Do all the existing shell extensions in Gnome 3.6 work in 3.8?

[Baldrick_NZ]

I'm thinking about testing Gnome 3.8, but before I do, do all the existing shell extensions in 3.6 work in 3.8 as well, or do they all pretty much require upgrading?

Cheers.

[VinDSL]

Short answer is "No".

Some work, some don't. Some are flagged as requiring upgrading. And, there are some new extensions.

It's all over the place...

[Baldrick_NZ]

Thanks VinDSL,

So is there somewhere that I can check which extensions work, which don't and what the new ones are before upgrading?

[VinDSL]

Thanks VinDSL,

So is there somewhere that I can check which extensions work, which don't and what the new ones are before upgrading?

You're welcome.

I don't know of any place(s) to check which extensions work, or not.

[Baldrick_NZ]

Is it easily removed, if it doesn't work well for me, by purging the ppa and reverting to gnome 3.6?

[VinDSL]

Is it easily removed, if it doesn't work well for me, by purging the ppa and reverting to gnome 3.6?

You should be able to purge it, using ppa-purge, but no guarantees. Cavsfan had ppa-purge fail, if I remember correctly.

Just make sure you know how to use ppa-purge before upgrading, and you should be able to downgrade to 3.6.

If you have a problem remembering which ppa you used to install Gnome 3.8, you can try...

history | grep add-apt-repository

[serdotlinecho]

Is it easily removed, if it doesn't work well for me, by purging the ppa and reverting to gnome 3.6?

~❯ history | grep add-apt-repository
~❯ sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
~❯ sudo apt-get update

Also you can check 3rd party ppa that you've added:

~❯ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

[jbicha]

So is there somewhere that I can check which extensions work, which don't and what the new ones are before upgrading?

Except for the extensions included in the gnome-shell-extensions package, it doesn't look good yet.

https://extensions.gnome.org/#shell_version=3.7.91 (Next week we'll see 3.7.92 too). It'll begin to look quite a bit better once 3.8 is released.

If you change that URL to 3.7.90, there's several more choices but it's a bit more complicated to install since the version won't match what you'll have installed.

[Baldrick_NZ]

Thanks Jeremy,
So with regard to extensions, I'm prolly best to wait until 3.8 officially? I see there are only two extensions listed on the link you gave me.

[VinDSL]

I see there are only two extensions listed on the link you gave me.

This stuff changes all the time. That's the nature of testing!

Here's the list, as of today (take with a grain of salt)...

vindsl@Zuul:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-shellgnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.7.92+git20130319.307004a4-0ubuntu1~13.04~ricotz0
  Candidate: 3.7.92+git20130319.307004a4-0ubuntu1~13.04~ricotz0
  Version table:
 *** 3.7.92+git20130319.307004a4-0ubuntu1~13.04~ricotz0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.7.92-0ubuntu1~raring1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages
     3.6.3.1-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386 Packages
        500 http://samaritan.ucmerced.edu/ubuntu/ raring/universe i386 Packages
     3.6.2-0ubuntu0.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal-updates/universe i386 Packages
vindsl@Zuul:~$

Linkage: https://extensions.gnome.org/#shell_version=3.7.92 (20 extensions listed)

I'll check "TopIcons" after I submit this post -- that's always a good...um... test.

EDIT

Nope! Flagged as needing updating.

Tomorrow is a new day...