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Bug 1940887 - Top Icons Plus can't be enabled in GNOME 40
Summary: Top Icons Plus can't be enabled in GNOME 40
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1936207
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
Version: 34
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Audrey Yeena Toskin
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-03-19 13:32 UTC by Michal Konecny
Modified: 2021-03-20 06:04 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-03-20 06:04:06 UTC
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Description Michal Konecny 2021-03-19 13:32:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
I tried to install the TopIcons Plus extension during Fedora Test Days (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Gnome_Shell_Extensions). After installation and restart of the VM I wasn't able to enable it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus-27-3.fc34

How reproducible:
Install TopIcons Plus on GNOME 40

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus
2. Restart machine
3. Open GNOME Extensions

Actual results:
TopIcons Plus is disabled and can't be enabled

Expected results:
TopIcons Plus extension is enabled

Additional info:
Because of the GNOME decision to remove the tray icons, this extension is now essential for plenty of users.
Comment 1 Audrey Yeena Toskin 2021-03-20 06:04:06 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report, I'm glad you find TopIcons Plus useful :)

...I was actually already aware of this issue -- see Bug #1936207. Turns out the extension itself needs to be updated to be compatible with GNOME 40. We may already have a fix upstream, though I haven't tested it yet.

  https://github.com/phocean/TopIcons-plus/pull/156

As a Red Hatter, I don't suppose you know how best to handle this sort of situation in the future? At the time, when I first noticed several of the GNOME Shell extensions that I package were incompatible with GNOME 40, I decided to update the dependencies to `gnome-shell < 3.39` to prevent users from installing it at all, which I figured was better UX than letting them install a broken package that can't work on their systems... But now *I'm* getting a million "fails to install" messages, so uh, it hasn't been great UX for me either 😅

Closing this bug now as a duplicate, but I'd still be interested in seeing your comments if you have better ideas of what to do next time there's a major GNOME API change and extensions don't update right away.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1936207 ***
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