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Gnome on surface pro 4. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/linux@programming.dev

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Finally have a fantastic setup for my surface to act as a tablet. the extension Touchup is doing some heavy lifting for usability. apps are: files, Riff, Librewolf, Voyager. Heres more screenshots.

Edit: i forgot to show some portrait screenshots! Ill grab some when i get a min!

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[–] eta@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah yeah that's the main thing I hate about GNOME. If you have the extension installed you can just go to .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions and for each extension add 50 to the supported gnome-shell versions list. It actually works perfectly fine on GNOME 50 on my PC with that hack. I really don't know why GNOME extensions work this way because I've never had an extension that didn't run like normal after doing this.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The purpose of this is to force extension developers to verify that their extension works on the new version. The alternative would be extensions randomly breaking your system on upgrade.

[–] eta@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's reasonable. I guess I'd just want maybe a button in the extension manger "use anyway" to quickly enable "unsupported" extensions after an update without having to use this hack.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Extensions rewrite the shell's code, they're both very powerful and dangerous, it's why they're all reviewed by GNOME devs. I'm not sure letting people optionally bork their shell is a good idea, even if there's some automatic recovery options and it's gonna be harmless most of the time. No, the correct solution is if you like the extension you pick up the mantle, it's all open source - you can ask for the keys or fork away.

[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, since this extension is also on GitHub, I can try to sync it up that way, and then do a little editing to try to get it to work.

Thanks for the tip!