desktop August 2025

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2025-09-01 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 43 Blocker Review Meeting
by Adam Williamson 31 Aug '25

31 Aug '25

# F43 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2025-09-01 # Time: 16:00 UTC # Location: https://matrix.to/#/#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org?web-instance[element.… Hi folks! It's time for a Fedora 43 blocker review meeting! We have 1 proposed blocker and 7 proposed freeze exceptions for Beta, and 5 proposed blockers for Final. Here is a handy link which should show you the meeting time in your local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Fedora+41+Blocker… The meeting will be on Matrix. Click the link above to join in a web client - you can authenticate with your FAS account - or use a dedicated client of your choosing. If you have time today, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ . Remember, you can also now vote on bugs outside of review meetings! If you look at the bug list in the blockerbugs app, you'll see links labeled "Vote!" next to all proposed blockers and freeze exceptions. Those links take you to tickets where you can vote. https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review has instructions on how exactly you do it. We usually go through the tickets shortly before the meeting and apply any clear votes, so the meeting will just cover bugs where there wasn't a clear outcome in the ticket voting yet. **THIS MEANS IF YOU VOTE NOW, THE MEETING WILL BE SHORTER!** We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F43 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you on Monday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net

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Intent to orphan obsolete gnome-sig packages
by Felipe Borges 28 Aug '25

28 Aug '25

Hi folks, gnome-sig is doing a cleanup of its packages, which has been discussed in https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/483 To begin, we are interested in orphaning clearly obsolete packages under gnome-sig. We discussed starting the orphaning process of the packages below a week from now. This should give enough time for people to discuss the initial list. Please let us know if you have any questions about our preliminary list. - GConf2 - clutter - clutter-gst3 - cogl - dbus-glib - dbus-sharp - gconf-editor - gnome-common - gnome-dictionary - gnome-icon-theme - gnome-mime-data - gnome-nettool (consider archiving upstream) - gnome-packagekit (consider archiving upstream) - gnome-photos - gnome-screenshot (gnome-shell has now builtin screenshots) - gnome-sharp (https://github.com/mono/gnome-sharp) - gnome-system-log - gnome-vfs2 - gnome-vfs2-monikers - gtk2 - gtk2-engines - gtk-sharp2 - gtksourceview2 - gtksourceview3 - gtkspell - icon-naming-utils - libart_lgpl - libbonobo - libbonoboui - libdazzle - libglade2 - libgnome - libgnomecanvas - libgnome-games-support (need to update deps first) - libgnomekbd - libgnome-keyring - libsoup - libIDL - liboil - mousetweaks - ORBit2 - vinagre - vte Thanks.

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Re: Intent to orphan obsolete gnome-sig packages
by Michael Catanzaro 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

On Wed, Aug 27 2025 at 12:05:00 PM +02:00:00, Michal Schorm <mschorm(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > Could you please check which of them are used by Cinnamon spin? Hi, No, but Cinnamon maintainers are welcome to check the list and own whatever packages they need. Just keep in mind almost all of the packages on this list are really completely obsolete upstream. The upstream repos are either archived, or don't exist anymore at all, or in a couple of cases the Fedora package corresponds to a branch that's no longer maintained upstream. There will very likely never be a new upstream release of any of these. It would be nice if we could retire as much as possible rather than keep obsolete packages around forever like we do GTK 1 and GLib 1. I recommend looking at what depends on the packages you have installed to assess whether you really need them or not and whether dependency minimization is an option. E.g. nemo-preview depends on clutter. I see muffin and cinnamon itself don't require clutter anymore, so hopefully nemo-preview is the only thing that needs fixed. GTK 2 is an exception in that clearly that one should not be retired. Somebody else can claim it after we orphan it. Thanks Artur for already volunteering to do so. Our list is exact source package names, so we won't drop libsoup3 or vte291, which are not on our list. Michael

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Proposal: Limit release-blocking status of BIOS systems to just certain scenarios
by Kamil Paral 27 Aug '25

27 Aug '25

Hi folks, we have published a release criteria change proposal at Fedora Discussion: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/proposal-limit-release-blocking-stat… This is a notification to make sure everybody can see it and post feedback, even when not watching Fedora Discussion regularly. When replying, **please**, reply to the Discussion topic. Logging in through FAS is trivial. We want a unified discussion in one place, instead of having it split between multiple places. Thank you. Kamil Paral Fedora Quality

