Re: GNOME Shell Extensions 3.34.0

[Marcel <mlautenb gmail com>]

Doesn't it more depend on the distribution one uses? I mean, when gnome is released it takes a while for 
Debian to put it in the stable release. And even when using the unstable release, it will take some time. And 
when finally all packages are there, I personally never had problems. That being said, if someone uses 
distributions like Arch, then I think it is not much work to use extensions as fresh as they are directly 
from the developers repository. extensions.gnome.org is in my respect similar to the stable release from 
Gnome. It takes time to make sure everything has been reviewed.

Cheers,
Marcel

On 9/10/19 9:50 PM, Jason DeRose wrote:
> As an extension developer, I don't think it's necessarily fair to burden the GNOME team with building a 
> wrapper API and maintaining backwards compatibility forever. Even if this did come to fruition, it would 
> likely end up too narrow in scope to give extensions the flexibility they enjoy now by being able to override 
> basically any behavior in the shell.
>
> That said, it is extremely frustrating that there is no possible way to fix and release an extension on 
> extensions.gnome.org before a new GNOME release occurs. Breaking changes are made literally up until the 
> Release Candidate is generated, and the extension review queue may sit untouched for months (which is a major 
> problem itself). A week or two should be built into the timeline for extension developers to release an 
> updated version to e.g.o., and then the extension review queue should be cleared before the new version is 
> released.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, at 3:23 PM, Leslie S Satenstein via gnome-shell-list wrote:
> > Sadly, from one Gnome version or subversion to another, with each change, the majority of extensions are broken, and 
> > *"Florian Müllner", *that includes the ones you wrote. Many people are abandoning Gnome, simply because their 
> > favorite extensions no longer work.
> >
> > I have a deep appreciation of the application development process and the QA that is needed. May I propose or 
> > suggest that there be an a new standardized interface for gnome extensions, an extension api, which will be 
> > responsible backend for the interfacing to the various gnome versions? This api to be providing a consistent 
> > interface for extension developers. My two favourite broken extensions are your menu extension and the 
> > Taskbar extension which works partially with Tumbleweed, fully with Centos, and not at all with recent 
> > Fedora's version 30 or any Linux Distribution using a Gnome version beyond 3.32.
> >
> > Regards
> > *
> >   Leslie*
> > *Leslie Satenstein***
> > *Montréal Québec, Canada*
> > ****
>
>
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