On 07/31/2013 08:05 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
They understand that just fine and that is why the extension system
has
been created and dozens and dozens of extensions exist and are widely
used. Your fear about breakages are not realistic in recent releases.
From the next release, extensions are even auto-updated on demand so
there is even less reason to worry about them.
Well, the Gnome devs have said more than once that they won't try to
avoid breaking them. Have they changed their policy? In any event,
that's only one of several reasons I left Gnome, and not even the most
important one.