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Fedora Workstation Working Group Meeting 2025-08-26
by Michael Catanzaro 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Hi, I forgot to enable Gemini today, so unfortunately there is no detailed meeting summary. We primarily discussed updating the list of packages maintained by gnome-sig group. A status update is available in the issue report: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/483 We also discussed wide-gamut desktop wallpapers. GNOME 49 should be able to display wide-gamut backgrounds in their full glory. glycin has gained support for cicp metadata in jxl images, and mutter is now using glycin for loading backgrounds. The glycin jxl loader has also been made much faster. Upstream GNOME backgrounds will have some wide gamut (display-p3) images in GNOME 49. Michael

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Workstation WG
by catanzaro＠fedoraproject.org 25 Aug '25

25 Aug '25

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Workstation WG on 2025-08-26 from 10:00:00 to 10:50:00 US/Eastern At https://meet.google.com/jod-dkmw-ibd The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the Workstation Working Group. This meeting is open to the public. Feel free to join. Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Etherpad: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/fedora-workstation-wg More information available at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-group/ To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/jod-dkmw-ibd Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 562-232-9197 and enter this PIN: 750 389 066# To view more phone numbers, click this link: https://tel.meet/jod-dkmw-ibd?hs=5 Source: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org//meeting/11086/

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2025-08-25 @ 16:00 UTC - Fedora 43 Blocker Review Meeting
by Adam Williamson 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

# F43 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2025-08-25 # Time: 16:00 UTC # Location: https://matrix.to/#/#blocker-review:fedoraproject.org?web-instance[element.… Hi folks! It's time for a Fedora 43 blocker review meeting! We have 5 proposed blockers and 5 proposed freeze exceptions for Beta, and 5 proposed blockers for Final. Here is a handy link which should show you the meeting time in your local time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Fedora+41+Blocker… The meeting will be on Matrix. Click the link above to join in a web client - you can authenticate with your FAS account - or use a dedicated client of your choosing. If you have time today, you can take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full lists can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ . Remember, you can also now vote on bugs outside of review meetings! If you look at the bug list in the blockerbugs app, you'll see links labeled "Vote!" next to all proposed blockers and freeze exceptions. Those links take you to tickets where you can vote. https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review has instructions on how exactly you do it. We usually go through the tickets shortly before the meeting and apply any clear votes, so the meeting will just cover bugs where there wasn't a clear outcome in the ticket voting yet. **THIS MEANS IF YOU VOTE NOW, THE MEETING WILL BE SHORTER!** We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F43 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you on Monday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora Workstation Working Group Meeting 2025-08-19
by Michael Catanzaro 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Date and Time: 2025-08-12 10:00 AM EST 14:00 UTC Location: https://meet.google.com/jod-dkmw-ibd Previous meeting summary: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.o… Agenda #topic Remove Rhythmbox from default install; add Decibels #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/33 #topic encryption of user data (excludes system) #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/82 #topic GNOME Software with dnf5 backend shows cryptic prompt about importing keys #link https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/486 #topic Announcements, follow-ups, status reports #topic Open Floor

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : Workstation WG
by catanzaro＠fedoraproject.org 18 Aug '25

18 Aug '25

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: Workstation WG on 2025-08-19 from 10:00:00 to 10:50:00 US/Eastern At https://meet.google.com/jod-dkmw-ibd The meeting will be about: Regular meeting for the Workstation Working Group. This meeting is open to the public. Feel free to join. Current Topics: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issues?status=Open&tags=meeting Etherpad: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/fedora-workstation-wg More information available at: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-group/ To join the video meeting, click this link: https://meet.google.com/jod-dkmw-ibd Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 562-232-9197 and enter this PIN: 750 389 066# To view more phone numbers, click this link: https://tel.meet/jod-dkmw-ibd?hs=5 Source: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org//meeting/11086/

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f43-backgrounds available
by Luya Tshimbalanga 15 Aug '25

15 Aug '25

Hello team, The Fedora 43 default wallpaper, packaged as f43-backgrounds, is now available in both Rawhide , branched Fedora 43 and EPEL 10 repositories. It uses JPEG XL as default image format, first in use on Fedora 42 and should work on all desktop environment. desktop-backgrounds is also updated for Fedora 43 theme. References: [1] src.fedoraproject.org Overview - rpms/f43-backgrounds - src.fedoraproject.org <#> 🔗 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/f43-backgrounds/ <https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/f43-backgrounds/> -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Design Team Fedora Design Suite maintainer

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