More freeze break requests for gnome-shell

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

Hey everyone!

Tarballs are almost due (hi Michael!), but there are still a couple of 
things we would like to include.

I hope bundling the requests in a single mail is OK:

1. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1068

  We currently crash on startup if any of the top-icons extensions is 
enabled.
  The merge request that addresses the issue is not overly complex, 
but still
  beyond a trivial one line fix.

  However I'd still argue that it is preferable to land, as:

  - it has been confirmed to fix the crash, and not crashing is 
clearly an improvement
  - all code changes are limited to our legacy status icon support, so 
it's perfectly
    safe for everyone who is *not* using any of those extensions

2. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1069

  ibus support is currently broken in the Xorg session. The fix is a 
trivial one-liner
  ("do in the xorg session what we are already doing for xwayland")

3. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1065

  If gnome-settings-daemon's xsettings service fails to start, we 
currently end up without
  X11 support in the wayland session. The fix is again trivial (don't 
treat gsd-xsettings
  failure as fatal for Xwayland startup)

4. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1110

  On multi-monitor systems, popup windows may pop up on the wrong 
monitor (or completely
  off-screen). The fix should be easy and safe.


5. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1074

   Two small additions to the Extensions D-Bus API. Those are pure 
additions, so they have
   no effect on any existing users of the API (like the "new" 
Extensions app, the browser
   integration or Tweaks).

   The reason for wanting this in 3.36.0 is that I want to improve(*) 
on the Extensions app
   in 3.36.1 (and ultimately make it available on Flathub), but it 
feels wrong to add new API
   in a stable release and rely on it.

   (*) all under-the-hood: No UI or string changes

6. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1063

  This is a simple request from Ubuntu for a small improvement for 
session modes (non-default
  GNOME-based sessions like "Ubuntu" or "Classic").

  Similar to the above, the reason why I want this in 3.36.0 is that 
landing it in 3.36.1 would
  open the potential for session modes that are supposed to work on 
"3.36", but fail with 3.36.0.

  On the other hand it would be sad to delay the improvement for a 
whole six months.


Those are the important ones in my opinion. There are a couple more 
nice-to-have issues that are low-impact, but have trivial and safe 
patches available:

7. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1071

  Settings now has a dedicated "Location Services" panel, but the 
location submenu
  in the shell's top-right menu still launches the "Privacy" panel.

8. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1059

  The title of app folders in the overview is hard to read when using 
the light theme variant
  (like Ubuntu does). Not an issue as far as upstream is concerned, 
but the fix is trivial
  and safe

9. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1057

  The drag handles of the volume/brightness sliders has a small 
graphical glitch
  at 0; this was supposed to be addressed in 3.35.92, but there's 
still a minor
  glitch left. Again not the end of the world, but the fix is trivial 
and safe
  (it's effectively a one-line fix, although the patch hides that a 
bit by renaming
  a variable)


Apologies for that late flood of requests (they have been piling up 
until earlier today).

Regards,
Florian