smoldesu 2 years ago

This is neat, but it's a massive shame the GNOME developers abandoned the idea of a proper extension API. Something this trivial should not be a Mutter patch. This should be something you can apply as a user and have working immediately, ideally without a compositor restart even.

It felt like death by a thousand papercuts staying on GNOME during the v40 transition/update/overhaul. Seeing stuff like this ultimately just bums me out, it ultimately amounts to the user fighting the developers which should not be a problem with an open source project!

  • circo 2 years ago

    And even the updates between 40-41-42 killed some extensions, especially shell related exts/themes.

    • smoldesu 2 years ago

      Especially incremental updates. It already blew my mind that they broke the API so frequently with GNOME 3, the fact that they're still abusing extension developers like that in 2022 is unfathomable.

      • mikhailt 2 years ago

        It’s one of the reasons I don’t look forward to upgrading my Linux install at all.

        Arc menu, emoji picker, Dock extensions were something I used a lot and had to wait a while before they were compatible with certain Gnome versions. Emoji picker still isn’t, had to switch to Smile the flatpak package to make it work.

  • hactually 2 years ago

    The thing with this is it's patching mutter, the window manager. Not shell which focuses on the extension stuff.

    This is the equivalent of patching Quartz on MacOS to change behaviour.

    • smoldesu 2 years ago

      That doesn't really matter, my point still stands: GNOME is responsible for developing Mutter, if it doesn't have an extension API then it's still their fault.

hactually 2 years ago

I really like this, lots of work.

The standardization on libadawaita feels like it'll help reduce the weird edge cases -- good looking future for Gnome

encryptluks2 2 years ago

Is the point of rounded corners just cause? I don't see any benefit to them.

  • FastMonkey 2 years ago

    I don't like them myself, but some people think it helps the edges of windows and buttons stand out better.

  • TingPing 2 years ago

    What did you expect, its of course just aesthetic.