Distributor notes about GNOME 3.6.0

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

We've tried very hard to fix both serious bugs and cosmetic issues
since the 3.5.92 release.
As always, a few issues could not be fully resolved in time, or
require a fix in another part of the stack. Here is a short list of
noteworthy issues, that you should be aware of:


682395 (nautilus) Nautilus tabs have black background

This is has cost quite a bit of debugging time in the last week, until
it was finally determined that this is triggered by using the xim
immodule in GTK+, and seems to be specific to the way nautilus
implements its search entry. We will try to have this fixed in 3.6.1.


680689 (gnome-settings-daemon) power: enforcing lid close

If you are using systemd >= 183, gnome-settings-daemon is now talking
to logind for suspend and lid-close handling. Due to the way the
logind API uses polkit, this can sometimes lead to a polkit
authentication dialog in response to a suspend request - which is
problematic when you just closed the lid. The policy which controls
when this occurs was made a little more forgiving in systemd 188, but
it can still happen.

With system 191, a new API was introduced that lets us avoid this
problem altogether, and bug 680689 has a patch to make use of this,
but it is too invasive to land for 3.6.0 at this point. If you are
shipping with systemd >= 191, you should consider using this patch.


684516 gdm-3.5.9x loses session selection UI after logout from gnome

This is a problem that occurs on systemd systems as well. Sometimes
session processes linger after the user logged out. logind reflects
this fact by putting such sessions into a 'closing' state. The login
screen gets its information about users with existing sessions from
the accountsservice, and does not offer session selection if it thinks
the user has an existing session to switch to. Until recently,
accountsservice did not ignore 'closing' sessions when reporting user
sessions. This problem is fixed in accountsservice 0.6.25.