GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes

It's GNOME 44 Beta week and today marked the tagging of the beta updates for the GNOME Shell and Mutter...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-44-Beta

[treba]

API / ABI freeze does not mean feature freeze. Triple buffering is thus not fully off the table, even though I wouldn't hold my breath for it. At least there's active work on it, see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutte..._requests/1968

There's still a few features like/y to land, such as support for the Wayland fractional scaling protocol and - hopefully - 2d gestures.

[franglais125]

*cries in frozen Debian*

Anyway, as for triple-buffering, friendly reminder that both Debian and Ubuntu carry those patches by default.

[Mani]

Going to be a promising release.

Does anyone know what "Service channel support" is supposed to mean?

[Pajn]

I wish they would add hidpi xwayland support. After using KDE, going back to blurry windows in Gnome is like going 10 years backwards.

[darkdragon-001]

You can find a list of notable changes planned for the final release here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Engag...es/-/issues/43

I am still hoping for sharing wifi networks via QR code currently only blocked by coding style issues gets merged: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome..._requests/1411

[uid313]

I hope I can run this without any dependencies on X.Org Server o XWayland.

[moonlite]

I wish they would add hidpi xwayland support. After using KDE, going back to blurry windows in Gnome is like going 10 years backwards.

They've had HiDPI support for *many* years now. Do you mean fractional scaling?

[Pajn]

They've had HiDPI support for *many* years now. Do you mean fractional scaling?

Even integer scaling turns blurry due to mutter using the wrong scaling filter https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1787
But yes, I do mean for fractional scaling. Integer scaling doesn't work for actual monitors.

[whitor]

GNOME Shell supports proper HiDPI rendering for XWayland apps with integer scaling. It turns blurry only if you turn on fractional scaling via

scale-monitor-framebuffer

, which is one of the reasons for not enabling that feature by default.