Debian 10 should be delayed to incorporate GNOME 3.32

[kcbagr]

According to this Phoronix article (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page= ... al-Scaling) GNOME 3.32 will finally have fractional scaling. I have continually put off buying new laptops because modern resolutions are unusable without fractional scaling. Which has made Linux a painful OS to deal with when the hardware is within the last few years. Having to wait 2 more years (Debian 11) to gain this fundamental capability is hard to bare. I'll have to temporarily switch to Ubuntu, which I don't want to do but fractional scaling is a MUST to even be able to use the computer.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I'll have to temporarily switch to Ubuntu

Nobody here cares which operating system you use.

The release schedule has already been announced:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a ... 00008.html

The full freeze starts in 10 days...

[GarryRicketson]

Honestly, some people, I mean you don't really even need Gnome, so Why delay the next release ?, just to please some one that thinks they must have Gnome, and fractional scaling , some thing I have never heard of. My modern system, with WM seems to work fine with out it, so I just don't see how it is so essential.
But any way, if Ubuntu is more suited to your needs , then by all means use that, I certainly don't care what OS someone else uses,... something smells like it just crawled out from under a bridge,

[Head_on_a_Stick]

you don't really even need Gnome

I don't need curry but I really want it

Anyway sid is only on v3.22 at the moment and updates are infrequent during the freeze so we would have to wait a pretty long time for 3.32...

@OP: have you tried Arch? They have a [gnome-unstable] repository that always receives the latest version.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/of ... e-unstable

[stevepusser]

Enlightment in Buster (or backported in select repositories) has had fractional scaling for a while now...

[Wheelerof4te]

Anyway sid is only on v3.22 at the moment and updates are infrequent during the freeze so we would have to wait a pretty long time for 3.32...

What, is this sarcasm?
Sid is on v3.30, the latest. Same as Buster.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Sid is on v3.30, the latest. Same as Buster.

Is it?

Thanks for the correction.

[pylkko]

I think we can all be happy and enjoy the fact that debian will never change plans for release based on anything anyone posts here nor on what minorities like laptop users think. Thank god.

[Hallvor]

[...] fractional scaling is a MUST to even be able to use the computer.

Oh my god! You must notify the Debian developers immediately to delay the release.

[sunrat]

Most other DEs support fractional scaling already. I use KDE Plasma 5 and it works excellently.
If you must use Gnome, you can jump through a few hoops and hack some sort of implementation - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hi ... al_Scaling

But as others have said, Buster will have 3.30. It's already frozen. You can blame the Gnome devs for being behind the status quo.