Now that we allow extensions at the lock screens, extensions
are allowed for every session mode gnome-shell would typically
change to at runtime.
This means there's little advantage to having an allowExtensions
property in the session mode definition.
This commit simplifies the code a bit by dropping the property.
Third party session modes can still lock down extensions through
gsettings if they need to.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1967>
Now extensions can specify which session modes they work in,
but specifying the login screen or unlock screen session modes in
an extensions metadata still won't work, because those session
modes disallow extensions.
This commit fixes that.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1967>
At the moment it's not realy possible to extend the login screen to do
things it doesn't have built-in support for. This means in order
to support niche use cases, those cases have to change the main
code base. For instance, oVirt and Vmware deployments want to be able
to automaticaly log in guest VMs when a user pre-authenticates through a
console on a management host. To support those use cases, we added
code to the login screen directly, even though most machines will never
be associated with oVirt or Vmware management hosts.
We also get requests from e.g. government users that need certain features
at the login screen that wouldn't get used much outside of government
deployments. For instance, we've gotten requests that a machine contains
prominently displays that it has "Top Secret" information.
All of these use cases seem like they would better handled via
extensions that could be installed in the specific deployments. The
problem is extensions only run in the user session, and get
disabled at the login screen automatically.
This commit changes that. Now extensions can specify in their metadata
via a new sessionModes property, which modes that want to run in. For
backward compatibility, if an extension doesn't specify which session
modes it works in, its assumed the extension only works in the user
session.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1967>
At the moment a session mode either allows extensions or it doesn't.
If it allows extensions, then the entire available list of
configured extensions get enabled as soon as the session mode is
entered.
Since enabling or disabling extensions is an all or nothing situation,
the code tracks whether extensions are already enabled when entering
the session mode, and if so, avoids iterating through the extension list
needlessly. It does this using a boolean named _enabled.
In the future, the extensions themselves will be given some say on
whether or not they should be enabled in a given session mode. This
means, the configured extension list may contain extensions that
shouldn't be enabled for a given session mode, and the _enabled boolean
will no longer be appropriated.
This commit drops the _enabled boolean optimization.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1967>
Since gjs moved to mozjs60, return values of int8_t arrays can
no longer be treated as strings. We originally made the conversion
conditional to keep working with the (then) stable gjs release.
That was two years ago and we require a more recent gjs nowadays,
so there's no good reason for keeping the old code path.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1407
logExtensionError() currently saves the error message by calling
toString() on the passed error. That's convenient as it allows to
pass a string instead of a "proper" error, but the result isn't
great for the common Error case: Its toString() method prefixes
the message with the error name, which usually is just "Error:".
The plain message is more suitable for displaying it to users,
so use that for Error objects.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2337
Spidermonkey caches imports, which means that uninstalling an
old extension version and installing a new one doesn't work as
expected: If the previous version was loaded, then its code will
be imported instead.
For the last couple of releases this has been a reliable source
of extension bug reports after major GNOME updates. Thankfully
chrome-gnome-shell removed its update support in favor of our
built-in support now, but users may still use older versions
or perform those actions manually, so it still makes sense to
catch this case and set an appropriate error.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1248
Whether or not an extension has errors influences the 'canChange'
property, but so far we only update it for errors that occur when
initializing the extension, not when an extension is enabled later.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1249
Removing a stylesheet from the theme will trigger a style update. There's
little point in updating the extension actors that are about to be destroyed
(hopefully), so call the extension's disable() function first.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2757
Extension that want to expose their own preferences (for example as menu
items) do that by passing their UUID to gnome-shell-extension-prefs.
But since 3.36.1 the app is optional and no longer accepts arguments on
the command line. To adjust, extensions now need to make a D-Bus call
the extensions portal, just like the app and gnome-shell.
We will add a convenience method for that purpose, so it makes
sense to share the existing code. As it's extension-related, the
extension manager looks like the right place ...
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1163
While we don't technically need the app to download and apply
updates, we do require it for notifying the user about available
updates and listing extensions with pending updates.
So instead of intransparently applying updates in the background
without the user noticing, disable updates altogether if the
Extensions app is not installed.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2346
Extension updates are installed at startup, so any errors that bubble
up uncaught will prevent the startup to complete.
While the most likely error reason was addressed in the previous commit
(pending update for a no-longer exitent extension), it makes sense to
catch any kind of corrupt updates to not interfere with shell startup.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2343
xgettext gained some support for template strings, and no longer
fails when encountering '/' somewhere between backticks.
Unfortunately its support is still buggy as hell, and it is now
silently dropping translatable strings, yay. I hate making the
code worse, but until xgettext really gets its shit together,
the only viable way forward seems to be to not use template
strings in any files listed in POTFILES.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/1014
Now that we can download, apply and display extension updates, it is time
to actually check for updates. Schedule an update check right on startup,
then every 24 hours.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1968
Now that we have a way to check for updates and download them, we
should actually apply them as well. Do this on startup before any
extensions are initialized, to make sure we don't run into any
conflicts with a previously loaded version.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/945
The current support for extension updates is half-baked at best.
