GNOME Shell & Mutter Get Tidied Up Ahead Of Next Month's GNOME 3.30

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell & Mutter Get Tidied Up Ahead Of Next Month's GNOME 3.30

They didn't make it out in time for last week's GNOME 3.29.91 release but updates to Mutter and GNOME Shell are now available in their near-final state ahead of the upcoming GNOME 3.30 desktop update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Shell-Mutter-3.29.91

[davidbepo]

for the first time in years im looking forward for the next version of gnome, AFAIK there hasnt been any screwing anything outside of nautilus which i (of course) dont use and the performance improvements seems to be pretty massive

[torturedutopian]

KDE guy here but quite enthusiastic about the GNOME situation, as it'll impact millions of users now. Gnome 3.28 on 18.04 was pretty good but display was super slow (25-35% of CPU used when scrollings webpages !! + <60 fps desktop effects, with Intel, AMD or Nvidia cards. Really looking forward to checking the progress as it's the last detail that really annoys me.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

performance improvements seems to be pretty massive

I use Gnome Shell 3.29.90 on HP Stream 7 Tablet, and I have to say that performance improvements is really noticeable, in comparison with 3.28.

[TemplarGR]

Anyone knows if the Wayland support has been improved? I used 3.28 with Wayland on Archlinux recently, on AMD R9380 gpu, and i had serious issues with freezes (permanent and momentary), slow performance (especially if i opened qt applications) etc. Really dissappointed with Wayland support. With latest xserver performance is top notch and i have no issues at all.

[uid313]

I hope the Win+LeftArrow and Win+RightArrow window positioning animations are working now on Wayland.

[treba]

I hope the Win+LeftArrow and Win+RightArrow window positioning animations are working now on Wayland.

They do already since 3.28.1

Anyone knows if the Wayland support has been improved?

Lots of improvement, but your case seriously sounds like a special one. I'm using the wayland session since fedora 25 (the default since then) and it's been good and getting better ever since. So it's not a general problem and should definitely not occur on such strong hardware.
Despite multi monitor environments. Then you'll have to wait for https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/73 and maybe https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutte...e_requests/171

I use Gnome Shell 3.29.90 on HP Stream 7 Tablet, and I have to say that performance improvements is really noticeable, in comparison with 3.28.

And some of the very best performance optimizations haven't got merged yet! Especially Daniel van Vugt from canonical is doing a great job here, see:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutte...5.+Performance
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...ge_requests/73


It's really great to see the manpower of ubuntu behind gnome-shell again.

[perpetually high]

Have to agree on the performance improvements. Holy cow, my machine is flying. I'm on Ubuntu 18.10 cosmic right now and can't believe how fast and responsive everything is.

Made a quick gif to show what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/n9DLJ2Z.gif

Hats off to the devs.

[blacknova]

I wonder if some of the fixes would be backported to 18.04, that would have been really nice.

[varikonniemi]

It seems GS is finally becoming production quality, might need to start testing it out again. I was skeptical such major improvements could be achieved before gnome4. This ubuntu dev seems really competent.