Request that a now vital GNOME app be officially supported

TechnicalTotoro · 2017-03-25 14:41:15

Since the release of Firefox 52 NPAPI plugins are no longer supported, meaning that the GNOME Extensions plugin which used to allow users to upgrade, install and manage their GNOME extensions through the main website (https://extensions.gnome.org/) no longer works.

Thus it has been changed so that users wanting to use the site properly have to install a Firefox add-on as well as a native host connector application. This application happens to currently be in the AUR and it is under the package name of chrome-gnome-shell-git there. This application will now be necessary to any GNOME user who wishes to upgrade existing extensions or to install new ones. Probably quite a lot of GNOME users that is. So it would be very useful if chrome-gnome-shell-git could become officially supported and at at least not only reside in the AUR which is a repository which I don't really trust and I don't really want to have to install anything from their to make my GNOME installation work properly.

This is the GNOME Wiki page which talks about this application: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeSh … stallation And as soon as the GNOME website fixes the issue with their homepage not displaying the notice properly any more, information on this will also be displayed there.

Now, as I am fairly new to Arch, I am not sure of where is appropriate to make such a request for this package to become officially supported in the main repositories, or even if there is such a way to make such a request. As this at least isn't clear to me, I hope that by posting this here, even if this is the wrong place, that I could be given some guidance on taking this further, if I can.

Xabre · 2017-03-25 14:57:17

You can always use Arch Bugtracker to make a Feature Request. Though, afaik, as long as it doesn't have a stable release (or at least a snapshot that could be called stable by devs), chances of it being provided in official repoes are pretty slim.

TechnicalTotoro · 2017-03-25 15:05:42

Xabre wrote:

You can always use Arch Bugtracker to make a Feature Request. Though, afaik, as long as it doesn't have a stable release (or at least a snapshot that could be called stable by devs), chances of it being provided in official repoes are pretty slim.

When filing a bug report there there is a notice at the top which reads "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in Unsupported.", does this not count as an "Unsupported" package? Or did they mean something else there?

Xabre · 2017-03-25 15:18:12

There are always exceptions, as long as there is a good reason for such exception (first thing that comes to mind is xf86-video-intel which is built from git snapshot, as there has not been a stable release in ages).
If the request is sane, and I do believe that for Gnome users this might be vital, I see no reason to not at least try.

Besides, as a feature request, of course it's not already provided in the repoes, otherwise you wouldn't need to request it, right?

Last edited by Xabre (2017-03-25 15:20:38)

Scimmia · 2017-03-25 15:21:36

The gnome maintainers are aware of the plugin situation. If they want this in the repos, they'll put it there. A feature request for a package to be moved from the AUR when it's not needed as a direct dep of something else will likely get closed immediately.

bulletmark · 2017-03-25 22:35:26

TechnicalTotoro wrote:

This application will now be necessary to any GNOME user who wishes to upgrade existing extensions or to install new ones.

That's not correct actually because the native GNOME web browser is always installed by default (with the gnome package group) and works fine with extensions.gnome.org.

TechnicalTotoro · 2017-04-01 20:35:21

bulletmark wrote:

TechnicalTotoro wrote:
This application will now be necessary to any GNOME user who wishes to upgrade existing extensions or to install new ones.
That's not correct actually because the native GNOME web browser is always installed by default (with the gnome package group) and works fine with extensions.gnome.org.

You call that a browser? I don't want to be forced use that thing... I guess I could just for this, but still, a more convenient long-term solution is required which doesn't involve forcing you to use a terrible browser you want to uninstall as soon as it gets to you with the group. Maybe some people want to use it, but I certainly don't it lacks a lot of functionality. It also doesn't run properly on my system as it's so buggy.

TechnicalTotoro · 2017-04-01 20:36:36

Xabre wrote:

There are always exceptions, as long as there is a good reason for such exception (first thing that comes to mind is xf86-video-intel which is built from git snapshot, as there has not been a stable release in ages).
If the request is sane, and I do believe that for Gnome users this might be vital, I see no reason to not at least try.
Besides, as a feature request, of course it's not already provided in the repoes, otherwise you wouldn't need to request it, right?

Well, I'm giving it a shot: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53526

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Request that a now vital GNOME app be officially supported

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