Pantheon 6.0.2

[bobby285271]

Motivation for this change

• elementary OS 6.0 Odin has been released on 10 August, 2021. Read the announcement.
• elementary OS 6.0.1 Odin has been released on 31 August, 2021. Read the announcement.
• elementary OS 6.0.2 Odin release cycle has started.
• Closes Update Pantheon to version 6 #121847.
• Closes Package wingpanel-indicator-a11y #83917.
• Closes Package elementary tasks #83916.
• Closes touchegg: 1.1.1 -> 2.0.8 #116393.
• Fixes io.elementary.camera when no camera is connected #100444.
• Fixes Pantheon screenshot glitch #120765.
• Fixes Pantheon: screenshots are darker when selecting the area #100434.

Related: release notes per package, 6.0 project board, 6.0.x / 6.1 project board.

Previous major updates

• Pantheon 5.1 (second set of updates etc.) #73781
• Pantheon 5.1 #69052
• pantheon: init at 5.0 #48637

Notable changes

• All Pantheon components have been bumped to their latest versions.
• Mutter and GNOME settings daemon used in Pantheon now defaults to 3.38.
• elementary-dpms-helper has been removed from nixpkgs.
• elementary-settings-daemon no longer points to ubuntu's patched g-s-d but elementary's own settings daemon.
• elementary-tasks, wingpanel-indicator-a11y and switchboard-plug-wacom are packaged.
• services.touchegg option is created and enabled by default for Pantheon gestures control.
• The default mail application has been changed from geary to elementary-mail.
• Upstream translations for all Pantheon components are now correctly loaded and displayed.

Known issues

• Downstream known issues.
• Upstream known issues.

How to test on NixOS

1. Clone the NixOS/nixpkgs repository and checkout to this PR, you can use the GitHub CLI tool gh.

$ gh repo clone NixOS/nixpkgs
$ cd nixpkgs
$ gh pr checkout 130380

2. Save the following NixOS configuration file as configuration.nix, you can save the file to any directory.

{ pkgs, config, ... }: {
  environment.enableDebugInfo = true;
  services.xserver = {
    enable = true;
    layout = "us";
    desktopManager.pantheon.enable = true;
    desktopManager.pantheon.debug = true;
  };

  users.mutableUsers = false;

  users.extraUsers.test = {
    isNormalUser = true;
    uid = 1000;
    extraGroups = [ "wheel" "networkmanager" ];
    password = "test";
  };
  nixpkgs.config.allowAliases = false;

  virtualisation.qemu.options = [ "-device intel-hda -device hda-duplex" ];
  virtualisation.memorySize = 4096;
  virtualisation.diskSize = 8192;
}

3. Run the following command to build the packages and create a virtual machine with the above configuration. Do not forget to adjust the path to the nixpkgs checkout (/path/to/nixpkgs) and the configuration (/path/to/configuration.nix). It will take some time to build the packages, so grab some coffee while waiting.

$ env NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=/path/to/nixpkgs:nixos-config=/path/to/configuration.nix nixos-rebuild build-vm

4. You should see a message like this, run the command provided by the output:

Done. The virtual machine can be started by running /nix/store/...-nixos-vm/bin/run-nixos-vm

5. A QEMU virtual machine will be launched, wait for LightDM to start and login with the password test.

6. Test the upgrade and comment here if you find anything wrong.

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
• Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
• Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 21.11 Release Notes (or backporting 21.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[bobby285271]

Need some suggestions, shall we replace geary with elementary-mail by default?

Update: Done in fa72a44f95e34948fa9cefca910e2f595cc3eefe

[davidak]

shall we replace geary with elementary-mail by default?

if that's what they ship, sure. i expect it to be usable then

[bobby285271]

Adding inter as a preinstalled font because of elementary/default-settings@57009a6

[bobby285271]

I think most packaging has been done, waiting for the final release of elementary OS 6. Some apps haven' t got a new release yet like elementary-screenshot-tool, I try to keep track of them and upgrade them when possible.

Also there are some apps that are upgrading frequently like elementary-music, planing to track them in this PR as well so I don' t need to create too many PRs.

[bobby285271]

Need some help with pantheon.switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell and pantheon.elementary-settings-daemon.

