GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 781001
Provide a way for a downstream to be able to block some extensions
Last modified: 2018-01-24 17:32:02 UTC
Currently, there is no way of curating / blocking what extensions show up in GNOME Software from the gnome extenstions website. For example, having this extension showing up in GNOME Software in Fedora is probably not very useful: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1139/apt-update-indicator/
I think a better solution would be to add a "required dependencies" mechanism to the gnome-shell extensions metadata, which the shell or gnome-software can check before installing. This would also resolve issues with many other gnome-shell extensions requiring other packages to be installed. Some examples: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1064/system-monitor/ requires gtop (Version 2) https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/82/cpu-temperature-indicator/ requires lm-sensors Exaile, a music player written in Python + GObject, has implemented this in a nice way. See field "RequiredModules": Documentation: https://github.com/exaile/exaile/blob/e67673c2707a77f8be8f6b191c0604b49808c207/doc/dev/plugin_guide.rst Code implementation: https://github.com/exaile/exaile/blob/e67673c2707a77f8be8f6b191c0604b49808c207/xl/plugins.py#L235 Plugin metadata files: https://github.com/exaile/exaile/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=RequiredModules&type=
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