GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes

In preparing for the GNOME 3.36 stable release due out on 11 March, GNOME Shell and Mutter issued their final v3.36.0 releases on Saturday...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-Shell-Mutter-3.36-Release

[WizardGed]

GNOME Shell dates to be off by 1900 years

I do have to say that is quite a last minute fix. I can only imagine the conversation:

QA: Hey we seem to have a bug it says the year is 120?

Developer: Quae est difficultas?

[tildearrow]

I do have to say that is quite a last minute fix. I can only imagine the conversation:

GNOME team discovering time travel

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

I do have to say that is quite a last minute fix. I can only imagine the conversation:

Just laughed my ... off. But shouldn't it be 'estne'?

[treba]

Just switched to Fedora 32 and the combination of all the improvements seem to have made quite a difference concerning resource usage: the fan of my machine mostly doesn't spin up any more when doing lightweight office stuff and there are way less situation where I can perceive frame drops (e.g. when opening the GS overview). Finally, the IO optimizations seem to pay of quite a bit: I do not see any multiple frame stuttering any more when compiling Firefox - the shell keeps responsive even under hight load.

So overall this appears to be a great step for the Shell to get out of the way and simply doing it's job in a efficient way.

[uid313]

I really like GNOME (after installing the extensions Dash-to-panel and ArcMenu). It feels very polished.

[lowlands]

More micro releases are expected from Redhat

More micro releases are expected from Red Hat.

Redhat also plans to backport some fixes to old, officially unsupported versions.

Red Hat also plans to backport some fixes to old, officially unsupported versions.

There, fixed it for yah

[Volta]

Too bad there's no way to get it for Fedora 31 or Ubuntu 19.10. If Fedora 32 is stable I'll probably give it a try.

[perpetually high]

I really like GNOME (after installing the extensions Dash-to-panel and ArcMenu). It feels very polished.

Let me recommend a couple more also, mostly optional, but I find improves usability:

Clipboard Indicator
Alt-Tab Switcher Delay Removal (removes a noticeably delay when hitting alt+tab or super+tab)
Sound input & output device chooser (quickly change from the top right bar)
Toggle mute on middle click (helpful for desktops, middle clicking Volume icon on top right will toggle mute)

[kmare]

Just switched to Fedora 32 and the combination of all the improvements seem to have made quite a difference concerning resource usage: the fan of my machine mostly doesn't spin up any more when doing lightweight office stuff and there are way less situation where I can perceive frame drops (e.g. when opening the GS overview). Finally, the IO optimizations seem to pay of quite a bit: I do not see any multiple frame stuttering any more when compiling Firefox - the shell keeps responsive even under hight load.

So overall this appears to be a great step for the Shell to get out of the way and simply doing it's job in a efficient way.

Regarding the I/O optimizations, are you referring to this MR?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1052#note_733505

I'm asking as I really hope it's going to get merged, but at the moment it doesn't look like it has yet.

BTW, thank you for reporting about F32, it's definitely what I'm personally looking forward to