gnome-shell is wasting CPU repainting unchanging panels

See also upstream: https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/pull/675

This bug is on hold. The conditions required to trigger it are less common, and the benefit of fixing it less significant, than other performance bugs (also in progress right now).

gnome-shell (3.28.1-0ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * js-ui-Choose-some-actors-to-cache-on-the-GPU.patch:
    - Improve rendering of shell elements moving rendering to GPU
      (LP: #1744001)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Cherry-pick polkitAgent-Guard-against-repeated-close-calls.patch:
    - Fix PolicyKit authorization prompt after cancelling once (LP: #1765353)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:29:28 -0500

New upstream fix proposed for the Ubuntu dock:
https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/pull/859

gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (64ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * New upstream release: 64
  * dash, docking: remove Shell.GenericContainer.

  [ Adolfo Jayme Barrientos ]
  * Update Spanish translation.

  [ franglais125 ]
  * Settings.ui: Fix GtkEntry property to make the shortcut editable.

  [ Michele ]
  * Add Gnome Shell 3.30 support.
  * Bump version (v64).

  [ vantu5z ]
  * Update Russian translation.

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * docking: Fix leaking signal connection

  [ Michele Gaio ]
  * Update Readme with official extension badge.

  [ Michele ]
  * Add a .default class to the appiconindicators.
  * Make window previews order stable in the dedicated popup (LP: #1809129).
  * Recreate windows preview whenever the popup is open.

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Avoid repainting an unchanging dock.

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:06:26 -0500

The nominations are confusing here. Only the ubuntu-dock fix needs backporting. The gnome-shell fix is already in bionic onward.

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/0.9.1ubuntu18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock/0.9.1ubuntu18.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Confirmed ubuntu-dock 0.9.1ubuntu18.04.3 no longer shows any (additional) CPU penalty when a window is updating while touching or under the dock.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock - 0.9.1ubuntu18.04.3

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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (0.9.1ubuntu18.04.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel van Vugt ]
  * Avoid repainting an unchanging dock (LP: #1743976).

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * theming: Ensure _trackingWindows contains valid windows (LP: #1769383)
  * extension: Ensure signal disconnection (LP: #1769383)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:39:02 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.