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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do we have an extension apocalipse again, or is it a "bump supported version" type update?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The 2nd. And even then, you can just turn off version checking and extensions generally just work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I can confirm. Updated on my laptop and every extension works so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t know that’s possible. How?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've never actually done it, because the only extension I use is Blur My Shell, and the dev is so quick at updating that extension that even when I immediately update to a beta release it's already marked as compatible, but here it is:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation true

And if you want to revert back to normal and have extensions be validated again:

gsettings reset org.gnome.shell disable-extension-version-validation

I don't know if there's a GUI way to do it in one of the extension management platforms, I've never really looked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Still just experimental fractional scaling...

I don't think the rounded circles for buttons in the file dialog looks good, but that's hopefully just the default theme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There is no alternative theme, when it comes to rounding or spacing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's bad. It really doesn't look good. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, but XWayland apps should not be blurry now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] threeganzi 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, strange design choice since the other buttons in theUI are not pill shaped.

Aside from that things look very nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah I think that round shape looks seriously out of place. You would never see something like that outside of gnome, in any app.

But alright, it is what it is.