Consider dropping check for org.gnome.Extensions when checking for updates
Feature summary
Hi, I'm the maintainer of extension-manager, a third-party alternative for managing extensions.
Currently the behaviour of GNOME Shell is to check whether the official org.gnome.Extensions
app is installed when the DBus CheckForUpdates()
method is called. When Extension Manager is the only installed extensions tool on the system, this results in it silently failing while checking for updates. As the extensions app is preinstalled on most distributions, this hasn't been much of an issue, but I'd like if this use case could be properly supported.
How would you like it to work
Would it be possible to drop the check when calling the DBus API manually, or otherwise have some method for Extension Manager to request a check for updates regardless of the presence of the official app?
Relevant links, screenshots, screencasts etc.
GitHub issue: https://github.com/mjakeman/extension-manager/issues/165
Possible duplicate: #5360 (closed)