[Backport release-25.11] Gnome updates 2026-02-14#495324
[Backport release-25.11] Gnome updates 2026-02-14#495324axodentally wants to merge 32 commits intoNixOS:release-25.11from
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit b90b0db)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/-/compare/3.12.8.1...3.12.8.2 (cherry picked from commit 975411a)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/-/compare/3.12.8.2...3.12.9 (cherry picked from commit 7f3bca8)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/compare/49.0...49.1 (cherry picked from commit 9121ec4)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit f906295)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit a5fd3a2)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-/compare/49.3...49.4 (cherry picked from commit 1af54a3)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit 6770128)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/compare/49.3...49.4 (cherry picked from commit d09e32a)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/compare/49.3...49.4 (cherry picked from commit a17fff3)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gthumb/-/compare/3.12.9...3.12.10 (cherry picked from commit 1d0607f)
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-desktop/-/compare/44.4...44.5 (cherry picked from commit 3075e60)
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Add `webkitgtk_6_0` typelib needed by `gnome-shell-portal-helper`.
When NetworkManager connectivity check is enabled, GNOME will pop up a notification when a captive portal is detected. Clicking the notification _should_ launch a WebKit browser window allowing you to log in to the network. Without including the typelib, this fails with the following error in the journal: `JS ERROR: Error: Requiring WebKit, version 6.0: Typelib file for namespace 'WebKit', version '6.0' not found`.
You can enable NetworkManager connectivity checks with the following NixOS config:
```nix
networking = {
networkmanager = {
enable = true;
settings = {
connectivity = {
enabled = true;
uri = "http://nmcheck.gnome.org/check_network_status.txt";
interval = 300;
};
};
};
};
```
To test this, you need to connect to a public WiFi that requires clicking through a log in page or simulate a captive portal in some other way. You can also test launching the authentication window directly with a script similar to the following. This will not work prior to the fix.
```bash
gdbus call --session \
--dest org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper \
--object-path /org/gnome/Shell/PortalHelper \
--method org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.Close \
"/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1"
gdbus call --session \
--dest org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper \
--object-path /org/gnome/Shell/PortalHelper \
--method org.gnome.Shell.PortalHelper.Authenticate \
"/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1" \
"http://example.com" \
0
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/compare/49.3...49.4 (cherry picked from commit a39e018)
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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/gnome-release-strategy-for-nixos-stable/74887/5 |
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Friendly asking if you could review this PR @bobby285271 @jtojnar @dasj19 of the GNOME team :) Especially the mutter 49.3 update contains important fixes for GNOME's fractional scaling and an annoying bug with a second monitor attached, namely:
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Kindly asking again if you could review this backport? or maybe also @limwa or @lasandell, since you authored some of the commits to master. |
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Can confirm that my fix #485764 works on this branch. Not sure about the others. |
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Hi there! Sorry for the delay. My commit (9603966) is not needed for 25.11 because 25.11 is still using wireplumber 0.5.12 (https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=wireplumber) and the bug only happens with wireplumber 0.5.13. But if you need to cherry-pick it to make the bot happy, I don't see a problem with it! EDIT: another thing I noticed is that you didn't cherry-pick the changes I made to the gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center. Is there any specific reason for this? |
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@limwa, I did not know that the problem was connected to the newer wireplumber version, I think I just tried backporting all the changes from master, that made sense to me by reading the commit message. But I seem to have overlooked the other two commits of that PR. Personally I would say backporting those is still better, even when not relevant, just to be consistent with the master branch. But I am open to other opinions! |
(cherry picked from commit 0584948)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/compare/49.2.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit b9bc1d2)
(cherry picked from commit 1ea5d23)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/compare/49.3...49.4 (cherry picked from commit fb39dd0)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/compare/49.4...49.5 (cherry picked from commit b8b165d)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit f9c1f80)
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/compare/49.0.1...49.1 (cherry picked from commit c441227)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/compare/47.0...49.1 (cherry picked from commit 30116f6)
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/loupe/-/compare/49.1...49.2 (cherry picked from commit 6f44917)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libshumate/-/compare/1.5.1...1.5.2 (cherry picked from commit d6be5b6)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap/-/compare/17.0.0...17.0.1 (cherry picked from commit 375af31)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/compare/3.58.0...3.58.1 (cherry picked from commit 88c66e5)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-sudoku/-/compare/49.2...49.3 (cherry picked from commit 5d62355)
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further added another PR, restructured the initial message to make reading easier and added individual backporting PRs for everything included here, so that they can also be applied individually instead. |
I don't really have an opinion on that, so I'll defer to the nixpkgs GNOME maintainers or to the committer that ends up merging this PR |
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I could cherry-pick everything cleanly, except for
libglycinfrom the latest 2026-02-14 updates, since much has changed for the package (see history: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master/pkgs/by-name/li/libglycin/package.nix) and since this commit: df85a0c libglycin uses the gnome tarball as source instead of the gitlab.I thought, backporting this change is not the idea of unstable/stable branch, and therefore I just updated the version with my own commit. Looking forward to feedback on this! Using nixpkgs-review I was able to build libglycin and loupe (which uses libglycin as a dependency) and tested its functionality, so it does work.
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passthru.tests.nixpkgs-reviewon this PR. See nixpkgs-review usage../result/bin/.=> only of gnome papers and loupe