Gnome 45 compatibility

[peterloeffler]

Gnome 45 breaks retro-compatibility with older versions by moving to ESM modules.
In order for argos to run on Gnome >= 45 there are some guidelines to stick to:
https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-45.html

Would be nice to be able to use argos also in the future!

[mwilck]

I'll look into this hopefully soon. I've started looking into GNOME 45 for the other extension I'm maintaining, projecthamster/hamster-shell-extension.

I think it's doable but not easy. Also, as soon as GNOME 45 support is added, support for all earlier GNOME version must be dropped (this is inevitable this time). So we'll likely need separate branches.

[mwilck]

I have pushed my GNOME 45 branch to WIP-gnome-45 now. It works ok-ish for me. This branch works only with GNOME shell 45. Screen shots of a few Argos programs:

Disabling and re-enabling the argos extension works as well.
Please provide feedback.

[marianrh]

I tested branch WIP-gnome-45 on the Ubuntu 23.10 beta. In my (simple) use case everything works as expected. Thank you very much for your work!

[peterloeffler]

Tested the branch on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
For me everything works.
Great! Thanks a lot for your work!

[ratboy666]

Testing on Fedora 39 beta. So far, so good. Thanks!

[Janhouse]

Seems to work fine. Please consider merging. Arch just switched to Gnome 45, I guess a lot more people will need it.

[marinierb]

Works for me on "Manjaro unstable".

Thank you so much for this!

[javadr]

Thanks @mwilck. Works on Manjaro 23.1.0 Vulcan too. (Gnome 45)

[Toby-Haynes]

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Works nicely for me - thanks for the effort getting this ported.  Thanks, Toby Haynes

[dvogel]

Works for me on both Debian Trixie and Ubuntu 23.10.

[Coda-Coda]

This works for me - thank you very much!!! I only use simple features of argos.
On NixOS (unstable channel). Gnome Shell 45.1.

[nafg]

Is this going to be mainlined?

[PaulCrisan]

Works on Manjaro. Thank you very much!

[moritztim]

For the record:
13. Dec. 2023 Dario.Lesca:

This new version https://github.com/p-e-w/argos/tree/WIP-gnome-45 work on Fedora 39 with Gnome 45.
Also the standard Fedora 39 package "gnome-shell-extension-argos-3^20230404gite2d68ea-3.fc39.noarch" work.

[moritztim]

I think it's doable but not easy. Also, as soon as GNOME 45 support is added, support for all earlier GNOME version must be dropped (this is inevitable this time). So we'll likely need separate branches.

@mwilck I can't find but I read somewhere that you can now publish separate versions on extensions.gnome.org now, in case you didn't already know

[mwilck]

@mwilck I can't find but I read somewhere that you can now publish separate versions on extensions.gnome.org now, in case you didn't already know

That has been possible for years. But we can't publish on extensions.gnome.org.
Have a look at #108, in particular @p-e-w's comments.

Here on GitHub, it's mainly a question which GNOME version the master branch should support. The majority of users here would vote for GNOME 45. But it's natural that GNOME 45 users find this issue and #150, whereas users of older GNOME versions (of LTS Linux distros) have no need to raise their voice here. If we merge #150 today, we may get a lot of angry "argos is suddenly broken" reports by these users.

OTOH, GNOME 45 has been released almost 4 months ago, so I guess we shouldn't wait much longer...

[moritztim]

Wow that sucks.

[real-or-random]

OTOH, GNOME 45 has been released almost 4 months ago, so I guess we shouldn't wait much longer...

I think #150 should be merged now.