
>> 28th-30th July: core conference days in Manchester, England
>>
>> How to submit a talk
>> 
>>
>> Talks should be submitted through the GUADEC registration website at
>> https://registration.guadec.org
>>
>> A separate call for lightning talks, birds of a feather sessions and
>> hackfests will be made later.
>>
>> The papers team is looking forward to your talk proposal. In case of
>> questions regarding the call for talks, please contact the papers team
>> at guadec-papers@gnome org. For general questions regarding the
>> conference, please consult the GUADEC web site or contact the local
>> GUADEC organizing team at guadec-organizat...@gnome.org.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sam (on behalf of the GUADEC papers committee)
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Multimedia keys API regression in gnome-settings-daemon 3.24

[Bastien Nocera]

Hey,

After splitting up gnome-settings-daemon in small independent daemons
for the GNOME 3.24 release, making it more robust and easier to debug,
a regression was discovered in gnome-settings-daemon's multimedia keys
plugin, which handles, well, multimedia keys and offers up an API for
applications.

For around 6 years, the API implemented by the multimedia keys plugin
did not match the API documentation for it. A work-around was put in
place for GNOME 3.24, and a fix for both development and older versions
is available to make the implemented API match the documented one.

Forward compatibility for GNOME 3.22:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?h=gnome-3-22=12c92274bc118836d9c6dcb5262b82536ef2fe58

Work-around for GNOME 3.24:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?h=gnome-3-24=42f75ed4cdc86498d6e02e511a1314b8916bd4aa

Fix for GNOME 3.26:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?id=33d47e655606ac88ed7d529c1132e5be6299633b

The downside of this is that applications will need to be modified to
use the D-Bus name as documented since 2011, rather than the cargo-
culted D-Bus name that was used.

The patches are small enough but they will be numerous.

Examples for totem:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781589
and rhythmbox:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781664

Cheers
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