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Follow this issue for notifications of a new release or string freeze.

Translators: Starting from version 0.3, there will be a "string freeze" where no changes to strings will occur. This will be a period of five days or so, giving time for translators to update their language(s).

Packagers: Releases will also be announced here, in case you wish to package extension-manager for a format other than flatpak.

Release Checklist:

• Update Meson/About Dialog Version
• Update Appdata with new release
• Update screenshots if needed
• Notify about string freeze (five day period)
• Manually commit any pending changes in Weblate
• Tag new release
• Update Flathub

Release Test Plan:

• Install Extension
• Remove Extension
• Open Preferences
• Enable/Disable Extension
• Globally Toggle Extensions
• Access Detail Page
• Sort By Relevance/Downloads/Name/Recent
• Localisation

This would allow people to share their extension setups and migrate between different PCs easier.

Detect if there is an update available (via DBus) and prompt the user to update to the latest version.

Hi! Thanks for the app!

Any way for the application to support the system GTK theme?

It looks bad to me compared to the rest of the native apps =(

Is it possible to make the application compatible with the official ubuntu themes?

Hi,

would you mind giving a tutorial how to setup and install
this please, learning linux so it would greatly help me?

going to use fedora

Thankyou

When a category, e.g. system extensions, is empty it should be hidden instead of showing an empty GTKListBox

Extension Manager respects the system dark preference. As that's not going to be widely available until GNOME 42, let's add an in-app toggle as well. As an added benefit, it will let the user override the system preference if they wish.

There's a very good implementation of this in the new Text Editor app. Maybe we can reuse some of it? See: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor

When I want to install an extension and I go to the browse tab, the application crashes.

I tried to create a traceback and saw the following:

/usr/include/c++/11.2.0/string_view:233: constexpr const value_type& std::basic_string_view<_CharT, _Traits>::operator[](std::basic_string_view<_CharT, _Traits>::size_type) const [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; std::basic_string_view<_CharT, _Traits>::const_reference = const char&; std::basic_string_view<_CharT, _Traits>::size_type = long unsigned int]: Assertion '__pos < this->_M_len' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

I hope this helps somehow.

debug_extension.txt

The user should be able to view comments and extension ratings as part of the search results.

Displaying the comments will be quite tricky. We need a way to either render HTML or (ideally) convert it to Pango markup.

Investigate whether there is a way to display simple HTML markup without using webkit.

on openSUSE MicroOS (Desktop), if installed with SELinux enabled, the app does not start, and the following error is shown on the console:

cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied

Which seemed SELinux related. in /var/log/audit/audit.log I see:

type=AVC msg=audit(1643361322.448:108): avc: denied { execstack } for pid=2080 comm="extension-manag" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process permissive=0

I'm no SELinux expert, but I have a test system and can provide more information, if necessary, or run tests

It would be nice if the extensions would be ordered in some way. Alphabetically by their name would make the most sense I guess...

Some times I might not remember the name of the extension I want to change some settings of. So I have to scroll trough my list and look at the names. Then it would be very useful if I could sort the list such that all turned on extensions show first, instead of there being a mix of on and off extensions.

Hope that makes sense. Thanks for this fantastic application!

A catch-all issue for some improvements to the search page:

• Do not search on start up: Currently the application queries extensions.gnome.org for a search on startup regardless of whether the user is on the Browse page or not. Change this to run only when the browse page is loaded. This will require a rework of the main GUI. (#35)
• Add search progress indicator: When search is happening in the background, display a progress indicator (spinner) so the user is aware the application is still responsive. (#36)
• Show screenshots and extension icons (#3): Make searching more useful by displaying screenshots. These should be loaded "on-demand", either when the entry is expanded, or by moving search results to a separate page (i.e. like GNOME Software).
• Support filtering search results: Allow switching between "Top" and "New" (other categories are probably not relevant)
• Display shell version map: Show all supported versions of GNOME Shell
• Show reviews (#4): Show the review score of the extension and somehow display text reviews
• Type to search: Initiate a search when the user starts typing. Alternatively, grab focus for the search bar by default. (#137)

Just like the normal app. Helps to quickly see which extensions can be uninstalled from the app.

There is a bug in the list-view when browsing applications. The HTML-escaped names are not properly displayed.

Do know that they show up properly in the next screen

Application (version 0.2.2) doesn't remember it's size after reopening.

