Support Gnome 45

[Lucki]

With Gnome 45 the legacy import system will be dropped completely. Currently, in v3 there are still some legacy imports in the code. We have to check and adapt the remaining bits:

• https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/
• https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-45.html#port-extensions-to-gnome-shell-45

[crashbit666]

Yeah, I'm waiting for gnome 45 support too.

[Lucki]

I'll take a look at it when it arrives in my distros repositories. I haven't seen anything meaningful pushed since the last merge so I hope there won't clash too much with his local changes.

[Lucki]

This is actually more annoying than expected. The fact that the new resource loading path is different for the background context and the preference window context makes it unnecessary hard to reuse modules across both contexts. /rant

[erickwill]

Guys, is there any way to install this extension in Gnome45? Is there any updated repository with the proper changes to make it work again? Thanks

[ifl0w]

@erickwill your best bet right now is the PR from @Lucki here (it should just works): https://github.com/ifl0w/RandomWallpaperGnome3/pull/176

Unfortunately, I am not able to work on the extension till end of November but I hope to release a new version ASAP in December. Sorry for the inconvenience 😔 ..

[erickwill]

@erickwill your best bet right now is the PR from @Lucki here (it should just works): #176

Unfortunately, I am not able to work on the extension till end of November but I hope to release a new version ASAP in December. Sorry for the inconvenience 😔 ..

In the meantime, I wonder if could you merge these changes made by @Lucki since, as others like me, many love your extension and would like to use it.

[ifl0w]

@erickwill sorry for the late answer!

Just merged Lucki's PR into the WIP_v3.0.0 branch. Feel free to check it out! FYI, I plan to move the WIP branch to development in the next few weeks.

[Draky50110]

Thanks a lot.

Tried to download code fro 3.0 branch and putting src dir in extension directory but it doesn't not work. Will wait for official release :p

[erickwill]

@erickwill sorry for the late answer!

Just merged Lucki's PR into the WIP_v3.0.0 branch. Feel free to check it out! FYI, I plan to move the WIP branch to development in the next few weeks.

Thanks! Looking forward for the final version! :)

[skyghis]

Just merged Lucki's PR into the WIP_v3.0.0 branch. Feel free to check it out! FYI, I plan to move the WIP branch to development in the next few weeks.

Thanks for the merge. Any news for v3.0.0 release ?

[ifl0w]

@skyghis Pretty close to done and I want to create a release soon (maybe I'll wait for #187 ). I didn't find a lot of time to work on this and I'm sorry for the delayed release.

Also keep in mind, even when I finally release a version here on GH, the extension will have to go through a review on the Gnome website as well. So getting a release on the gnome extensions website might take some additional time.

[ifl0w]

I just created the release for v3.0.0. :tada: Version 3.0.0 supports gnome-shell 45. Therefore, I'm closing this issue! Support for older versions was dropped with this version. Thanks to all contributors for their help and time!

The release will hopefully land on extensions.gnome.org in the next few days/weeks, depending on how long the review takes and whether changes are requested.

[Draky50110]

I confirm it working with Ubuntu 23.10 + Gnome Shell 45.2.

Tried it downloading and extracting directly last release in .local/share/gnome....