Le 16/04/2018 à 15:10, Paul Court a écrit :
Apologies in advance if this gets mixed up. I'm trying to reply to a
thread which was in progress before I joined the mailing list.
I'm struggling to fully follow the in and out on the web version of
the thread
(https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2017-October/msg00034.html),
but if I am following along, it's an attempt to have some extensions
locked in from a system perspective in order to support QA and
security of the distro.
Exactly!
However, instead of forking "dash to dock" and "KStatusNotifier"
into "ubuntu-dock" and "ubuntu-appindicator", would it make for a
better end user experience to instead improve the existing extensions
and update Gnome to support some kind of version "Lock" for the extension.
The whole forking process of those extensions (why, we had to do this)
with upstream extension blessing was explained in details in the "Ubuntu
GNOME Shell in artful" series:
https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/03/ubuntu--guadec-2017-and-plans-for-gnome-shell-migration/
and the start of the series:
https://didrocks.fr/2017/08/14/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-1/.
In particular, the part about the fork and extensions are laid out and
explained in
https://didrocks.fr/2017/09/04/ubuntu-gnome-shell-in-artful-day-9/.
Also note that everything not ubuntu specific was backported to those
upstream extensions themselves, not only shipped in ubuntu dock.
The interface could then advice the user that the extension forms part
of the supported system, and any updates could potentially reduce the
stability and security of the system. But ultimately this would allow
me as end end user to choose to replace with an updated "dash to dock"
if I so wish?
That doesn't prevent you to update dash to dock or any other non
extensions not being part of the current mode. We also did a lot of
extra work to ensure that you can use in the ubuntu session dash to dock
itself instead of ubuntu dock. Have a read of the whole blog post series
where everything is detailed there :)
Cheers,
Didier
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