I know that most of the people here hate snaps, but at least in my eyes, snaps are better. Because they can be installed in any device including servers, Iots etc. So I would request you to create a snap version of this also. There is also a documentation of snaps by canonical, if u need. Thanks in advance.

Fun fact: Extension Manager now has nearly 4500 unique installs. This is a great milestone, but it also means 4000+ people are using the logo I created in less than 5 minutes :)

GNOME provides some excellent resources on creating compelling app icons. While the current icon is perfectly serviceable, I think the program has outgrown it. It would be nice to have a modern "GNOME-Style" icon which properly fits in with the rest of the desktop. Some goals to keep in mind:

• Try keep the puzzle piece metaphor. This is fairly universal in representing extensions.
• Continue to use a blue colour scheme. This is the main distinguishing factor against the official extensions app, and it's important to make sure they aren't too similar.

Help wanted - If you are good with design and would like to contribute, please get in touch!

We've been getting a lot of translations lately, which is fantastic.

It would be good to:

• Create a guide for contributing to localising extension-manager
• Decide on a policy for translatable strings (reuse where possible to minimise the burden on translators)
• Document how to update the POT template and PO files via meson

If you would like to translate extension-manager into your language, contributions are very welcome.

First of all, I'm not related to the Gnome project in any way (except using Gnome as my daily driver).

Recently, I leaned about Gnome Circle -> https://circle.gnome.org/
And as I found that your software is super useful and adds a lot to the functionality of Gnome, I think it deserves the attention that the initiative could give it.

I'm not sure if you were already aware of this but I just wanted to make sure you wont miss it.

We should display images when browsing through the available extensions.

This involves:

• Getting the screenshot and thumbnail URLs
• Downloading the images to memory with libsoup
• Performing downloads lazily so search results do not hang while waiting for images
• Only download screenshots when needed to minimise data usage

There is already a naive implementation of asynchronous image resolution in src/web/exm-image-resolver.c. This works for the most part, but seems to have issues with deadlocking.

Hi,

Since you are using libadwaita it makes sense to follow GNOME's design language more closely. Don't know how far ahead you thought about the design but here are my 2¢ about it. (I did see you posting on GNOME Shell's extension issue. So if you got contacted by a GNOME dev, just ignore me since they'll probably have their own design plans 😉)

My idea can be summarised as "Because your app is basically an extension store, you can just copy GNOME Software (instead of GNOME's extensions app)".

• I think you can unify the rows of the Installed and Browse page. Currently, the row of the Installed page expands to reveal the description, a 'See Details' and a remove button. The description isn't useful for extensions you already have installed because you likely know what you installed. So essientially you have a revealer for 2 buttons, which IMO isn't worth it. Also, that means the Details page is 2 clicks away. My suggestion: instead of an expander make the row always go to the details subpage.

• I think unifying the Installed and Browse page in general make sense. I. e. having a global search like a normal app store etc...

• Spacing between items is sometimes off. GNOME (unofficially) uses a multiples of 12, sometimes 6.

Here is a mockup I created to illustrate my ideas more clearly. I am not a designer so sometimes I was inconsistent when it comes to spacing, shadows and what not...

Allow "popping out" screenshots so the user can zoom in and see them in a larger size.

The appstream data (which determines what is displayed on GNOME Software and Flathub) is very barebones at the moment.

For the next update, fill out more fields:

• Description - Add more detail
• Developer
• Release description and changelog
• Update Contact

See: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Quickstart.html

Investigate GTK's support for Assistive Technologies: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/section-accessibility.html

Can we make Extension Manager friendly to screen readers (e.g. Orca)?

Currently the placeholder green extension icon is used for everything. We should dynamically load the correct icons from the internet and save them to some form of offline cache which persists between restarts (as to show them for installed extensions).

In the official extensions app (since version 40 I think?) you can search through installed extensions. Would be awesome if you could make something similar!

First of all: great app, thanks a lot - and congrats for the new release!

I'm a Mutter developer and thus run a development version of Mutter/Gnome-Shell most of the cycle as my daily driver - essentially dogfooding myself all the new features to help ensuring stability. As extensions usually only declare versions supported once a stable version was released, I have to run with /org/gnome/shell/disable-extension-version-validation enabled.
I'd love to use your app to try extensions from time to time, thus I'd like to humbly request to allow that if the setting above is set - maybe with some kind of visual warning.

