> while being on old-old-stable still (buster) and preparing for an
> upgrade to bookworm, i noticed, that GNOME once again lost compatibility
> to my preferred extensions, giving me a hard choice to either go on with
> my outdated system as long as possible, or find a replacement and change
> my ways of working.
Not really an answer, just a side note: AFAIK, the concept of "DE"
doesn't exist at a technical level. You *can* mix and match things from
various "DE"s. There are occasional dependencies between components of
"DE"s, but each one of them is a PITA which I think should be treated as
a bug.
Stefan
