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by vbezhenar 1837 days ago
One issue with extension is that it's not official. For example from the very extension you linked (dash-to-panel) I can find out, that Gnome 40 support issue (#1265) is not closed. Gnome 40 was released almost 3 months ago and it is default in Fedora 34. Imagine someone upgrading and breaking his workflows completely.

That would be OK for some minor adjustments, when user can live without this extension for a while. But for something as major as dash-to-panel, it should be official and updated synchronously with main project to be a proper option IMO. That's my reason to avoid this extension for now. It might be good, but I don't want to depend on it.
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trotFunky 1836 days ago
That's fair, and I agree it would be much better if it was officially supported. I'm on a rolling release distro but I had to freeze all my GNOME packages to stay on 38 because of the issue you mention.

But I chose GNOME knowing they have a tendency to break a lot of extensions with new versions, which is honestly quite a pain and something I understand many (if not most!) don't want to deal with.

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