GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4

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Phoronix: GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4

With GTK4 out and stabilizing well, more GNOME components are working to migrate to this updated toolkit as part of the GNOME 40 development cycle...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ts-Portal-GTK4

[Mez' Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mez']

sudo gedit /etc/pacman.conf

IgnoreGroup = Gnome

&

sudo apt-mark hold Gnome

Until extensions are updated.

*Packages or groups might be named differently but you get the gist.

[lumks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close lumks]

All these poor distros who have changed gnome with lots and lots of hacks will like that

Luckily there are some sane distros. BTW gnome default is awesome to use. Once you really gave it a chance, you will miss the flow everywhere else.

[llort_lemmort Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close llort_lemmort]

They should just port the whole shell to GTK4 instead of using Clutter and St. Why maintain two separate OpenGL based GUI toolkits, two separate CSS implementations, etc.?

[Sethox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Sethox]

All these poor distros who have changed gnome with lots and lots of hacks will like that
Luckily there are some sane distros. BTW gnome default is awesome to use. Once you really gave it a chance, you will miss the flow everywhere else.

As that is true, the point of most "advanced" Gnome users uses extensions because it makes it "better". Default Gnome is fine but not "good enough" thus usage of extension.

[CochainComplex Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CochainComplex]

As that is true, the point of most "advanced" Gnome users uses extensions because it makes it "better". Default Gnome is fine but not "good enough" thus usage of extension.

Exactly, eg PopOs autotilling best extension so far IMHO. Something vanilla gnome does not provide out of the box. Or menu for choosing hybrid /nvidia/ Intel settings.

[lumks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close lumks]

... PopOs autotilling ...

BTW does this work with wayland by now? I'd really wanna use it.

[CochainComplex Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CochainComplex]

Yes on my desktop with navi10 it works splendid (only resizing Firefox might look like a glitch for a sec if too much tabs are open). On my nvidia hybrid Intel laptop I can't choose Wayland session even if I install everything required. Maybe it can be "hacked" but I don't want to screw the configuration - I have had bad experience with nvidia hybrid and "tweaks". So I can only speak for an AMD config.

[oleid Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close oleid]

As that is true, the point of most "advanced" Gnome users uses extensions because it makes it "better". Default Gnome is fine but not "good enough" thus usage of extension.

Yes, same is true for most browsers.

[cynic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close cynic]

All these poor distros who have changed gnome with lots and lots of hacks will like that

Luckily there are some sane distros. BTW gnome default is awesome to use. Once you really gave it a chance, you will miss the flow everywhere else.

I somewhat got used to the Gnome 3 workflow. I'm a bit disappointed because it is going to change again with Gnome 40.
Hope there will be a configuration/extension/hack to mantain the current workflow.