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OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/35591
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/GNOME:Factory/gnome-shell?expand=0&rev=26
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Tue Mar 23 21:43:54 CET 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 2.29.1:
+ For a full list of changes, see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2010-March/msg00096.html
+ Support and require Clutter 1.2
+ Allow dragging windows in the linear workspaces view
+ Shrink and scale the application switcher as necessary when
there are too many applications to fit on the screen
+ Scroll in the linear view by clicking on desktop and dragging
+ Display application search results as tiles
+ Improve RTL support
+ Add WindowManager.setKeybindingHandler() to allow extensions to
take over keybindings such as alt-Tab
+ Add style information to the LookingGlass actor picker
+ Run dialog improvements:
- Make <Control>Return run in terminal
- Port to CSS
- Support opening files and folders
- Store history in GConf and allow access with up arrow
+ Minor UI improvements:
- Show a message when unmount from "Places & Devices" fails
- Use one button to toggle between single and grid view
- Disable clicking on the background of workspaces with
multiple windows to prevent accidental workspace activation
when activating a window
- Reduce window movement when closing windows from the overview
- Update look and feel of the search field to match mockups
- Animate the transition between the linear and grid views
- Shrink windows to small previews when dragging
- Visual tweaks
- Make workspace switch keybindings work in the overview
+ Shell toolkit (ST):
- allow "background-gradient-direction: none"
- replace StTextureCache with the much more feature-rich
ShellTextureCache
- Add st_texture_cache_load() and
st_texture_cache_load_file_to_cogl_texture()
- Add caret-size CSS property to style the size of the StEntry
cursor
- Clean up and rework scrolling to work better with Clutter
size negotiation
- Redo StDrawingArea not to use ClutterCairoTexture, fixing
Clutter-1.2 compatibility
- Rewrite StScrollbar size allocation for clutter-1.2
compatibiltiy
- Add :hover pseudo-class support to StEntry
- Add st_theme_node_get_horizontal/vertical_padding
- Factor out common ClutterContainer implementation code
- Improve handling of hint text
+ Development and building:
- Add a --version command line option
- Add 'gnome-shell-full' target to our jhbuild that builds GTK+
stack in addition to more immediate gnome-shell dependencies
- To allow debugging from an ssh session, when running without
a display, automatically try to connect to a current session
of the same user
- Error out at startup if GConf schemas are missing
- Change screencast extension to ogv
- Build fixes
+ Code cleanups
+ Bug fixes:
- Fix detection of 12/24 locals
- Memory leak fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
+ Updated translations.
- Drop gnome-shell-translations.patch: fixed upstream.
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Tue Feb 23 09:18:33 CET 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 2.29.0:
+ For a full list of changes, see
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2010-February/msg00058.html
+ New message tray showing notifications sliding into the bottom
of the screen. Includes a status area for past notifications,
and also pulls in "urgent window" handled in GNOME 2 by
flashing the taskbar.
+ Add the ability to set your presence to the user status menu
+ Allow switching the overview between a grid and linear view of
workspaces
+ Redo the application browser to use a grid of icons
+ Initial version of the extension system
+ Initial support for RTL layout in ST and the shell
+ Add undo capability to overview, e.g., when removing favorites
+ New workspace switcher popup
+ Work on visual appearance to match mockups
+ Port most of existing code to CSS
+ Other visual improvements
- Show a scaled-up excerpt from the application item in the
panel
- Minimize windows to 'Activities' button
- Fade out desktop icons when showing overview
- Use a fixed ordering for well-known icons in the system tray
- Nicer animation of hidden windows when transitioning to/from
the overview
- Draw a ripple when the hot corner is hit
+ App switcher (Alt-Tab) improvements
- Many behavior and visual refinements based on design feedback
- Show a separator between windows on this and other workspaces
- Position on the currently focused monitor
- Bug fixes
+ Miscellaneous behavioral improvements
- Allow workspace switching by mousewheel on indicators in
overview
- Allow dropping on workspace indicators
- Enable DND of search results
- When closing a window from the overview that puts up a
confirm dialog, switch to that dialog
- When the sidebar is collapsed, auto-hide it
- Show "No matching results" when search matches nothing
- Limit user to 16 workspaces
- Allow clicking on any part of section headers in the dash for
browsing
- Match on executable names as well when searching
- For clock AM/PM vs. 24-hour based on the locale
+ ST (Shell Toolkit) improvements
- CSS addtions:
. width/height
. max-width/max-height
. -st-shadow
. gradients
. radial gradients
. Non-uniform border widths (when no corner radius)
. text-decoration: [underline|strikethrough]
- Make allocation behavior consistent across actors
- Support fixed-position children in StBoxLayout
- Support raising and lowering children in StBoxLayout
- Add st_box_layout_move_child and st_box_layout_insert_actor
- Add st_box_layout_remove_all, st_box_layout_destroy_children,
st_box_layout_get_n_children
- Add StClickable, StOverflowBox actors
- Support setting scrollbar policy on StScrollView
- Support shadows on edges of StScrollView to hint at more
content
+ Make places results available in search
+ Handle changes to the current resolution
+ Bug fixes for multihead support
+ Make screen shell recorder work again
+ More miscellaneous improvements
- Add gnome-shell --eval-file=<file> to eval file in running
shell via D-BUS
- Add eject buttons to places section
- Add completion to the Alt-F2 run dialog
- Make screen recording parameters configurable
- Add an initial version of a manpage
+ Performance improvements
+ Code cleanups
+ Bug fixes
+ Build fixes
+ Updated translations.
- Drop gnome-shell-leak.patch: fixed upstream.
- Add gnome-shell-translations.patch to fix installation of
translations, and call autoreconf -fi for this patch.
