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Bug 755534 - Give details about what failed when an extension couldn't be installed
Give details about what failed when an extension couldn't be installed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 691529
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-09-24 11:13 UTC by Alexander Nestorov
Modified: 2015-09-24 11:44 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alexander Nestorov 2015-09-24 11:13:46 UTC 
There are quite some extensions that will refuse to install, but no error messages are given at all. It would be nice if an error message saying "This extension failed because of X, Y and Z reasons" would be shown instead of silently failing.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2015-09-24 11:44:09 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691529 ***