RHEL 7 and Gnome extensions [LWN.net]

RHEL 7 and Gnome extensions

Posted Jan 10, 2013 16:20 UTC (Thu) by tetley80 (guest, #88691)
In reply to: RHEL 7 and Gnome extensions by ovitters
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 released

you seem to want arbitrary versions of software

No, that's not my intent.

It would be awfully nice for Gnome 3.whatever shipped in RHEL 7 not to rely on the online Gnome extensions site (which is always in flux [*]), and instead ship a stable set of extensions (as a package) that enable classic UI elements. This can be done for whatever version of Gnome chosen by RH.

[*] A quite probable use case scenario: user gets a RHEL 7 box with Gnome 3.n interface and is stumped/annoyed/etc due to the UI change. He/she finds a nice set of extensions on the Gnome extensions site to make the UI more "traditional". Fast forward 1 year, when the user wants to setup a RHEL 7 box for a friend, as it's great for xyz. The online extensions now require Gnome 3.n+2, and no longer work with Gnome 3.n. The friend is sh*t-out-of-luck and is highly displeased by being stuck with the weird interface in RHEL.

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RHEL 7 and Gnome extensions

Posted Jan 10, 2013 17:04 UTC (Thu) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]

But various developers are exactly working to provide tarballs of a small set of extensions. You cannot expect GNOME to provide the level of support that you pay RH for.

In any case, the site does not require any specific GNOME version. In theory it could and there are no guarantees. Still, same situation exists for Firefox and various other software.