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Also, plugins (and themes) have a short expected lifetime on Gnome because it is tedious for a maintainer to adapt the plugin to the high rate of churn in Gnom
by hollerith 2y ago
Also, plugins (and themes) have a short expected lifetime on Gnome because it is tedious for a maintainer to adapt the plugin to the high rate of churn in Gnome.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoIIRC GNOME also doesn’t have much of an official plugin API, which makes the situation that much worse. Plugins just have to tinker with GNOME internals and hope for the best.
- jeroenhd 2y agoThere is an extension API: https://gjs.guide/extensions/development/creating.html https://gjs.guide/extensions/development/creating.html The API isn't guaranteed to be backwards compatible, though, so you do need to occasionally update your extension code when a new version of Gnome comes out.