GNOME Shell + Mutter Had A Busy November With Some Big Performance Optimizations
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The GNOME Shell Developer Blog has put out their list of notable changes that landed over the last month. Highlights include:
- Fixes to the GNOME Shell authentication dialog.
- Work to remove the libcroco CSS parsing library from the GNOME Shell.
- App Grid improvements, which have also been now back-ported to the 3.34 series.
- GNOME Shell now respects the system font.
- Mutter now supports updating multiple regions independently for its regional clipping support for updating the selected areas of the screen with damage / changed contents. This support can lead to reductions in time to submit frames by up to 44%.
- Mutter's shadow buffer handling to increase performance.
- A fix to avoid full window redraws when using DMA-BUF or EGLImage buffers on Wayland as another power and performance optimization.
- An XWayland full-screen games workaround regarding RandR handling.
More details on these changes and more via blogs.gnome.org.
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