Hello, GNOME 47.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze). If you’d like to target the GNOME 47 platform, this is the best time to start testing your apps or shell extensions. Download the GNOME 47.beta sources. Review the list of updated modules and changes . Use the official BuildStream project snapshot to compile GNOME 47.beta. You can use the 47beta branch of the flatpak runtimes, which is now available on Flathu...
I already mentioned in my comment why the “just have it as an API” point wouldn’t really work unless extensions became severely hampered in terms of what you can do with them.
That’s more acceptable than to have them break every 6 months.
You actually want extensions to be useless. What’s the point of them if they can hardly do anything?
You’re fundamentally not understanding how extensions work. They cannot be even nearly as useful as they are now if they have to go through a standardised API. No docks, no window management, etc.
You can always provide them with enough standardized APIs that don’t break, to make them useful. The situation that’s right now is unacceptable.
No it isn’t.
And practically, they don’t break every 6 months. Almost all extensions are patched weeks before the new version is even released.
E: so people actively want extensions to be practically useless and barely be able to change anything? You are lying. If they implemented that all we’d here is “hur dur Gnome wants to lock the system down”