I’ve just upgraded to Fedora Workstation 42 and am now unable to activate any GNOME extensions. The little switches in the GUI do not respond and it’s the same for all extensions. The Extensions and Extensions Manager apps are both installed as flatpaks - do I need to adjust their permissions in Flatseal? Is the problem due to something else? Thanks!

Edit/solution: I totally missed the ‘Use Extensions’ switch at the very top. All my extensions are working on the current GNOME version (48) now. I am the most silly. Hopefully the other solutions in the comments will be useful to someone else in future :)

  • qweertz (they/she)@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    This is why – if you want to keep your extensions – you wait with upgrading to a new Gnome version until your extensions support it…

    AFAIK there is no stable extension API, leading to breakage with every version upgrade

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      8 hours ago

      This is really annoying.

      I’m trying to use as little extensions as possible so I only use 4. 2 out of them haven’t upgraded to 48 yet and aren’t usable for now.

      This is especially annoying because I’m trying to respect Gnomés philosophy with my extensions…

      • qweertz (they/she)@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I get you, like “been there, done that”

        Nowadays I have like 10 if not 15 extensions (most of which are not essential to my workflow) and they make the already wonderful Gnome base just better for me personally

        this is why I usually wait with recent distribution upgrades, another upside is: it saves me a bunch of headaches too since – by the time I do upgrade – all the little bugs have usually been fixed

        • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          53 minutes ago

          Yeah I should clearly wait more before upgrading. I kind of know it’s, but I keep repeating the same mistake😅

          Still, at one point, I might try to reproduce what I love about Gnome (1 window per workspace and the ability to switch between them) in KDE.