Pop shell fails to load on GNOME 44.1

[benny-sec]

(1) Issue/Bug Description:

Similar to #1649 Pop Shell fails to load on GNOME 44.1

SyntaxError: import declarations may only appear at top level of a module

(2) Steps to reproduce (if you know):

Install on Gnome 44.1 from git repo using make local_install

(3) Expected behavior:

Should work normally

(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="2023.3"
VERSION="2023.3"
VERSION_CODENAME=kali-rolling
ID=kali
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.kali.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.kali.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.kali.org/"
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"

(5) Gnome Shell version:

GNOME Shell 44.1

(6) Pop Shell version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally):

Commit 1c5899cdd830d0b4debbf349a0fa22caaf1f864b

(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from:

locally build from master_mantic branch

(8) Monitor Setup (2 x 1080p, 4K, Primary(Horizontal), Secondary(Vertical), etc):

(9) Other Installed/Enabled Extensions:

(10) Other Notes:

Since I'm not familiar with TypeScript a very basic attempt was made to add 44.1 into metadata.json as below but the issue remained the same.

{
    "name": "Pop Shell",
    "description": "Pop Shell",
    "version": 2,
    "uuid": "pop-shell@system76.com",
    "settings-schema": "org.gnome.shell.extensions.pop-shell",
    "shell-version": [
        "44.1",
        "45"
    ]
}

Attempts has also been made by directly building from the original pull request for 1660 but still failed.

[jacobgkau]

locally build from master_mantic branch

master_mantic corresponds to Ubuntu 23.10 and supports GNOME 45+. For GNOME 3.36 through 44 support, use master_jammy.

[Benny-TalentzQ]

@jacobgkau Thank you for the clarification and it helped. Kindly excuse me for the inconvenience caused as I misinterpreted the error 'import declarations may only appear at top level of a module to be associated with the ESM switch. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. If it's not too much to ask can we please add your comment "_master_mantic corresponds to Ubuntu 23.10 and supports GNOME 45+. For GNOME 3.36 through 44 support, use masterjammy." to the Installation section of the README.md