On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:53:07AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > Since extensions aren't (in general) shipped by Fedora, we have only a > limited ability to make requirements about them. The GNOME behavior > (unless overridden by an hidden gsetting) is that extensions are assumed > *NOT* to work with new versions of GNOME unless explicitly marked as > such. So what happens, is that if you upgrade early to a new version of > GNOME, all your extensions might vanish, but you won't end up with a > broken desktop. I don't mean this in a high-drama way, but: there are several extensions which have become really ingrained in the way I use my GNOME desktop, and if they vanished, I would feel like my desktop were broken for me. So.... > GNOME extensions should definitely be doing better in various ways on > upgrades: > > - Having a test image available to authors and easy ways to deploy > extensions into that image running into a VM; the author shouldn't > have to set up a devel environment inside the VM. > - Mailing extension authors as soon as the next version of GNOME is > frozen with instructions for testing. > - Actively reach out to authors of the most popular extensions and > try to make sure that we have them covered. > - And actually have extension upgrade integration into the desktop > > Unfortunately, right now, there's nobody working on any of this. a huge vote for all of this. It's really important for a non-scary Fedora Workstatation upgrade experience. If we can find someone to work on this, I think it will pay off. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
