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gnome-software package

Installing GNOME shell extensions

Bug #1809936 reported by Michal Mikolas
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Installing GNOME shell extensions is quite painfull for two reasons:

# 1) https://extensions.gnome.org is not working
The original and time-proven method of installing GNOME shell extensions is not working in Ubuntu 18.04.

Even if I install the Firefox (or Chromium) GNOME extension, webpage says:
"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled."

# 2) "Ubuntu way"
Ubuntu integrated the GNOME extensions into the "Ubuntu Software" application. But there is no posibility to sort the extensions by popularity or number of downloads. There is even no way to filter the extensions with basic fulltext.

So the "Ubuntu way" is really pain to work with.

# What you expected to happen
The best would be if the https://extensions.gnome.org/ would work in Ubuntu by default.

# Software details
I have fresh installed Ubuntu 18.04. GNOME shell 3.28.3.

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tags: added: bot-comment
Juhani Numminen (jsonic)
affects: ubuntu → gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Per-Inge (per-inge-hallin) wrote :

In a new installation of EOAN it's not possible to install gnome extensions in Chromium.
You get this error message
"Although GNOME Shell integration extension is running, native host connector is not detected." Refer documentation for instructions about installing connector."
The method advised in the instruction "GNOME Shell integration for Chrome Installation Guide"
$ sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell
isn't working.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

@Per-Inge: this is a separate issue, tracked by bug #1741074.

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