The program should be able to poll for updates when the user logs in. The current behaviour as of #119 is to check for updates when the program is launched. To match the official extensions app, this will likely be enabled by default, with an option to turn it off.

when VPN with proxy is activated, it does not find any extensions:
debug_extension.txt

Version: 0.2.2
Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Gnome: 3.36.8
Flatpak 1.6.5
Font (not changed): Ubuntu Regular

Make the application available on flathub for ease of download. It has many other benefits like automatic updates, and should appear in GNOME Software for most users.

A few changes will need to be made for this:

• Use GNOME SDK 41 instead of nightly
• Bundle libadwaita as it is not present in the 41 SDK
• Bundle gtk as libadwaita needs GTK 4.6 and the 41 SDK only provides 4.4

Are there any other specific requirements for being distributable on flathub?

will there be any support for snap for ubuntu in future?

I discovered that installed but unsupported extensions, still have 'enable' toggles.

To reproduce this issue, you can manually install an extension or you could use another tool to install an older version.

In the header bar, though, it's referring to a plural name ("installed [extensions]") while in the button it's a singular ("[the extension is] installed"), so in languages like Italian where you conjugate also adjectives in one of the two circumstances the string is wrong. I don't know how to make localization, but would it maybe be possible to make a plural and singular form of the string for use in the header bar and in the button respectively?

That's a good question, I'm not too familiar with gettext either. Taking a look at the GLib documentation, we should be able to use the C_() macro to provide context to the string. So the header bar might be C_("Navigation", "Installed") and the button would be C_("State", "Installed") or something like that. I'll give it a try soon, it might need some changes to our gettext setup.

Originally posted by @mjakeman in #27 (comment)

Hiding unsupported extension would make installing extension quicker and make the UI cleaner especially when your search query resulted in almost all unsupported extension.

Hi. I have a problem with the application. I've installed it as 'system'. It runs well until I try to install any extension since nothing happens after pushing the install button.

Starting the application from a terminal, an error is listed which is:
"** (extension-manager:2): CRITICAL **: 01:00:47.977: GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dio_2derror_2dquark.Code36: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.Shell.DownloadInfoError: 6"

My system is Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with Gnome 3.36.8 under X11

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot and congratulations for this amazing application.

To make GNOME extensions more decentralised, maybe creating a way to self host your own GNOME extensions repository and be able to add it into the extension manager.

The gschema file is currently in our POTFILES for translation.

According to https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GSettings, this is wrong:

⚠️ There are several examples in the wild of projects that use .gschema.xml.in files. This is almost always wrong. You should absolutely never use intltool or itstool-based XML "translation merging" functionality with schema files. It is also typically unnecessary to use expansions such as @GETTEXT_PACKAGE@, as these things are not configurable by the user (and shouldn't be).

I installed development version of Ubuntu 22.04. I installedExtention-manager 0.2.2 from Flathub flatpak package.

This is feature request. Please move all of the Unsupported extensions at bottom of the list or say it differently first group by installation type:

• Install
• Installed
• Unsupported --> always at bottom

The normal extension app can do this. It's super helpful to debug extension issues.

The default extensions app has manually installed and system installed lists and inside the 2 lists the extensions are sorted by name.
IMHO there is no need for 2 lists. But the info if its systemwide installed could be shown in the list and also the list could be sorted alphabetically.

Currently, trying to download a shell extension that does not support your version of GNOME Shell will fail silently in the background. We should grey-out (or even filter-out) search results which are not installable.

Currently adding/updating translations has a non-trivial barrier to entry. We can make this far more straightforward through a hosted PO editor.

Weblate offers free hosting for FOSS projects provided they meet the criteria:

• Translated content has to be released under a license approved by OSI or recognized as libre by FSF.
• All the source code has to be publicly available in a supported version control system.
• Translations have to be in the same repository as the source code, or under the same project/organization as the source code repository.
• Using Weblate has been approved by the upstream project.
• Mention you use Weblate for translations in the README. It’ll attract new translators and also help Weblate to be free for more projects.
• The project has had active development for at least three months.

Unfortunately, the project has only existed for two months. In mid-April, we should be eligible for free hosting.