We are about to change that, and implement offline updates similar
to gnome-software.
As a first step, add a hasUpdate property to the extension state
which will communicate available updates.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/945
It is true that delete is a javascript keyword, but that doesn't
prevent it from being used as method name - there are event built-in
types like Map or Set with delete() methods!
So if that hack was ever needed, this hasn't been the case for years
now; just removed the hack now.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/862
When the extension system is loaded, create the
gnome-shell-disable-extensions file in the users runtime directory. This
file is automatically removed 60s later. The sole purpose of this file
is to be consumed by the systemd units. If the file exists, the systemd
units will disable extensions when the gnome-shell fails.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/858
Since ES5, trailing commas in arrays and object literals are valid.
We generally haven't used them so far, but they are actually a good
idea, as they make additions and removals in diffs much cleaner.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/805
Since disabling an extension will lead to disabling and re-enabling all
following extensions in the list, always disable multiple extensions by
looping through the list in reverse order.
This lowers the execution time of the event handlers quite a bit if many
extensions are installed.
Thanks to Philippe Troin for identifying the problem and proposing the
initial patch to change the extension order when reloading.
Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/177https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
Only push uuids of newly enabled extensions to the `_extensionOrder`
array if enabling them was successful.
Otherwise, since `_callExtensionDisable()` doesn't remove uuids that
weren't successfully enabled from the array, those extensions get added
to the array multiple times when they're disabled and enabled.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
It's currently possible to circumvent the `sessionMode.allowExtensions`
property: For already enabled extensions one can call reloadExtension
via DBus, for new extensions it's possible by adding the extension to
the enabled-extensions gsettings key and setting the
disable-extension-version-validation key (which triggers a reload of
`this._enabledExtensions`) and then calling reloadExtension via DBus.
So to enforce `allowExtensions` while still allowing to update
extensions and keeping the extensionSystem synced with various gsettings
keys, replace the checks for `this._enabled` with simple checks for
`Main.sessionMode.allowExtensions` inside `_callExtensionInit()` and
`_callExtensionEnable()`.
The remaining checks for `this._enabled` are only small optimizations to
prevent running code on irrelevant sessionMode updates.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
Right now we're only handling added sessionMode extensions correctly on
sessionMode updates, also handle the other case and disable removed
sessionMode extensions on sessionMode updates.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
Instead of only logging a message that loading the extension stylesheet
failed and silently returning we should use `logExtensionError` for that
instead. This also sets the extension state to ERROR and makes sure we
don't try to enable it again.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
If the extension doesn't exist in the `this._extensions` Map, we'd try
to access `extension.dir` on undefined/null. So set the `dir` variable
after checking if `extension` is defined.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/96
Extensions might emit JS errors explicitly or implicitly, however GNOME
Shell doesn't present any stack trace for those making them quite hard
to debug.
Make this easier by logging errors with logError() whichs includes the
stack dump.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/700
While we aren't using those destructured variables, they are still useful
to document the meaning of those elements. We don't want eslint to keep
warning about them though, so mark them accordingly.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/627
Trying to disable an extension that is enabled by the session mode
currently has no effect, which is clearly confusing. We could update
the various extension UIs to reflect that via sensitivity, but being
unable to configure extensions based on which session the user picked
at login isn't obvious either.
So instead, add a 'disabled-extensions' gsettings key to list extensions
that should not be enabled which takes precedence over 'enabled-extensions'
and can be used to disable session mode extensions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
Now that extension loading and the extensions map are no longer shared
between the gnome-shell and gnome-shell-extension-prefs processes, we
can move both into the ExtensionManager which makes much more sense
conceptually.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
Whether or not an extension can be enabled/disabled depends on various
factors: Whether the extension is in error state, whether user extensions
are disabled and whether the underlying GSettings keys are writable.
This is complex enough to share the logic, so add it to the extension
properties that are exposed over D-Bus.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
The existing 'ExtensionStatusChanged' signal has a fixed set of parameters,
which means we cannot add additional state without an API break. Deprecate
it in favor of a new 'ExtensionStateChanged' signal which addresses this
issue by taking the full serialized extension as parameter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
Extensions are currently enabled or disabled by directly changing the
list in the 'enabled-extensions' GSettings key. As we will soon add
an overriding 'disabled-extensions' key as well, it makes sense to
offer explicit API for enabling/disabling to avoid duplicating the
logic.
For the corresponding D-Bus API, the methods were even mentioned in
the GSettings schema, albeit unimplemented until now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
While public methods to enable/disable extensions make sense for an
extension manager, the existing ones are only used internally. Make
them private and rename them, so that we can re-use the current
names for more useful public methods.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
The extension system started out as a set of simple functions, but
gained more state later, and even some hacks to emit signals without
having an object to emit them on.
There is no good reason for that weirdness, so rather than imitating an
object, wrap the existing system into a real ExtensionManager object.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
It makes sense to keep extension-related enums in the same module instead
of spreading them between ExtensionSystem and ExtensionUtils.
More importantly, this will make the type available to the extensions-prefs
tool (which runs in a different process and therefore only has access to
a limited set of modules).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789852
