The GNOME Project has officially released GNOME 48.8, a maintenance update for the old-stable GNOME 48 desktop environment series.
Among the updated modules, GNOME Control Center addresses several long-standing issues, including fixes for Wi-Fi handling when managing a single device, a small memory leak in the Color panel, improvements to timezone searching, and more consistent locale variable handling.
GNOME Maps resolves a freeze that could occur when displaying routes while moving the application window between different screens, improving stability in multi-monitor setups. GNOME Online Accounts fixes DAV discovery issues and adds better detection and configuration support for SOGo servers.
Do gnome updates still break all your plugins?
GNOME major upgrades (v48, v49…) always break extensions by design to force the extension maintainers to update. It’s generally recommended to hold off on upgrading for a few weeks to give maintainers time to update their extensions.
It’s the msot stupid thing any linux dev every decided - imo.
Extensions can crash your system on GNOME as they modify the shell itself, so running incompatible extensions is a real problem. The upside to this is that when you find an extension and it has your version on it, it’s guaranteed to run. Fyi you can easilly override the version requirements.
That’s the dev perspective, I have a user perspective.
sometimes the extension works and sometimes it doesn’t. And there is no appearant reason why it doesn’t work. That leads to disliking updates because it breaks my installation. Welcome to windows :/
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It shouldn’t break as long as you download the extensions through the distro’s repos. Sure, it’s a relative small collection, but it happens to hold everything I personally need.
If you need more than a handful of the major plugins (which won’t break), you’re likely better off with a different DE.
Also, if you install plugins and Gnome from different sources (like Gnome from your distro and plugins directly from the Gnome project’s website), then YOU take on the job of making sure they’re compatible.
With KDE and additional user-made Plasma widgets you have the same issue.probably, though I’ve not had that in a good while