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Thu Jan 28 12:43:43 CET 2010 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Pass --enable-compile-warnings=no to configure, to avoid broken
build because of deprecated functions.
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Sun Oct 11 15:52:05 EDT 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Add gnome-shell-leak.patch from git to fix some slow down after
using alt-tab a lot.
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Thu Oct 8 18:47:29 CEST 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 2.28.0:
+ Many changes, for the complete list, see
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/log/?id=2.28.0
+ New application switcher with alt-tab
+ bgo#594916 - Allow cancelling DND by hitting Esc
+ Use a stable minimum-motion placement for windows
+ Remove window destroy effect
+ Improve support for multihead setups
+ Possibility to use CSS for styling
+ Add scroll-wheel support to the calendar
+ Many bug fixes and UI improvements
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Wed Oct 7 13:14:17 CEST 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Create a preview mode for GNOME 3 that can be started from gdm:
+ install a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions.
+ this .desktop file starts a script that will prepend a custom
directory to XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and then start the usual GNOME
script.
+ the custom directory contain an autostart file for gnome-shell,
that overrides the default gnome-panel+windowmanager combo.
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Wed Sep 16 19:03:01 CEST 2009 - lmedinas@opensuse.org
- Update to version 2.27.3:
+ Add a popup menu to the "Applications" area in the overview
that shows up on click on hold and allows selecting between the
windows of the application
+ Search enhancements:
- Add a separate search results section for "Preferences"
- Hide search headers for empty sections
+ Make mouse scroll window over windows in the overview zoom them
+ Display errors nicely if command execution in the run dialog
fails
+ Make the run dialog and "looking glass" debug console work in
the overview
+ Control-click on applications now opens a new window
+ Bug fixes
+ Build fixes
+ Code cleanups
+ Updated translations.
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Wed Sep 9 03:16:39 CEST 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
- Update to version 2.27.2:
+ See http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/log/?id=2.27.2 for
details, here's a selection of the important changes
+ bgo#592507 - Javascript exception when ~/.gtk-bookmarks is missing
+ Add an active property to ShellButtonBox
+ ShellButtonBox: Use default handlers, not self-connections
+ ShellButtonBox: only listen to button 1 and single clicks
+ Simplify Button class by using ShellButtonBox
+ Build tweaks
+ Consolidate window tracking filters between app monitor and
overview
+ Do not display windows with skip-taskbar hint in overview
+ Improve key navigation for search results
+ Remove the timeout for checking if an item is drawn under the
pointer
+ Merge headers when a single section of search results is
displayed
+ Add Tweener.slowDownFactor, initialize from
$GNOME_SHELL_SLOWDOWN_FACTOR
+ Add API to programmatically initiate a drag
+ Add shell_texture_cache_pixbufs_equal
+ Add shell_button_box_fake_release
+ Add volumes support to places
+ Remove some vestigial code
+ Redo AppWell glow to be based on a based on a .png instead of
cairo
+ Make checking if an item is under the pointer asynchonous again
+ Compress notifications of menu changes with a timeout
+ bgo#594184 - Fix up glow positioning logic
+ Updated translations.
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Sat Aug 29 10:25:06 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 2.27.1:
+ See http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-shell/log/?id=2.27.1 for
details, here's a selection of the important changes
+ Many UI improvements
+ Use GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory instead of
GnomeThumbnailFactory
+ panel: Switch to fully dynamic layout
+ Add application menu area to panel
+ Move towards shell-black02 mockup
+ Implement the multi-window highlight on WellDisplayItem
+ Make dragging an item to the Add Workspace button launch it on
a new workspace
+ Implement distinct 2-window and multi-window highlights
+ Remove maximization effects
+ Add localization support.
+ Highlight the search entry when the user clicks or starts
typing in it
+ Prevent activating hot corner multiple times by accident
+ ShellAppMonitor: create "applications" for unknown windows
+ Don't show empty categories
+ Make recent docs display two columns
+ Display search results in the dash
+ Only respawn if gnome-shell exits abnormally
+ Use new plugin-modality functionality in Mutter
+ Add 'r' as an alias to 'restart' in run dialog
+ Improve display of search results
+ Better handling of Nautilus window
+ Handle window title changes causing mapping changes
+ Require an explicit --xephyr option
+ Restore GNOME based on GNOME configuration
+ Make the gradient on the top panel the same as the "dash"
+ Change search box text to "Find..."
+ Renable PrintScreen and Super_L in the overview
- Remove libgnomeui-devel, libwnck-devel BuildRequires.
- Add gnome-desktop-devel, intltool BuildRequires.
- Add lang package.
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Thu Aug 13 01:03:12 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to version 2.27.0:
+ This is the first official tarball.
+ No list of changes as the code is really moving a lot at the
moment.
- Drop gnome-shell-clutter-1.0.patch: fixed upstream.
- Remove gnome-common BuildRequires and gnome-autogen.sh call.
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Mon Aug 3 21:00:31 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Add gnome-shell-clutter-1.0.patch to fix build with clutter 1.0,
and add gnome-common BuildRequires and gnome-autogen.sh call.
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Wed Jul 22 03:22:20 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to git as of today.
- Use libexecdir.
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Fri Jul 17 18:19:50 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Change clutter-unstable-devel BuildRequires to clutter-devel.
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Thu May 14 14:46:07 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Update to git version as of May 14th.
- Drop gnome-shell-no-static-lib.patch: fixed upstream.
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Mon May 4 14:02:25 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Try to fix build on 11.1.
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Mon May 4 03:58:09 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Add tarball created from git, with a patch to adapt for the
mutter rename (included in the tarball, unforunately, since I
couldn't generate the tarball without the patch).
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Fri May 1 19:36:14 CEST 2009 - vuntz@novell.com
- Initial package.