By running io.elementary.switchboard and then click "Destkop", the app will crash with:

(.io.elementary.switchboard-wrapped_:80072): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 19:05:14.917: Settings schema 'io.elementary.settings-daemon.prefers-color-scheme' is not installed
[1]    80072 trace trap (core dumped)  io.elementary.switchboard

Found a related issue elementary/switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell#243, and the problem seems to be elementary/settings-daemon. I found pkgs/desktops/pantheon/services/elementary-settings-daemon/default.nix but it seems to be a patched gnome-settings-daemon 3.34.1.

Update: I am pushing a workaround that is to rename the original pantheon.elementary-settings-daemon to gnome.gnome-settings-daemon334 and create another pantheon.elementary-settings-daemon package. Things look fine and the problem I mentioned was solved (but I don't know whether it will introduce other bugs or not), please comment here if you have any better ideas to handle this.

Update 2: Upgraded to gnome.gnome-settings-daemon336 gnome.gnome-settings-daemon338.

[bobby285271]

Rebased due to merge conflict in release note, hope this is the last force push (I think I have done ~150 force pushes here).

[davidak]

Result of nixpkgs-review pr 130380 run on x86_64-linux 1

2 packages failed to build:

• monitor
• nixos-install-tools

98 packages built:

• agenda
• akira-unstable
• appeditor
• bookworm
• cipher
• cozy
• elementary-planner
• ephemeral
• fondo
• formatter
• gnome.gnome-settings-daemon338
• gnome.mutter338
• gnonograms
• hashit
• ideogram
• khronos
• minder
• nasc
• notejot
• notes-up
• pantheon.appcenter
• pantheon.contractor
• pantheon.elementary-calculator
• pantheon.elementary-calendar
• pantheon.elementary-camera
• pantheon.elementary-capnet-assist
• pantheon.elementary-code
• pantheon.elementary-default-settings
• pantheon.elementary-dock
• pantheon.elementary-feedback
• pantheon.elementary-files
• pantheon.elementary-greeter
• pantheon.elementary-gsettings-schemas
• pantheon.elementary-gtk-theme
• pantheon.elementary-mail
• pantheon.elementary-music
• pantheon.elementary-notifications
• pantheon.elementary-onboarding
• pantheon.elementary-photos
• pantheon.elementary-screenshot
• pantheon.elementary-session-settings
• pantheon.elementary-settings-daemon
• pantheon.elementary-shortcut-overlay
• pantheon.elementary-tasks
• pantheon.elementary-terminal
• pantheon.elementary-videos
• pantheon.elementary-wallpapers
• pantheon.epiphany
• pantheon.gala
• pantheon.granite
• pantheon.notes-up
• pantheon.pantheon-agent-geoclue2
• pantheon.pantheon-agent-polkit
• pantheon.sideload
• pantheon.switchboard
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-a11y
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-about
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-applications
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-bluetooth
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-datetime
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-display
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-keyboard
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-network
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-notifications
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-onlineaccounts
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-pantheon-shell
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-power
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-printers
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-security-privacy
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-sharing
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-sound
• pantheon.switchboard-plug-wacom
• pantheon.switchboard-with-plugs
• pantheon.touchegg
• pantheon.wingpanel
• pantheon.wingpanel-applications-menu
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-a11y
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-bluetooth
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-datetime
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-keyboard
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-network
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-nightlight
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-notifications
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-power
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-session
• pantheon.wingpanel-indicator-sound
• pantheon.wingpanel-with-indicators
• ping
• regextester
• sequeler
• snippetpixie
• spice-up
• taxi
• tootle
• torrential
• touchegg
• vocal

[bobby285271]

If there are no other merge blockers, can I merge this once rebuild on my system finishes and the system works?

I am on NixOS 21.11.git.1b16dbeb557 now, looks good on my side :-)

@ofborg eval

[davidak]

Changes look good

Builds, works

I'm using this changes on my main system for about 2 months and all major issues are resolved. Further improvements can be made by new pull requests.

Thanks for this huge contribution @bobby285271! ✨

[davidak]

FYI: nixos-install-tools is not broken anymore in master. This PR did not break it.