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I have never enjoyed the idea of extensions for essential functionalities like power menu. With release of newer versions of Gnome Shell every 6-8 months, exten

I have never enjoyed the idea of extensions for essential functionalities like power menu. With release of newer versions of Gnome Shell every 6-8 months, extensions break. Like Firefox, there will always be some extensions not working. You have to log-out to enable extensions. I don't like to reboot or log-out my Linux box, not for trivial things like extensions. I only reboot when there is a kernel update. I am still unable to understand where do they want to take notification. I like both Gnome and Unity. Gnome Foundations and Canonical should be left to pursue their own objective goals as long as they don't destroy projects that are used by other Desktop Environments like XFCE, etc.

skbohra123 14y ago
You don't need to log out to enable extensions, just reload gnome shell. Press Alt-F2 and type 'r' without quotes.
- aprescott 14y ago
  I actually don't even need to do this, they just enable immediately. (Version 3.6.1, if that's relevant.)
mseepgood 14y ago
Extensions enable and disable without relogin at least since 3.2.
Thagor 14y ago
Like other comments, I don't need to reload or log out my gnome shell when adding an extension. But it's true that I used Shell only for the last 6 months, so I'm not really aware of the broken extension problem, but it's clear that it can be a huge probleme, especially because even though Shell is good, it misses some things out of the box that are really useful, like I said in my blog post.
- donniezazen 14y ago
  What distro are you running Gnome on? I ran 3.6 on Archlinux and some extensions didn't come up automatically. For example, the gnome-shell-system-monitor doesn't apply changes without log-out (I am not sure about reload, never tried that).
  - Thagor 14y ago
    I'm currently on Linux Mint, and before that I used Gnome Shell with Ubuntu 12.04.
Andrex 14y ago
"Power Off" is now a default option in 3.6. It seems like they're using extensions to get a feel of what the most popular feature requests are, then adding them to the default experience. You may disagree with it, but a hard number of extension installs is more to go on a couple blog posts.

skbohra123 14y ago

You don't need to log out to enable extensions, just reload gnome shell. Press Alt-F2 and type 'r' without quotes.

aprescott 14y ago
I actually don't even need to do this, they just enable immediately. (Version 3.6.1, if that's relevant.)

mseepgood 14y ago

Extensions enable and disable without relogin at least since 3.2.

Thagor 14y ago

Like other comments, I don't need to reload or log out my gnome shell when adding an extension. But it's true that I used Shell only for the last 6 months, so I'm not really aware of the broken extension problem, but it's clear that it can be a huge probleme, especially because even though Shell is good, it misses some things out of the box that are really useful, like I said in my blog post.

donniezazen 14y ago
What distro are you running Gnome on? I ran 3.6 on Archlinux and some extensions didn't come up automatically. For example, the gnome-shell-system-monitor doesn't apply changes without log-out (I am not sure about reload, never tried that).
- Thagor 14y ago
  I'm currently on Linux Mint, and before that I used Gnome Shell with Ubuntu 12.04.

Andrex 14y ago

"Power Off" is now a default option in 3.6. It seems like they're using extensions to get a feel of what the most popular feature requests are, then adding them to the default experience. You may disagree with it, but a hard number of extension installs is more to go on a couple blog posts.