--- title: Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 23, 2018 description: GNOME We’ve been working on a GNOME Online Accounts plugin for Ubuntu One. This will allow you to manage your U1 credentials and share them with services which need them, for example Canonical LivePatch. A MR is being proposed upstream. A bug has been fixed which caused some high contrast icons to be missing in […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-february-23-2018 --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Will Cooke](https://canonical.com/blog/author/willcooke "More about Will Cooke") 23 February 2018 # Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – February 23, 2018 --- Share the article ## GNOME * We’ve been working on a GNOME Online Accounts plugin for Ubuntu One. This will allow you to manage your U1 credentials and share them with services which need them, for example Canonical LivePatch. A MR is being proposed upstream. * A [bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-themes-standard/+bug/1644662) has been fixed which caused some high contrast icons to be missing in System Settings. * A fix for centering the date alignment in GNOME Shell has been [merged](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/12) upstream. And we’ve got an upstream review for the work to allow the volume to to amplified above 100%. * There was a [regression](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105013) in the video acceleration work which caused corruption. This has been bisected and now fixed upstream. * GNOME Shell performance with two monitors has had some more [work](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/issues/3) done and should be fixed soon. * Alexander Larsson and James Henstridge have been working on bringing snap support to portals. This work is happening upstream and making good progress. You can read more [here](https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/02/14/moving-a-portal/). The associated work in snapd is [here.](https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/compare/master...jhenstridge:xdg-desktop-portal-support) * In our team meeting this week we decided not to ship tracker by default in 18.04 but will look to enable it in 18.10. You can read more about what Tracker is and does [here](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker). * GNOME Software in Bionic has [support](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/3.27.90-1ubuntu1) for snap channels now. ## General * The daily Bionic ISOs now feature a seeded snap (GNOME Calculator) in place of the deb. This is an early test to help us iron out the bugs before we look to move more applications to snaps in the final release. * Network Manager 1.10 is now in Bionic proposed. Initial testing looks good, but if you find any problems please [log a bug](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager). * We’ve refreshed the [patches](https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294) to enable hardware accelerated video playback in Chromium. We will distro patch this until such time as it lands upstream. * We’ve also been doing work to better support the onscreen keyboard in Chromium under GNOME Shell, and you can test that work [here](https://launchpad.net/~osomon/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-osk/+packages). * We’ve landed some [improvements](https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/bamf/snap-exec-matching-fix) to BAMF to better match snap applications under Unity 7. * BlueZ 5.48 has [landed](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1747354) in Bionic. * Support for themes in snaps is progressing well. You can read more about that work [here](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/supporting-desktop-themes-via-the-content-interface/4122). ## Updates * Chromium + Updated stable to 64.0.3282.167 + Updated beta to 65.0.3325.73 * LibreOffice 6.0.1.1 is available in stable channel now. And 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10 all have a number of security updates. * A stack of GNOME 3.27 updates have landed in Bionic. This includes things like gnome-keyring, gnome-desktop, gjs, evince, devhelp, dconf-editor, gnome-online-accounts, gvfs, orca screen reader and some games. This is all in preparation for the move to GNOME 3.28 for release. * Webkitgtk 2.19 has also landed. As always, you can comment or discuss any of these changes on the [Community Hub](https://community.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-weekly-newsletter-23-february-2018/4247?u=willcooke). 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