On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, 7:29 AM Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
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On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 3:31 PM Christian Schaller cschalle@redhat.com wrote:
The general problem with this is that everyone got their own set of
'can't
live without' extensions.he general problem with this is that everyone
got
their own set of 'can't live without' extensions. For example I know that Linus Torvalds got 3 GNOME Shell extensions he feels he can't live without.
And I think that trying to add a generic 'add any extensions you want'
UI
to the installer seems like the wrong thing to do and adding a lot of 'risk' and complexity to the installer, especially as we have been wanting to streamline the installer experience, not
expand
it.
Finally if we succeed in continuously improving our upgrade experience
the
amount of times you or anyone else should need to do a fresh install and thus lose your extensions should hopefully be quickly diminishing.
Christian
Hi Christian,
Doesn't the upgrade scenario imply a "no-regression" on the part of GS extensions? Is this something we we can really claim, given that mutter (or whatever the GNOME compositor will be called), sooner or later, is going to have
to
move to the gsk?
It won't, that's why it has its own copy of clutter included.
Hi Bastien,
I appreciate the response on this matter. To be clear, we don't expect GS extension breakage at least until the following stable release (GNOME 4, so, 2-3 years following the upcoming 3.24 release)?
Best/Liam