fallback and safe modes

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 19:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 07:00 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> > That is why we don't recommend installing extensions...
> > more seriously, 'one of them has a bug' is a little to generic to be
> > useful. What kind of problem did you encounter, and how did the shell
> > fail to work ?
> 
> Perhaps it wasn't clear but I was talking about providing a generic
> functionality that allows a user to quickly disable all extensions in
> case one of them has a bug or something is broken and user wants to
> ensure that it is not because of one of the extensions akin to how
> Firefox has a safe made option.    I wasn't referring to any specific bug. 

rpm -e gnome-shell-extensions is such a mechanism.