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This incident made me think that the hackers planned to hijack some popular extension. this would make the more damage. My (unpopular) opinion is that GNOME sh

This incident made me think that the hackers planned to hijack some popular extension. this would make the more damage. My (unpopular) opinion is that GNOME should see what are the most used extensions, accept that people want those feature and bring those features into GNOME or make those official extension and not third party, so you at least control what most people would install.

emerongi 7y ago
GNOME has been nuking features for a while, recommending people to go and install extensions. Extensions work by monkey-patching and once you have a critical mass of them, you're guaranteed to run into some glitches where one monkey-patch messes up the other. I like the KDE approach more where features are actually baked into the DE. It's much easier to reproduce bugs and fix bugs that can depend on different features being enabled. Everyone benefits.
- simion314 7y ago
  I agree with you, but if the GNOME devs can't change their "vision" the next best thing is to adopt the popular extensions the downstream distribution use and bring them in the main repository, at least you reduce the risks and maybe keep the extensions more updated. I am a KDE user and to be fair during KDE4 days ,Plasma had a maintainer with big ego that had a similar mentality with GNOME devs, we could not get a patch merged in to hide the Cachew thingy. Makes me wonder if all this GNOME vision of removing non default options is just one guy with big ego and lot of influence
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  > GNOME has been nuking features for a while That's an understatement. GNOME is so notorious for removing features that I recall jokes on Slashdot 15 years ago about how the next version of GNOME will just have a giant "Do Stuff" button in the middle of the screen.
opencl 7y ago
I think that opinion is only unpopular among GNOME devs. Even ignoring security concerns the whole process of installing Tweaks and chrome-gnome-shell and navigating to the extensions website and then the extensions breaking every time GNOME updates just because you want a dock or panel is really annoying.
Kaiyou 7y ago
Wow, so this is what GNOME has become. I've ditched them in favor of Mate at some point and later made that into an i3/Mate combination. Something about editing text files for configuration is just inherently better over clicking through dozens of menus.
- tripzilch 7y ago
  what's an i3/mate combination? do you mean you switch between them as you feel like it, or somehow have a combined workspace with both? don't you need to log out to switch?
  - simion314 7y ago
    Not OP, on most DEs(desktop environment) you can change the WM (window manager) , like in the past you could replace Mutter or KWin with Compiz. I am not sure if this is possible this days with GNOME.
  - Kaiyou 7y ago
    Mate has good i3 integration. I'm running i3, but have the mate panel and menus and stuff.

emerongi 7y ago

GNOME has been nuking features for a while, recommending people to go and install extensions. Extensions work by monkey-patching and once you have a critical mass of them, you're guaranteed to run into some glitches where one monkey-patch messes up the other. I like the KDE approach more where features are actually baked into the DE. It's much easier to reproduce bugs and fix bugs that can depend on different features being enabled. Everyone benefits.

simion314 7y ago
I agree with you, but if the GNOME devs can't change their "vision" the next best thing is to adopt the popular extensions the downstream distribution use and bring them in the main repository, at least you reduce the risks and maybe keep the extensions more updated. I am a KDE user and to be fair during KDE4 days ,Plasma had a maintainer with big ego that had a similar mentality with GNOME devs, we could not get a patch merged in to hide the Cachew thingy. Makes me wonder if all this GNOME vision of removing non default options is just one guy with big ego and lot of influence
AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
> GNOME has been nuking features for a while That's an understatement. GNOME is so notorious for removing features that I recall jokes on Slashdot 15 years ago about how the next version of GNOME will just have a giant "Do Stuff" button in the middle of the screen.

opencl 7y ago

I think that opinion is only unpopular among GNOME devs. Even ignoring security concerns the whole process of installing Tweaks and chrome-gnome-shell and navigating to the extensions website and then the extensions breaking every time GNOME updates just because you want a dock or panel is really annoying.

Kaiyou 7y ago

Wow, so this is what GNOME has become. I've ditched them in favor of Mate at some point and later made that into an i3/Mate combination. Something about editing text files for configuration is just inherently better over clicking through dozens of menus.

tripzilch 7y ago
what's an i3/mate combination? do you mean you switch between them as you feel like it, or somehow have a combined workspace with both? don't you need to log out to switch?
- simion314 7y ago
  Not OP, on most DEs(desktop environment) you can change the WM (window manager) , like in the past you could replace Mutter or KWin with Compiz. I am not sure if this is possible this days with GNOME.
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  Mate has good i3 integration. I'm running i3, but have the mate panel and menus and stuff.