Mutter 3.33.4

About mutter
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Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages
your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display
engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic
inherited from the Metacity window manager.

While Mutter can be used stand-alone, it is primarily intended to be
used as the display core of a larger system such as GNOME Shell. For
this reason, Mutter is very extensible via plugins, which are used
both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window management
behaviors to meet the needs of the environment.

News
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* Discard page flip retries on hotplug [Jonas; !630]
* Add xdg-output v2 support [Olivier; #645]
* Restore DRM format fallbacks [Jonas; !662]
* Don't emit ::size-changed when only position changed [Daniel; !568]
* Expose workspace layout properties [Florian; !618]
* Don't use grab modifiers when shortcuts are inhibited [Olivier; #642]
* Fix stuttering due to unchanged power save mode notifications [Georges; !674]
* Add API to reorder workspaces [Adam; !670]
* Make picking a new focus window more reliable [Marco; !669]
* Defer actor allocation till shown [Carlos; !677]
* Try to use primary GPU for copy instead of glReadPixels [Pekka; !615]
* Unset pointer focus when the cursor is hidden [Jonas D.; !448]
* Fix modifier-drag on wayland subsurfaces [Robert; !604]
* Fix background corruption on Nvidia after resuming from suspend [Daniel; !600]
* Only grab the locate-pointer key when necessary [Olivier; !685, #647]
* Misc. bug fixes and cleanups [Florian, Jonas, Daniel, Robert, Olivier,
  Georges, Marco, Carlos, Emmanuele; !648, !650, !647, !656, !658, !637,
  !663, !660, !659, !665, !666, !668, !667, #667, !676, !678, #672, !680,
  !683, !688, !689, !687]

Contributors:
  Jonas Ådahl, Emmanuele Bassi, Adam Bieńkowski, Piotr Drąg, Jonas Dreßler,
  Olivier Fourdan, Carlos Garnacho, Robert Mader, Florian Müllner,
  Georges Basile Stavracas Neto, Pekka Paalanen, Marco Trevisan (Treviño),
  Daniel van Vugt

Translators:
  Fabio Tomat [fur], Kukuh Syafaat [id]

KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 80

Somehow we’ve gone through 80 weeks of progress reports for KDE’s Usability & Productivity initiative! Does that seem like a lot to you? Because it seems like a lot to me. Speaking of a lot, features are now pouring in for KDE’s Plasma 5.17 release, as well as Applications 19.08. Even more is lined up for Applications 19.12 too, which promises to be quite a release.

Android Leftovers

• Google Assistant Ambient Mode shows hidden Android Q clock face

• Android Q Beta 5 reportedly brings Google Pixel 2 XL network connectivity issues

• Turkish manufacturer distributes software image from XDA Forums for its own Android Q beta program

• This is apparently a Nokia feature phone running Android

• 'Android-powered' Nokia feature phone gets leaked, but it's probably running KaiOS

• Nokia feature phone powered by Android seen in leaked image

• Nokia-Branded Android Feature Phone Coming Soon? Leaked Image Claims to Offer First Look

• Nokia 1, Nokia 3.1 Plus start receiving July 2019 Android security updates

• iPhone loyalty drops to lowest level in years with 1-in-4 switching to Android

• How to restrict Google's data collection on your Android smartphone

IBM Announcements

• IBM Announces Data Asset eXchange (DAX) To Help Developers Use Open Data Alongside AI

  Tech behemoth IBM has been progressively working in the field of AI and has made several contributions in this domain. The researchers at IBM are continuously trying to detangle the unknown knots behind artificial intelligence. Recently at Oscon 2019, Data Asset eXchange (DAX) was launched by IBM. DAX is basically an online centre which is built for artificial intelligence developers and data scientists and contains organised datasets under open data license.

• IBM launches open ML dataset hub curated for the enterprise

  IBM on Tuesday launched the IBM Data Asset eXchange (DAX), a repository of free and open datasets for machine learning. While there are plenty of options online for finding open datasets, IBM says DAX is uniquely curated for the enterprise.

• IBM Open Sources 3 Kubernetes Projects: Launches ML Dataset Hub

• IBM Launches Trio of Kubernetes-Focused Open Source Projects

  IBM unveiled a trio of new open source projects targeted at helping developers more quickly build cloud-native applications for Kubernetes. The moves come on the heels of the company closing its $34 billion acquisition of open source powerhouse Red Hat. The new projects are Codewind, Appsody, and Kabanero. Appsody uses components from Codewind, while Kabanero uses components from both Codewind and Appsody. Codewind provides extensions to integrated development environments (IDEs) like VS Code, Eclipse, and Eclipse Che to build applications in containers. It allows developers to iterate, debug, and performance test applications inside of containers similar to how those applications run in a production environment. IBM said that this essentially allows developers to build applications in containers without knowing they are working in containers.

• IBM Launches Data Asset eXchange (Dax) to Help Developers Use Free and Open Data and AI

  The online hub is created to meet the needs of those developers, who adopt ML models, and need open data that they can use confidently under clearly defined open data licenses

• IBM Unveils New Open Source Projects; to Build Cloud-Native Apps Faster for Kubernetes

  To lower the barriers of entry for developers to use Kubernetes and to bring together different disciplines, IBM has created new open source projects Kabanero, Appsody, and Codewind—that make it faster and easier to develop and deploy applications for Kubernetes

• IBM open-sources Kabanero tools for collaborating on Kubernetes apps

• IBM unveils trio of open source Kubernetes projects, and not a Red Hat-trick in sight

• IBM Kabanero Melds Multiple Open Source Kubernetes Projects

• Developers: Build cloud-native apps for Kubernetes faster with these open source IBM tools

• IBM turns up the heat on open source Kubernetes with Kabenero project

• IBM reconfirms commitment to open source with two announcements

  Hot on the heels of acquiring Red Hat, IBM has made two announcements that reconfirm its commitment to open source.

• AT&T and IBM Collaborate on Open Source, Edge, SDN, IoT

  AT&T and IBM forged a new multi-year alliance that will blend IBM’s expertise in the enterprise with AT&T’s networking prowess. AT&T Business will become IBM’s primary provider of SDN and IBM will help AT&T improve and migrate its business applications to IBM Cloud. AT&T will also use Red Hat’s open source platform to manage workloads and collaborate with IBM on multi-cloud capabilities around 5G, edge computing, and IoT. AT&T’s expanded usage of Red Hat comes just a week after IBM finalized its $34 billion acquisition of the hybrid cloud provider, making it the first major partnership in the telco space since IBM gained control of Red Hat. Red Hat is an “integral part of today’s announcement” because AT&T can use the technology to convert its business applications with containers, microservices, and make those applications more portable, said Sid Nag, research vice president at Gartner. “AT&T’s always been a big proponent of open source.”