--- title: Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018 description: 'Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks.  This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered.  We’ve reworked […]' url: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-weekly-update-january-22-2018?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Will Cooke](https://canonical.com/blog/author/willcooke "More about Will Cooke") 22 January 2018 # Ubuntu Desktop weekly update – 22 January 2018 [GNOME](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/gnome) [LibreOffice](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/libreoffice) [Snaps](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/snaps) [Ubuntu Desktop](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-desktop) --- Share the article Here’s an update on what we’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks: ## GNOME We’ve been working on a patch for udisks to hide snaps from applications such as GNOME’s Disks.  This will hide all loop devices, including installed snaps, from disk management utilities making it less confusing and less cluttered.  We’ve reworked the patches a couple of times to align with the upstream developers suggestions and are still working on a few bugs.  We hope that this will be merged [upstream](https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/pull/460) soon. There is a [bug](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1716432) where window titles are not correctly aligned when you have the dash-to-dock extension installed and the dock visible.  We’ve [upstreamed](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792354) a fix and are working with the GNOME team to agree the best route forward. We’ve also been working with GNOME’s design team on some new sound options for Settings and Tweaks to add support for increasing the volume level above 100%. ## Theme Developers have been very busy on the community driven theme and it’s looking really sharp!  You can follow along on the community [hub.](https://community.ubuntu.com/t/mockups-new-design-discussions/1898/174?u=willcooke)  Massive thanks to everyone working on the community theme.  Keep an eye out for Didier’s blog post to get a good view of what’s coming.  We’ve also been working on the tidy up of the existing theme with input from the Canonical design team, the community theme developers and Canonical developers.  You can see the issues that are being addressed [here](https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/desktop-design/issues/). Elsewhere in the GNOME stack we’ve been working on a bug where Wayland apps became [unresponsive to mouse clicks](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1739625) and done work to improve the [responsiveness of touchpads](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1696929). ## Updates BlueZ 5.48 has been updated and is in a [PPA](https://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive/ubuntu/bluez) for testing. The LibreOffice snap is updated to 5.4.4.  Please [test](https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/call-for-testing-libreoffice-5-4-4/3542) and give us your feedback. ## General We’ve started our investigation in to boot speed and are using systemd’s features to do some profiling.  This will help us to identify and bottlenecks and get Bionic to boot as quickly as we can. We’ve found and fixed an issue in Network Manager’s connectivity checker [packaging](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1742403). We’re continuing work on moving the user session over to systemd. ## Printing Cups-filters 1.19.0 was released.  This has taken over all new functionality from the driverless PPD generator of CUPS to the one in cups-filters, fixing color space/color depth determination in PPD generator.  And in cups a bug has been fixed to resolve 16-bit high color depth in Apple Raster (AirPrint printers, most common driverless printing type). ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). 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