GNOME: 45 → 46

[amaxine]

This draft PR starts update work for the upcoming GNOME 46 release.

• Schedule: https://wiki.gnome.org/FortySix
• Project: TBD
• Previous major release: GNOME: 44 → 45 #247766
• Tool for reviewing changes: https://github.com/jtojnar/nonemast
• Release announcement: https://release.gnome.org/46/
• Hydra jobset: https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/gnome

How to help

• test running your system from this branch (warning: you might not be able to roll back to 45 without dropping all configuration)
• test running new versions of software from this branch
• check hydra builds
  1. look at the latest evaluation in the jobset
  2. check the newly/still failing jobs tab, look for red crosses ❌
  3. open the individual failures' logs
  4. if you see any failures that look like dependency issue or anything that could be caused by this PR, report it in a comment, or open a PR against gnome-46 branch, if you are able to.
• report any and all problems!

Needs work

• Test and fix darwin stuff
  • ofborg-eval-nixpkgs-unstable-jobset fails (gst-plugins-base)
• g-c-c g-r-d doesn't support password generation: WARNING: Failed to open file: Error opening file /usr/share/dict/linux.words: No such file or directory
  • consider setting environment.wordlist.enable = true as part of g-r-d? not enough by itself, would still need to patch
• keyring unlocking doesn't use native prompts all of a sudden?
  • cannot repro
• figure out if there's been any implementation changes that require something on our side for mounting from g-o-a - mounting dav/google accounts?
  • all good
• snapshot crashes on startup/can't open stream
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/134 maybe this
• Try the new gi-compile-repository, gi-decompile-typelib and gi-inspect-typelib
  • Decide which output they should belong to (they are in -bin right now)
  • Figure out how the gobject-introspection-wrapped wrapper might be used here (?? tbh idk)
• loupe/glycin crashes when loading images
  • seems to be sandboxing/bubblewrap related - we need to fix the sandbox patch, the bind mounts make no sense in the context of nix
  • amaxine: bind mounting /nix/store seems a bit more risky than /usr, but it's unclear to me how to instead pass in the linker and each dep
• write release notes
  • link to official release announcement (see above), mentioning experimental VRR support and GTK renderer changes as notable
  • we no longer ship adwaita-dark by default in 24.05 as it's not supported - remember to update your configuration accordingly (gnome-themes-extra, gnome-theme-extra: depends on both gtk2 and gtk3 #277944)
  • new g-r-d features as before first require being explicitly enabled in nix (services.gnome.gnome-remote-desktop.enable)
• add jxl support where necessary
  • land libjxl: build gdk-pixbuf loader and thumbnailer #299988 and gnome/eog: add jxl support  #269563
• GNOME-adjacent desktop breakages (@bobby285271)
  • cinnamon.cinnamon-control-center: FTBFS with GOA 3.49 + gnome-online-accounts-gtk
  • pantheon.elementary-notifications: FTBFS with Vala 0.56.16
  • nixosTests.pantheon: Requires systemd managed gnome-session
  • I try to actually do some testing in the following week.
• glib/g-i circular dependency
• gcr/gnome-keyring ssh-agent changes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/issues/770
  • currently disabling gcr ssh-agent and enabling gnome-keyring ssh-agent
• glycin-loaders doesn't build (see commit)
• all of gstreamer needs updating to 1.24
• fix gjs test failures
  • bobby285271: On 9b23cf8 this runs fine for me See #gnome:nixos.org
  • for now just disabling introspection tests
• fix libshumate test failures
  • pending upstream fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libshumate/-/issues/71
  • amaxine: I'm describing this as done within the context of upstream's acknowledgement
• fix gst-python test failures
  • pending upstream fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobject/-/merge_requests/304
  • hopefully PR fixing will be reviewed so we can confidently add the patch
• fix gnome-remote-desktop/freerdp building
• actually test evolution/evolution-ews (spamassassin tests don't pass so I've not built it)

Nice to have

• Package Papers (gtk4 port of evince)
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers
  • papers: init at 45.0-unstable-2024-03-27 #299579
• Ensure all GNOME Circle additions are in nixpkgs
• Extensions
  • GNOME: update extensions for v46 #302860

Related

Closes #282102
Closes #300620
Closes #300634
Closes #301052
Closes #299414
Closes #292187

[bobby285271]

With 2209d11 + 016a02c + 14436ce, all gnome-maps tests pass for me

Note that gobject-introspection 1.79 no longer installs GLib introspection data (instead this is provided by GLib itself), this causes some build failures like libical and libsecret because their test overrides GI_TYPELIB_PATH, or GI_TYPELIB_PATH is not properly set (I would expect gobject-introspection's setup-hook doing this). It is unclear how many breakages this will cause yet.

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Related: #291339 (comment)

Here are some of the fixes related to this change in this PR:

• 620991b ayatana-indicator-messages: Don't reset GI_TYPELIB_PATH
• 70aad63 libsecret: Use env.prepend() for test environment setup
• 9719df6 xdg-desktop-portal: Add missing gobject-introspection
• 8de37dc libical: Fix typo in test env setup
• 10a9729 python3Packages.python-dbusmock: Add missing gobject-introspection

[rhendric]

Thank you for corralling all of this, @amaxine!

[vcunat]

• The merge broke glib build on aarch64-darwin (and maybe more):

  Program g-ir-scanner found: NO
  
  meson.build:2553:14: ERROR: Program 'g-ir-scanner' not found or not executable
  

[linsui]

Should I target my PR depending on this PR to staging-next?

[jtojnar]

Yes, please target staging-next.

[bobby285271]

#291339 (comment)

More specifically it is the first glib used to bootstrap the first gobject-introspection that fails. Some merge conflicts are wrongly resolved I guess, in the original fixup I would expect also build man page on darwin and have (lib.mesonEnable "introspection" withIntrospection) on darwin.

[vcunat]

For reference, glib should be fixed by PR #306215

[PerchunPak]

Daily driving GNOME 46 for a few weeks already, so far no problems, just enjoying this release

[jcmolinajr]

Daily driving GNOME 46 for a few weeks already, so far no problems, just enjoying this release

Pardon my ignorance. How can I try 46 already?

[peigongdsd]

Daily driving GNOME 46 for a few weeks already, so far no problems, just enjoying this release

Pardon my ignorance. How can I try 46 already?

Use staging-next branch of nixpkgs.

P.S. maybe master branch now...

[PaulGrandperrin]

It's in master and unstable-small but not unstable yet: https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=291339

[Lyndeno]

Polkit authentication, via pkexec or 1password, fails as the password prompt does not show up on Gnome 46

[Andreas02-dev]

Daily driving GNOME 46 for a few weeks already, so far no problems, just enjoying this release

Pardon my ignorance. How can I try 46 already?

Friendly ping to let you know it is now also available in NixOS Unstable.

[linuxmobile]

Friendly ping to let you know it is now also available in NixOS Unstable.

It's Ready.

[BillHuang2001]

After upgrading to Gnome 46 on nixos-unstable, I am experiencing a "click-through" bug, which makes many full-screen apps/games unusable. I noticed the issue is marked resolved on GitLab, perhaps there are some missing patches?

[Aleksanaa]

For people wanting to report bugs, please open a new issue.

[vcunat]

At a quick glance in their gitlab, that bug would seem fixed by mutter 46.1 which is in nixpkgs master.