GNOME Shell Picks Up Performance Improvements For Extensions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Shell Picks Up Performance Improvements For Extensions

While days too late for squeezing into GNOME 3.34.0, the GNOME Shell has landed a one year old merge request providing various fixes and performance improvements to its extension system...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...xtensions-Perf

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This is perfect on top of
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...rge_requests/1

GNOME 3.34 makes life so much easier for the downstreams.

[uid313]

Last time I tried to write a GNOME Shell extension, I used the gnome-shell-extension-tool, and it generated some ugly JavaScript code, it couldn't use modern JavaScript ES6 classes.

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uid313

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...ged&search=Es6

[treba]

AFAIK, 3.35 has not been branched yet, so this is all still going into 3.34

[Britoid]

AFAIK, 3.35 has not been branched yet, so this is all still going into 3.34

Possibly 3.34.1

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3.34.1 might end up eslint clean \o/ The extensions really need to up their CI game. How can they live with poor hosting on github? No wonder some extensions break when they miss out on Gitlab CI.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...e_requests/716

[treba]

3.34.1 might end up eslint clean \o/ The extensions really need to up their CI game. How can they live with poor hosting on github? No wonder some extensions break when they miss out on Gitlab CI.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...e_requests/716

While Gitlab is surely great, you can have all sorts of external CI hooked up to github as well. Talking about travis-ci etc.

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treba Problem is that Github CI features remain unused. On Gitlab they share it between gjs, shell etc.

[Britoid]

3.34.1 might end up eslint clean \o/ The extensions really need to up their CI game. How can they live with poor hosting on github? No wonder some extensions break when they miss out on Gitlab CI.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome...e_requests/716

The extension system imho should just be removed or restricted to only a few areas (e.g. adding things on the top status menu).