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Extensions in GNOME 45 - New import system is not backwards compatible
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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I am a daily Gnome user. There are many things which I actually dislike about Gnome, but I have solved them all through extensions. Fine, I'm not bothered because it can be customized.
But every time they introduce something like this, it takes me a while to get a functional desktop back. It takes time for those extensions' developers to respond to these things. They have to research the change, implement it, test it, go through extra work to stay backward compatible, etc. These people aren't being paid for this, so it takes some time.
I'm just frustrated about this. I know someday I will run updates and suddenly find all my extensions broken.
I literally just moved to Gnome 44 from a long time Gnome 3 setup. I only found one extension that makes Gnome 4x feel usable the way gnome 3 was and that's v-shell. If v-shell breaks then I'm never moving to gnome 45.