Re: Discussion about GNOME extenstions experience on Fedora Workstation

[Ryan Lerch]

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 6 April 2017 at 00:54, Ryan Lerch <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  > Some of the Shell Extenstions from the GNOME website are available for
>  > download from the Software app in Fedora Workstation, but this only
>  seems to
>  > be a small selection of what is available.
>
>  There's an open bug about this; but basically it's because you're on a
>  prerelease gnome-shell and the shell extension site is give us a
>  subset of results. Fix in progress serverside.
>
>  > * Many of the GSES extenstions in Software don't have screenshots, and
>  their
>  > descriptions are pretty minimal. How can we work to make these better?
>
>  The ones from the extension site are pretty poor generally. After a
>  long period of not having an upstream maintainer we now have some
>  fresh blood so maybe we have some engineering resources to look at
>  this now.
>  
What's the best way for an individual to get involved here to help make
this data better?


>  > * A handful of the GSES ones that show in software are of questionable
>  use
>  > for Fedora Workstation. Such as:
>  > https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1139/apt-update-indicator/
>
>  Can you file this as an upstream bz against gnome-software please; we
>  should have a mechanism to "block" things that just don't work.
>  
Done, filed as:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781001


>  > * None of the extensions that are in the repos seem to be installable
>  from
>  > GNOME-Software. They just fail silently in the interface. For example in
>  > F26, i tried to install OpenWeather from the repos via Software, and it
>  > failed silently.
>
>  I'm away from my computer at the moment, but if you could open an
>  upstream bug with the --verbose trace I can have a look at it later.
>  
Done, and filed as:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781003

I also filed another that might be related:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781002

cheers,
ryanlerch


>  Richard
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