Might be a uncommon bug, but if you have your extensions disabled via GNOME Extensions, Extension Manager will still mark extensions as being turned on. Allowing extensions in GNOME Extensions restores functionality to the application.

Perhaps there could be an indicator if a user has both application installed that extensions have been disabled?

Hi,

compiling extension-manager on Fedora 35 fails with this error messages:

`+ cd extension-manager-0.2.3

• CFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
• export CFLAGS
• CXXFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection'
• export CXXFLAGS
• FFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
• export FFLAGS
• FCFLAGS='-O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -I/usr/lib64/gfortran/modules'
• export FCFLAGS
• LDFLAGS='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 '
• export LDFLAGS
• LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64:
• export LT_SYS_LIBRARY_PATH
• CC=gcc
• export CC
• CXX=g++
• export CXX
• /usr/bin/meson --buildtype=plain --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --includedir=/usr/include --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --localedir=/usr/share/locale --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --wrap-mode=nodownload --auto-features=enabled . redhat-linux-build
  The Meson build system
  Version: 0.59.4
  Source dir: /home/martin/rpmbuild/BUILD/extension-manager-0.2.3
  Build dir: /home/martin/rpmbuild/BUILD/extension-manager-0.2.3/redhat-linux-build
  Build type: native build
  Project name: extension-manager
  Project version: 0.2.3
  C compiler for the host machine: gcc (gcc 11.2.1 "gcc (GCC) 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)")
  C linker for the host machine: gcc ld.bfd 2.37-10
  Host machine cpu family: x86_64
  Host machine cpu: x86_64
  Configuring exm-config.h using configuration
  Program desktop-file-validate found: YES (/usr/bin/desktop-file-validate)
  Program appstream-util found: YES (/usr/bin/appstream-util)
  Program glib-compile-schemas found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas)
  Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.8.0)
  Run-time dependency gtk4 found: YES 4.4.2
  Run-time dependency libadwaita-1 found: YES 1.0.0.alpha.4
  Run-time dependency json-glib-1.0 found: YES 1.6.6
  Run-time dependency libsoup-3.0 found: YES 3.0.4
  Program blueprint-compiler found: YES (/usr/bin/blueprint-compiler)
  Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.8.0)
  Program glib-compile-resources found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-compile-resources)
  Program build-aux/meson/postinstall.py found: YES (/home/martin/rpmbuild/BUILD/extension-manager-0.2.3/build-aux/meson/postinstall.py)
  Build targets in project: 9

Found ninja-1.10.2 at /usr/bin/ninja

• /usr/bin/meson compile -C redhat-linux-build -j 2 --verbose
  ninja: Entering directory `redhat-linux-build'
  [1/26] /usr/bin/meson --internal msgfmthelper ../data/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager.desktop.in data/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager.desktop desktop ../data/../po
  [2/26] /usr/bin/meson --internal msgfmthelper ../data/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager.appdata.xml.in data/com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager.appdata.xml xml ../data/../po
  [3/26] /usr/bin/blueprint-compiler batch-compile src/. ../src ../src/gtk/help-overlay.blp ../src/exm-window.blp ../src/exm-installed-page.blp ../src/exm-browse-page.blp ../src/exm-extension-row.blp ../src/exm-search-row.blp ../src/exm-detail-view.blp ../src/exm-screenshot.blp
  FAILED: src
  /usr/bin/blueprint-compiler batch-compile src/. ../src ../src/gtk/help-overlay.blp ../src/exm-window.blp ../src/exm-installed-page.blp ../src/exm-browse-page.blp ../src/exm-extension-row.blp ../src/exm-search-row.blp ../src/exm-detail-view.blp ../src/exm-screenshot.blp
  error: Class Adw.Leaflet does not contain a property called can-navigate-back
  at ../src/exm-window.blp line 9 column 4:
  9 | can-navigate-back: true;
  | ^
  hint: Did you check your spelling?
  hint: Are your dependencies up to date?

ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
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I want translate this application in to Russian Language

Display a pop-up when loading a new version, showing the user release notes.

In a rather unfortunate turn of events, extensions.gnome.org is down at the moment.

This is a good opportunity to improve error reporting within the program. We should notify the user if:

• http request fails (i.e. ego could not be reached)
• dbus command fails (cannot communicate with gnome-shell, invalid state, etc)
• json parsing fails

It would be good to use libadwaita's new in-app notification widgets to display this.