On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 06:02 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > * Shell extensions: As long as we're going to offer them, we
> > shouldn't
> > relegate them to Tweak Tool. Perhaps gnome-software would be a
> > better
> > location than gnome-control-center, but either would be better than
> > Tweak Tool. (But the gnome-shell browser plugin is very crashy at
> > worst and unreliable at best, so we should fix that first.)
>
> Extensions is what happens when designers and developers don't agree.
> If you know you want extensions, installing gnome-tweak-tool is only
> a
> step away. If people want to integrate that better, they can add
> support
> to the gnome-shell web browser plugin to show whether or not gnome
> -tweak-tool
> is installed, and launch Software to install it through the browser
> if not.
>
At the same time, I think it would be very useful to poll GNOME users
for what extensions they are using (if any). I think you'll find that
it's very likely that more users have installed (for example) the
Alternate Tab extension than are using the default behavior (and it
would also be interesting to know whether those using the default
behavior know about the extension).
Some other extensions that I personally know a great many people cannot
live without:
[...]
or hiding them entirely (Wayland) [...]
This is plain wrong. They work as bad/well on wayland as on X. The
only thing is there is no systray icon api for wayland applications.
Only X11 apps (through xwayland) can use them.