Support troubleshooting: Make it explicit what the graying-out of the website means
Submitted by Sini Ruohomaa
Assigned to Shell extensions maintainer(s)
Link to original bug (#735147)
Description
I visited extensions.gnome.org today for the first time, since I hadn't heard of Gnome extensions before, thought it was cool and wanted to find out what they are.
Observed behaviour: When I visit extensions.gnome.org, it first lets me know that my gnome shell extension is not activated (in Firefox) and this is going to mean some functionality may not be available. The red warning is separate, and the site shows the available extensions list in full colour.
When I allow the running of the extension (or turn it into a mode to always allow), the entire extension list seems to become slightly grayed out - I can still click on them so it's not a full-fledged 'disable', but the difference is noticeable enough that I get the feeling it tries to tell me something.
Request for enhancement: Please spell out somewhere what it means that the extension list is fogged over this way. I can't figure out if it means some of these extensions don't work with what I have but some might, or if it means "hey, dope, we can see you're running Unity which is totally not Gnome so shoo". (I'm running an Ubuntu variant with Unity now, so both scenarios are possible from my point of view.)
Related note: I didn't find any means of installing any of the extensions (even with the appropriate Firefox extension on), but neither did I see an explicit "you cannot install this because" message anywhere, so it's just all very unclear if the problem is me not understanding the site logic or if this has to do with the graying-out. Or if the installations are meant to be done by cloning git repositories, compiling from scratch and so on. Seems a bit unlikely.
(I'll just move on and do other things instead since I was mostly curious, but thought the newbie point of view might be of use given the website encourages feedback.)
Version: beta