GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 770887
data: Swap default for 'disable-extension-version-check' setting
Last modified: 2016-09-09 21:56:07 UTC
See patch.
Created attachment 334782 [details] [review] data: Swap default for 'disable-extension-version-check' setting Nowadays, the user interface has mostly stabilized with most changes happening under the hood. As a result, extensions written for previous versions of GNOME Shell are very much expected to keep working on updates, if it wasn't for the version check that requires a version bump in the extension metadata. There has been a setting to disable that check for a while, but it's existence isn't widely known (hence the common perception that "everything breaks on updates"). While there is still some risk that an out-of-date extension can be enabled without error, but fails spectacularly later (where we cannot catch the exception), it is reasonably small by now when compared to the ~95% of extensions that can be "unbroken", so swap the default value to disable version checks by default.
Review of attachment 334782 [details] [review]: sounds reasonable
Attachment 334782 [details] pushed as 5e0e3ed - data: Swap default for 'disable-extension-version-check' setting