As discussed at last week's meeting, the Ubuntu Desktop team will not be making a decision about which GNOME version we will target for Ubuntu 17.10 yet. This is because GNOME developers sometimes make big changes that require more integration work that is difficult to complete in the short Ubuntu release cycle.
In the last 2 Ubuntu releases, we made this decision between GNOME Freeze and Ubuntu's Feature Freeze. This cycle, both the GNOME and Ubuntu release schedules were modified slightly to give us about 2 weeks there. [1] [2] I encourage you to visit [3] to get an idea of the goals some GNOME developers would like to achieve this cycle. Not all goals are mentioned there and not all goals will necessarily be completed this cycle. Here's a few more things that may affect us. GNOME might support non-integer scaling (for Hi-DPI displays). gjs will probably be ported from mozjs38 to mozjs52 (the current, supported version of Firefox ESR's JavaScript engine). The Nautilus developer suggested that Nautilus 3.26 might use gtk4. Nautilus is fairly standalone and doesn't need to be updated at the same time as the rest of GNOME. The GTK+ developers were hoping that part of GNOME would have been using gtk4 for 3.24 which did not happen, so we'll see what happens here. I have uploaded an initial gtk4 package to the Artful new queue and the GNOME3 Staging PPA. By the way, see https://pad.lv/1585903 for ideas on how to reduce our remaining gtk2 dependencies. I expect several GNOME components to switch from autotools to meson this cycle. [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentyfive [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseSchedule [3] https://wiki.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/FeaturePlans Thanks, Jeremy Bicha -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
