We can let the download operation beging and just error out if
something goes wrong. AFAIK, there's no need to check the connection
state before doing anything here.

This version has been ported to libsoup3.

Michael Catanzaro authored Jun 24, 2022 and Felipe Borges committed Jul 01, 2022

We are trying to remove the libsoup 2 build of WebKitGTK for the GNOME
43.alpha release. Since Boxes depends on WebKitGTK, this means it must
either port to libsoup 3 or else drop either the WebKitGTK dependency
or the libsoup dependency. Porting to libsoup 3 seems easy enough.

Note this will crash at runtime if linked to anything that uses libsoup
2. Building libosinfo with libsoup 3 is therefore mandatory.

Fixes #809

After this conversation on Twitter https://twitter.com/wjjjjt/status/1539985014368223234
I concluded that there are better tools to be used than what I wrote.

The logo use-authorization messages are now on the same repository
where the logos are hosted
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes-logos/-/blob/master/README.md

This was causing confusion for those attempting to add new distro
logos.

We no longer support running Boxes without SPICE.

The same with VNC. We are no longer in the business of supporting
multiple remoting protocols.

There were stakeholders that wanted us to pursue a route where Boxes
could work without SPICE. For this reason the VNC display was kept
around and offered as a fallback for when SPICE is not available in
the build environment.

As of now we have decided that Boxes should be a single display
protocol tool for simplicity, and that SPICE should be only removed
when there's a drop-in replacement with feature parity.

I really don't want to go down the route of supporting multiple
protocols again.

Flatpaked Boxes allows for calling GNOME Control Center when the user doesn't
grant permissions for the Boxes to run in the background (after closing
the window) when a VM is marked to "Run in background". This is useful because
the Applications panel in gnome-control-center allows for reseting the
flatpak app permissions.

Ever since commit gnome-control-center@acd59aec, the gnome-control-center
app id got renamed to org.gnome.Settings.

With this changes, Boxes will attempt to activate org.gnome.Settings over
DBus and fallback to the old org.gnome.ControlCenter when the first fails.

Fixes #787

Sam Ezeh authored Jun 24, 2022 and Felipe Borges committed Jun 24, 2022

Resolves #806

gnomeboxes.org redirects to https://apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.Boxes
which is the best landing page for users to find info about using
and contributing to Boxes. This also has better SEO.

I registered the gnomeboxes.org domain in gandi.net using my
felipeborges@gnome.org account, meaning that in case of a bus factor
situation the GNOME sysadmins should be capable of recovering the
domain.

Fixes #804

When native virtualization isn't available we use qemu emulation,
which doesn't work with the host-passthrough CPU mode.

Without this, Boxes can't create VMs for hosts that don't support
KVM based virtualization.

This is a regression introduced by !511.

Fixes #796

This way the Preferences dialog can simply bind to the LibvirtMachine
"name" property to keep the name entry synced with the backend.

This fixes the issue where users are unable to rename the VM in the
new Preferences dialog, since the name changes weren't properly
getting reflected on the backend side.

Fixes #792

For unstable Flatpak builds the appid changes to BoxesDevel. We
were already setting the appid configuration in meson but not
using the variable in the appdata file.

Philipp Kiemle authored May 20, 2022 and Administrator committed May 20, 2022

(cherry picked from commit 20eb5d27)

Arch Linux now has an official iso in osinfo-db.

https://gitlab.com/libosinfo/osinfo-db/-/merge_requests/444

Signed-off-by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@archlinux.org>

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Initiatives/-/wikis/Dark-Style-Preference

Fixes #788

Our Machine.set_screenshot method already implements some nice
heuristic to polish the display screenshot for thumbnails.

Jean-Marc Tissières authored Apr 23, 2022 and Administrator committed Apr 23, 2022

(cherry picked from commit 9c99a333)

Christian Kirbach authored Apr 21, 2022 and Administrator committed Apr 21, 2022

(cherry picked from commit 6373c258)

Bruce Cowan authored Apr 20, 2022 and Administrator committed Apr 20, 2022

(cherry picked from commit 53d2ef9f)

Rafael Fontenelle authored Apr 16, 2022 and Administrator committed Apr 16, 2022

(cherry picked from commit 3074ff74)