Extensions are released for everyone, not specifically for Ubuntu, so not the extension developer's responsibility to check, which distros would work. Quote https://extensions.gnome.org/about/ "All extensions uploaded to this site are carefully reviewed for malicious behavior before they are made available for download."
As users are normal people, they'd try out any extension out there, and Ubuntu 19.10 would fail. Any extension downloaded from https://extensions.gnome.org/about/ would install it in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions and would override the system extension, user comes first. Both extensions are from the same author, whatever the name of the extension (for example, desktop-icons@csoriano). If we take the system Desktop Icons extension, it cannot be blocked from any future development by the author/maintainer. What we call Desktop Icons system extension is static, as it is, while the maintainer had upgraded it few days ago. The bug is here in Ubuntu Eoan, not with the extension. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1846871 Title: Desktop Icons NG shell extension breaks Activities vew Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: First reported here https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/installing-just- one-extension-makes-ubuntu-eoan-to-fail/12816 Steps 1. I tried first to disabled default Desktop Icons extension(1) 2. I installed "Desktop Icons NG" from https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/ 3. Tested the extension was properly working (DnD, open folders) OK 4. Opened the Activity view: stuck in this view At this stage there is no way to exit from the activity view. Arrow keys work fine for moving the selection on open window, search works fine as well, but pressing Enter key does nothing, as well as clicking on the close window X does not kill the windows. Logging out is the only way to recover, until Activity view is opened again. Reproduced on Eoan in a VM, while it is not reproducible on Fedora 29 (currently I can't test the latest fedora, but the original report made more tests and it seems reproducible in Eoan only). This extension provides some more common features for desktop icons, so it is likely to be installed more in the future. Note: 1. The default desktop icons extension looks always disabled (GNOME tweaks switch is off), even if it's actually working, so I just switched the visibility of the icons off from default Desktop Icons settings. This very likely did not disable the extension, but it's likely what a normal user would do. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.34.0-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-13.14-generic 5.3.0 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Oct 5 11:18:50 2019 DisplayManager: gdm3 RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.0-3ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1846871/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
