This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.36.1-5ubuntu2
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gnome-shell (3.36.1-5ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium
* Have gnome-shell-extension-prefs recommend chrome-gnome-shell
(LP: #1866841)
- gnome-shell-extension-prefs recommends visiting
extensions.gnome.org to install extensions but that
requires chrome-gnome-shell to be installed
- GNOME Software 3.36 no longer offers installing
GNOME Shell extensions
-- Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2020 07:48:41 -0400
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
[SRU] Add chrome-gnome-shell to the recommends of gnome-shell-
extension-prefs
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnome-shell source package in Focal:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
* Since GNOME 3.36, Shell Extensions can no longer be installed using
GNOME Software (Ubuntu Software), instead there was a new Extensions
(gnome-shell-extension-prefs) application prepared to replace this
functionality. However, this application itself does not support
installing new extensions, instead, it opens a web browser with a
extensions.gnome.org website that allows browsing and installing new
extensions. This website depends on a chrome-gnome-shell package that
provides GNOME Shell integration (connector) for Firefox, Chrome,
Chromium and other web browsers for this functionality. Without this
connector, it is not possible to install Shell Extensions on Ubuntu
20.04.
* In this SRU, I want to propose adding this chrome-gnome-shell
package to recommends of the gnome-shell-extension-prefs package.
However, since the gnome-shell-extension-prefs package is in a main
repository and chrome-gnome-shell is in universe, it would be probably
also needed to first move the gnome-shell-extension-prefs package to
universe.
[Test Case]
* Install the "gnome-shell-extension-prefs" (Extensions) application.
* Open the "Extensions" application, click the "i" button in the
window header, click the "extensions.gnome.org" link.
* In the web browser window, click on link inside the blue
notification on extensions.gnome.org to install a browser extension
(frontend for the connector), then refresh the page.
* After this, a red notification appears on the web page telling the
user that host connector is not running.
[Regression Potential]
* Without the chrome-gnome-shell package installed, it is not
possible to install Shell Extensions on Ubuntu 20.04.
[Other Info]
* More information:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShellIntegrationForChrome
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